2. Verb. (third-person singular of fling) ¹
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Definition of Flings
1. fling [v] - See also: fling
Lexicographical Neighbors of Flings
Literary usage of Flings
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Anatomy of Melancholy: What it Is, with All the Kinds, Causes, Symptoms by Robert Burton (1880)
"... flings away his own weapons, makes a cord to bind himself, and pulls a beam
upon his own head." MEMB. VL • Against Envy, Livor, Emulation, Hatred, ..."
2. The Complete Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott by Walter Scott (1900)
"... Erin, boast them ! tameless, frank, him flings known, Rough nature's children,
humorous as and free, In kindness warm and fierce in danger she: And HE, ..."
3. The Æneid of Virgil by Virgil (1910)
"... when angry Jove flings forth tempestuous and boundless rain, And splits the
bellied clouds in darkened air. The brothers Pandarus and ..."
4. Diary and Correspondence of Samuel Pepys, F.R.S.: Secretary to the Admiralty by Samuel Pepys, Richard Griffin Braybrooke (1848)
"... which makes me mad to see them bite at the stone, and not at the hand that
flings it. Thence to the Duke of York's playhouse, and there saw the last act ..."
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