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They answered, “O our lord, we are foreign merchants and far from our homes, who arrived here this day and were out a-walking to-night, and behold, ye came up and these men laid hands on us and brought us to thy presence; and this is all our story.”
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If one said, Let us go a-walking into the fields they went all.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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If one said, Let us go a-walking into the fields they went all.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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And I saw the boss come a-walking down along that factory line,
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When a well-known, famous drover came a-walking up to me
Buffalo Skinners 1996
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Flake went to walk it, and they come back through the woods a-walking, him and Ford.
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I didn't know whether I was a-walking or a-running.
Oral History Interview with Jefferson M. Robinette, 1977 July. Interview H-41. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007). By Jefferson M. Robinette Jefferson M. Robinette 1977
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I didn't know whether I was a-walking or a-running.
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I thought I saw my future bride a-walking up the street
Nadine Chuck Berry 1975
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I thought I saw my future bride a-walking up the street
Nadine Chuck Berry 1975
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