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- noun Plural form of
trotting .
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Examples
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Fiscal restraint, civil and human rights, privacy concerns … all have fallen by the wayside, save for occasional tartings up and trottings out during empty-rhetoric exercises.
Waldo Jaquith - Shall we require all children to eat their peas in order to have dessert? 2008
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There were big cases, political fights, globe trottings, and new friends, all of which have unlimited potentialities for numerous chapters.
The Honorable Peter Stirling and What People Thought of Him Ford, Paul L 1894
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There were big cases, political fights, globe trottings, and new friends, all of which have unlimited potentialities for numerous chapters.
The Honorable Peter Stirling and What People Thought of Him Paul Leicester Ford 1883
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The horse is a closely sympathetic beast, and will make his turns, and do his trottings, and comport himself generally in strict unison with the pulsation of his master's heart.
The Belton Estate Anthony Trollope 1848
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“I know of old what your trottings are, Desmond; and what
Castle Richmond 2004
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The horse is a closely sympathetic beast, and will make his turns, and do his trottings, and comport himself generally in strict unison with the pulsation of his master’s heart.
The Belton Estate 2004
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"Well, Fröken Jensen was absolutely the ugliest girl I have seen in all my globe-trottings ....
The Grey Wig: Stories and Novelettes Israel Zangwill 1895
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"I know of old what your trottings are, Desmond; and what a ditch or two means.
Castle Richmond Anthony Trollope 1848
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