be'n

But tonight I be'n a-stanin 'in de dark alley ever sence night come, waitin' for you to go by.

Pudd'nhead Wilson 1955

"Dad blame dat revival, I wisht it had a be'n put off till tomorrow!"

Pudd'nhead Wilson 1955

"En dat po 'boy dat you's be'n a-kickin' en a-cuffin 'today is Percy Driscoll's son en yo' _marster_ --"

Pudd'nhead Wilson 1955

Dat man dat bought me ain't a bad man; he's good enough, as planters goes; en if he could a had his way I'd a be'n a house servant in his fambly en be'n comfortable: but his wife she was a Yank, en not right down good lookin ', en she riz up agin me straight off; so den dey sent me out to de quarter mongst de common fiel han's.

Pudd'nhead Wilson 1955

'Dolphus he skeered me nigh to death wif his stuttering story as how my chile be'n in de mill-pond.

The Chums of Scranton High Hugh Morgan's Uphill Fight Donald Ferguson

He'd be'n all right only he got mixed up with a string o 'lumber that was a-comin' down, an 'so he had to go to the hospital.

The Spinner's Book of Fiction Various

"I don't often remember all this," says she, after a little, "but las 'spring it all flushed over me; an' w'en I heerd heow Emerline'd be'n sick, -- I hear a gre't many things ye do 'no' nothin 'abeout, children, -- I thought I'd tell her, fust time I see her."

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 40, February, 1861 Various

I'll see that they ain't a scratch on it; an 'you can put it in the warehouse, an' they'll never know it's be'n away. '

The Spinner's Book of Fiction Various

Here's Jim Cal be'n rarin 'around here like a chicken with its head off' caze Huldy run away with Creed Bonbright, and here

Judith of the Cumberlands Alice MacGowan

If you'd be'n here when they started, likely they'd be'n glad to accommodate you.

The Rim of the Desert Ada Woodruff Anderson