He goes sorrowfully to his work, and bends over his seam with many shakings of the head.
And the answer too will come,--in a horror of great darkness, and shakings of the world, and a cup of trembling which all the nations shall drink.
Political Power; and with the shakings of thy horse-hair wig shake principalities and dynasties, like a very Jove with his ambrosial curls!
Subrosa, having had his tantrum, contented himself with sundry head-shakings and snorts.
If head-shakings and flattened ears meant anything, Rosa and Subrosa were two disgruntled pintos that morning.
Greetings are exchanged on the flight of steps, bows, shakings of hands, introductions.
When the Japanese government, desiring to adopt Western knowledge, invited to its shores bodies of men to act as its instructors, the attention of the newcomers was naturally attracted to the frequent shakings of the ground.
Indeed who can bear up, and who Can from these shakings run?
The hundred times repeated argument, the old doubt brought up again, all afresh with shakings of the head, the stolid little compliments to her as a woman so much superior to her sex, her masculine understanding (good lack!
That is usually a vain attempt; for the creature that sleeps sound and secure through a gale in the tree-tops has no concern for the ponderousshakings of a bear.
In the cathedral church of Saint Giles at Edinburgh the congregation had been told that "such shakings as these were the shakings of God, and without such shakingshis Church was not in use to be settled.
The majority repeated the name with ominous shakings of bearded chins.
The ship was hove-to, a boat lowered, and the boatswain, who jumped into her and managed to pick up the dog before he reached the other animal, avowed roundly thatShakings had jumped overboard to save the pig.
Mrs Chick, with energetic shakings of her own head from time to time, continued to hold forth, as if in defiance of somebody.
Shakings or decided chills frequently are present with the rise of fever and when the fever declines there may be profuse sweating.
The shakings persist for some days, the hallucinations disappear gradually, and the appetite returns.
Unfavorable symptoms now include low muttering, delirium, shakings of the muscles, twitching of the tendons, grasping at imaginary things, lung complications and heart weakness.
One waits for the desired bed of coals, of course, while ominous head shakings and rumblings from the kitchen proclaim that the rest of the dinner is done, is dried up, is ruined.
He congenitally dislikes old buildings and will point out all defects with ominous headshakings and subtle suggestions for new building.
But when matter lies on it—when air, even in its rarest condition, lies on it—its proper movement is damped and some of its quick shakings that are light, slow down to the obscure vibrations of heat.
These shakings and vibrations would go forth from a particle which excited them in every direction along the sheet.
It is evident that just as the particles are affected by the vibration and shaking of the sheet of metal on which we suppose them, so they might in turn possibly affect the sheet of metal and cause vibrations and shakings in it.
These shakings were so severe that they produced a deep fissure in the ground in France.
The shakingswere so strong that several objects on the vessel were thrown down.
While the buildings in the city were being overthrown by the violent shakings of the earth, a multitude sought the quay as a flat place where they could not be injured by the falling buildings.
This, of course, would rule out all such shakings as are caused by bodies striking the outer surface of the earth.
Particularly large was the loss of life in the churches whither hundreds hastened for refuge when the shakings of the earth began, for most of these buildings fell and buried the worshippers.
I am sure you will acknowledge that any force capable of causing great cracks or fissures in the earth's crust, must, while doing this, have produced violent shakings of the earth.
Amid shakings and tremblings of the earth's crust, known as earthquakes, there are occasionally heard noises like the explosion of huge guns.
Throughout the night the appalling sounds continued and were accompanied by shakings of the earth sufficiently strong to shake the houses violently.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "shakings" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
