Looking out once more over the familiar desert, he felt the searchings of his conscience stilled by the manifest certainty that it was for this that Providence had been reserving him through all these years of labour and of sorrow for this!
He committed his thoughts to a diary, weighing scrupulously his every motive, examining with relentless searchings into the depths of his heart.
If the text of Scripture was to be submitted to the searchings of human reason, how could the question of its inspiration escape the same tribunal?
There were those to whom even the mysteries of infallibility caused somesearchings of heart.
But presently there were searchings of heart over the anterior question as to the constituency of the church.
Those of the composer's admirers who "always thought he was a heathen Chinee" may here find matter for searchings of heart.
Behind the now inevitable struggle for a reform of the House of Lords, there would be great heart searchings and educational endeavour.
These continual searchings of my mind are leading me into the desert.
She left off all searchings and inquiries, but became very tender.
I think, my dear," she said to her niece, "that all these searchings after wealth and fortune are not of God.
To some minds it may not seem to follow that it was well to resist it by war, and indeed at the time, as often happens, people took up arms with greater searchings of heart upon the right side than upon the wrong.
Then in the course of 1841 Speed himself began to contemplate marriage, and Speed himself had painful searchings of heart, and Lincoln's turn came to show a sureness of perception in his friend's case that he wholly lacked in his own.
As a matter of fact, Lois was too deeply sunk into thoughts of her own to have any attention to spare for other people's searchings of heart.
Her heart-searchings being of another nature, she was doing in thought what she had done when in the afternoon she had gone to her room and shut the door.
She made him feel like a man signaling in the dark or speaking across a vacuum through which his voice couldn't carry, while he was conscious at the same time of searchings of heart at making the attempts to do either.
The superstitious practices which prevail in the Eastern Church, as well as in that of the West, cost him many keen and bitter “searchings of heart.
There was no mental conflict, there were no keen and bitter searchings of heart.
Such searchings of heart were necessarily rendered more severe and acute by Mr. Newman's act.
When the soul is shut up along with the Holy One of Israel, there are great searchings of heart.
If you are one, there is much in this subject which ought to lead you to searchings of heart.
If his conscience is not utterly seared, it should stir in him great searchings of heart.
A passage of Scripture like this parable ought surely to raise in many an one great searchings of heart.
Why had he spoken and put an end to their quiet friendship, and left her to such heart-searchings all by herself?
I'll fetch him down, for I ain't going to have no more searchingsin my house.
Having company" is one of those incidents of life which in all circles, high or low, cause more or less searchings of heart.
The searchings are then always carried on with vigour throughout, and the labours that are thus never made laborious ever retain their attractiveness in the future.
Such occurrences, however, we must regard as accidental and comparatively rare, and therefore we confine our searchings for ova to the food plants of the species we require.
He had been accustomed to her searchings for interesting abstractions for years.
Even among Conservatives there were searchings of heart.
They are making every effort to find out what it is, but the bacillus is shy, and refuses to respond to the searchings of the microscope.
There were frantic searchings for a monkey wrench all that night, while the article lay snugly bestowed between the mattresses of a maiden who looked as if she might be thinking of the angels.
Speaking of patience; for example, one of the local companies went steadily on with its deep borings and searchings without show of gold or a penny of reward for eleven years --then struck it, and became suddenly rich.
Take it whole-heartedly, Andy; don't have any regrets, any searchings of heart.
And he could now enter on it with no searchings of his own heart.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "searchings" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
