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Definition of Soarings
1. soaring [n] - See also: soaring
Lexicographical Neighbors of Soarings
Literary usage of Soarings
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Christianity and Modern Infidelity: Their Relative Intellectual Claims Compared by Williams Morgan (1859)
"... from the humblest parable to the highest soarings of prophecy, to be conscious
of this intention, infers to my mind more than human wisdom. ..."
2. The Love Letters of Thomas Carlyle and Jane Welsh by Thomas Carlyle, Jane Welsh Carlyle (1908)
"The e^ie itself must gather sticks to build its nest, and in its highest soarings
keep an eye upon its creeping prey. Once I thought this a sad arrangement; ..."
3. Minor Poets of the Caroline Period by George Saintsbury (1906)
"Thee, noble soul! whose early flights are far \J Sublimer than old eagles' soarings
are, Who light'st love's dying torch with purer fire, And breath'st new ..."
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