bellowsing

‘I don’t know how you CAN sleep, with the wind a bellowsing and roaring about you, making the tiles fly like a pack of cards,’ said John; ‘but no matter for that.

Barnaby Rudge 2007

"Well then tell me about 'locusing,' and 'bellowsing.'"

Six Years in the Prisons of England A Merchant - Anonymous

'I don't know how you CAN sleep, with the wind a bellowsing and roaring about you, making the tiles fly like a pack of cards,' said John; 'but no matter for that.

Barnaby Rudge Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 1892

'I don't know how you CAN sleep, with the wind a bellowsing and roaring about you, making the tiles fly like a pack of cards,' said John; 'but no matter for that.

Barnaby Rudge: a tale of the Riots of 'eighty Charles Dickens 1841

‘Where have ye been, ye ill-farren, useless bowdikite!’ said she, as she swashed the dishclout about my lugs, and I run into the fusty corner they used to cram me into to roost; but while the good wife was grumbling and bellowsing away at the fire, and old eighteenpence lay snorting in bed, I packed up my duds and bundled away to the beach, neck and crop.

Three Weeks in the Downs, or Conjugal Fidelity Rewarded: exemplified in the Narrative of Helen and Edmund Anonymous 1829

"Locusing is putting a chap to sleep with chloroform, and bellowsing is putting his light out.

Six Years in the Prisons of England A Merchant - Anonymous

"I don't know how you can sleep, with the wind a bellowsing and roaring about you, making the tiles fly like a pack of cards," said John; "but no matter for that.

Barnaby Rudge 1840