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I believe in drivin’ (Tolerate this!) the biggest car I can.
Think Progress » “Bush Was Right!” — The New Hit Single Ready to Rock a Generation 2005
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I seed you w'en I's tudder en 'de fiel; I seed you go ober dar on de bottom, an' I hearn you, too, a hollerin ', an' drivin 'dem ar cattle up dis way, jis when you knowed dey all was comin' 'cross.
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They do a powerful sight o 'drivin' round the country this time
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 31, October, 1873 Various
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"I'm plumb equal to ridin 'down to Landson's an' drivin 'one of them stakes through under his short ribs."
Dennison Grant: a Novel of To-day Robert J. C. Stead 1919
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An 'bar the doors wi' drivin 'snaw, though in this last case it is skilfully used to introduce the theme.
Robert Burns How To Know Him William Allan Neilson 1907
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Soldiers know when the right kind of a man is holdin 'the reins an' drivin '' em.
The Guns of Shiloh A Story of the Great Western Campaign 1890
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That's the worst o 'drivin' in these places where the pretty girls make a habit of comin 'down to the bridge to see the fun.
Homespun Tales Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin 1889
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Janey wuz sittin 'up high under the awnin' drivin ', an' Charley Winn stood beside her, a-tyin 'up the bundles very swift.
Dialect Tales 1883
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"Den Brer Rabbit kick up a racket, like he wer 'drivin' sumpin 'out, en Mr. Buzzard he rush' roun 'fer ter ketch de squir'l, en Brer Rabbit, he dash out, he did, en he des fly fer home."
Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings: The Folk-Lore of the Old Plantation. By Joel Chandler Harris. With Illustrations by Frederick S. Church and James H. Moser Frederick Stuart 1881
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"Who'n the name o 'John Rodgers ar' drivin 'this omnybust, pilgrim?
Deadwood Dick, The Prince of the Road or, The Black Rider of the Black Hills Edward L. Wheeler
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