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swayings

n. (plural of swaying English)

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Of all the steps and runs, of all the whimsical turns and twirlings, of all the rhythmic swayings and dips commanded that season by such blarings as were the barbaric product, loud and wild, of the Jazz Louies and their half-breed bunches, the thin and sallow youth was a master.

The seven glows in their lazy swayings and bobbings had mightily suggested to him the heads of large cobras raised up to strike.

Yet they could also respond to visible wavelengths, and thus they could watch both the swayings of the overhanging palm fronds and citrus branches that tempered the bright sunlight and the movements of tree limbs and clouds and sun beyond the glass.

The swayings of the creeper, however, gradually became shorter and shorter.

Hark ye, lad — fleet interlacings of the limbs — lithe swayings — coyings — flutterings!