cryin

Wife she ain't got so yet thet she can look at it without sort o 'cryin' -- thess the look of it seems to bring back the figure o 'the little feller, ez he helt his ground, single-handed, at that gradj'atin' that day.

Sonny, a Christmas Guest Ruth McEnery Stuart 1886

Naebody has ca'd me by that name sin 'my mither pairted wi' me at the stage coach road, and she was fair chokit wi 'cryin', and when I cudna see her mair for the bush aboon the burn, I could aye hear her bleatin 'like a lamb -- an' it was the gloamin '.

St. Cuthbert's Robert E. Knowles

Now she come down one mornin 'cryin', 'cause she'd been dreamin ''bout white horses, an' she was sure she should hear some friend was dead.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 25, November, 1859 Various

When de last breath was done gone, I went back out in de yard and told de other Niggers, and dere was sho 'cryin' and prayin ''mongst 'em, 'cause all of 'em loved Marster.

Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 3 Work Projects Administration

Warrenton too, an 'de mammies would be sold from deir chilluns an' dare would be a whole heap o 'cryin' an 'mou'nin' 'bout hit.

Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves, North Carolina Narratives, Part 1 Various

Yorkey, wid his arrums round th 'neck av me -- as if he wud shtill dhrag me on .... an' cryin 'upon th' mother that bore um ....

The Luck of the Mounted A Tale of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police Ralph S. Kendall

I gave her food and comforted her, an 'tended the baby, while she told me about hersilf, with an occasional spell o' cryin 'an' a wild, weird expression on her face that gave me bad dreams fer many a night.

Nancy McVeigh of the Monk Road 1921

Den she 'cryin', Victorine, for she's knowin 'w'at it mean --

Humour of the North 1909

Your wife wasn't in an 'so I thinks that maybe here there'd be more quiet, 'cause my little brother, you know, he was sick anyhow an' cryin 'all the time.

The Dramatic Works of Gerhart Hauptmann Volume II Gerhart Hauptmann 1904

I can't forget one Mrs. Grasset I worked for, ma'am, an 'her that miserable an' cryin 'all th' time, just because I had one of me bad timper spells.

The Cheerful Smugglers Ellis Parker Butler 1903