Crossword-Solution: NOSINGS 7 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 8

Then began a patient search by outraged mothers, a series of mournful quests that were destined to continue far into the night; endless nosings and sniffings and caressings, which would keep up until each cow had found her own, until each calf was butting its head against maternal ribs and gaining that consolation which it craved.

Anita put her arm about his neck and rubbed her cheek against his satin coat, Gamechick receiving her caresses with dignity, as a cavalry charger should, and not with the tender bondings and nosings for lumps of sugar, like Pretty Maid.

From the unexpected passage of this up-bound inspector, going out to his station at the agency, and his officious nosings, it was believed by many that any liquor on board would not have a chance to get through.

The unattainable greatness of Life and our own puny reachings forth for that greatness--Life's glory and the indignities of the miserable livers of it--Life's majesty and the nosings and burrowings of the fallen heirs to that majesty--all these shortcomings were reconciled in the song; and what man would be, that for an hour he was.

The previous plates have shown stairs with close strings--that is, the outside strings are housed out for the treads and risers, in the same way as the wall string, and the top of the string is kept above the nosings, and a capping is fixed on the top of it, and the balusters are cut on, or let into this capping, according to the class of work.