Reeling
['ri:liŋ]
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Reel
Inputed by Frances
Examples
- We had to allow for the reeling of the ship to the right or the left. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The one staid foundation of her home, of her idea of her beloved father, seemed reeling and rocking. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- He lay still in this strange, horrific reeling for some time, purely unconscious. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- By July the tide was turning and the Germans were reeling back. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- There's but one thing steady and quiet i' all this reeling world, and, reason or no reason, I'll cling to that. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- Ringwood) passes reeling by, holding six basins. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
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