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heavings

noun as in panting

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As he spoke, the forest maid often felt the hidden talisman rise and fall with the heavings of her tender bosom.

Here the strata have been subjected to repeated faultings, heavings, tiltings, and lava-flows.

I laid my head upon her bosom, and felt, the heavings of her heart.

They can realise what it is when women go down choking in horrible tangles and heavings of draperies.

The setting sun, casting its rays across the mighty heavings of the sea, glorified a lovely face.

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On this page you'll find 31 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to heavings, such as: gasping, heaving, null, breathless, and short-winded.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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