What is "dodgings"

Usage examples of "dodgings".

Again and again they disappeared and came to view, now on one side and now on the other, until our train seemed to be bewitched, making frantic efforts by dodgings and turnings, now through tunnels and now over high pieces of trestle, to escape the inevitable attraction that was gravitating it down to the hospitable lights at the bottom of the well.

He had not seen it again during his dodgings, but he doubted that the creature had been slain by the Pili, or by anybody else.

If you have ever seen a bird chasing a butterfly, and if you can imagine a more than gigantic bird chasing two perfectly insignificant butterflies among white mountains, then you can just begin to imagine the twistings, dodgings, hairbreadth escapes, and the wild zigzag rush of that flight home.

After all the hates and dodgings and plans, the world was not spinning in front of him: it was only slowly going black.