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"It's Sorensen an 'Peabody," some one cried, "a-throwin 'the whip into the dawgs an' headin 'down river!"
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Roberts, there, dead, too, an 'headin' for the sharks -- an 'what for?
CHAPTER XLII 2010
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"Best make it fast -- the cap'n is already thinkin 'about pointin' up an 'headin' out."
Ride Proud, Rebel! Andre Norton 1958
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Roberts, there, dead, too, an 'headin' for the sharks -- an 'what for?
Chapter 42 1914
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Here I secured a position luckily, and I had an experience at "layin 'headin'" which I shall never forget, and which forms as integral a part of my mental and moral training as any other thing I ever did or any book I ever studied.
Documenting the American South: Southern Experience in 19-th Century America 1911
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Then, after a moment, he added: "Hasn't it seemed to you that John Kendrick was kind of -- well, kind of headin 'up towards -- towards --"
Thankful's Inheritance Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907
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"Where y 'headin' f'r now?" persisted Bradley, as Kate heard the shuffle of a horse's feet.
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"It's Sorensen an 'Peabody," some one cried, "a-throwin 'the whip into the dawgs an' headin 'down river!"
Smoke Bellew Jack London 1896
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"pitchin 'headin'," could shoot the short boards up through the air to the one on the stack who was "layin 'headin'."
Documenting the American South: Southern Experience in 19-th Century America 1911
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a polygon of the pieces of "headin"'on the ground and then continuing round and round as the stack grew higher, up to fifty or more feet, or as high as the one on the ground who was
Documenting the American South: Southern Experience in 19-th Century America 1911
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