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Definition of Jarrings
1. jarring [n] - See also: jarring
Lexicographical Neighbors of Jarrings
Literary usage of Jarrings
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Winthrop's Journal, "History of New England," 1630-1649 by John Winthrop, James Kendall Hosmer (1908)
"... he could not but bewail the great differences and jarrings which were upon
all occasions, among the magistrates, and between them and the deputies; ..."
2. The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature by Tobias George Smollett (1802)
"These disputes are to literature what electioneering broils are to our home
politics— what the jarrings of the petty Italian states and Swiss bailiwicks are ..."
3. A Year's Journey Through the Pais Bas; Or, Austrian Netherlands by Philip Thicknesse (1786)
"... the rubs and jarrings of this tumultuous life" of which I have had an ample
mare, that he mould have enabled me to bear up ..."
4. Afoot Through the Kashmir Valleys by Marion Doughty (1901)
"... and jarrings—Wild ponies and fair ways—A gentleman in khaki discusses the
empire with one of the holy army—The seamy side of an Indian summer—Homeward ..."
5. Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford, to Sir Horace Mann: His Britannic by Horace Walpole (1844)
"Some say, it was impossible—that is not your business nor mine; there are certainly
great jarrings in their army—but the worst is (I mean to me) there is ..."
6. The End of the World by Max Wilhelm Meyer (1908)
"... earthquakes have not only been noticed by means of sensitive instruments but
even felt as perceptible jarrings over a still larger area. ..."
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