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  • noun Plural form of bellowing.

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Examples

  • How else could I grow, when I served the drink to the bellowings of drunkards and to the skalds singing of Hialli, and the bold Hogni, and of the Niflung's gold, and of Gudrun's revenge on Atli when she gave him the hearts of his children and hers to eat while battle swept the benches, tore down the hangings raped from southern coasts, and, littered the feasting board with swift corpses.

    Chapter 17 2010

  • And with loud bellowings breaks the yielding skies

    Steve Bell on Rupert Murdoch and David Cameron 2011

  • An exchange of quick blows of wrathful bellowings as the man was attacked by the aroused mob.

    "Power" by Harl Vincent, part 7 Johnny Pez 2010

  • Transported beyond grammar by its kindled ire, it spoke in unknown tongues, and vented unintelligible bellowings, more like an ancient oracle than the modern oracle it is admitted on all hands to be.

    Reprinted Pieces 2007

  • Dart follows dart; lance, lance; loud bellowings speak his woes.

    Childe Harold's Pilgrimage 2007

  • For instance, he related that one day when he was at work, the devil looked in at the little window, and tried to tempt him to lead a life of idle pleasure; whereupon, having his pincers in the fire, red hot, he seized the devil by the nose, and put him to such pain, that his bellowings were heard for miles and miles.

    A Child's History of England 2007

  • Out of the car came wrathful bellowings: “Fainted, she has!” and then:

    The War in the Air Herbert George 2006

  • If they had not done justice to his erotic bellowings and gesticulations, he stuck in, in a large inky scrawl, all and more than they had omitted.

    The War in the Air Herbert George 2006

  • He attributed to it characteristics similar to his own, and believed its roars and bellowings were merely counterparts of the curses he had bestowed upon it.

    The Conquering Sword of Conan Howard, Robert E. 2005

  • He attributed to it characteristics similar to his own, and saw in its wrath a counterpart of his rages, in its roars and bellowings merely reptilian equivalents to the curses he had bestowed upon it.

    The Conquering Sword of Conan Howard, Robert E. 2005

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