knowin

Yeh know, she's a fine, well-dressed woman, an 'knowin' where we was goin 'I wondered' ow she'd feel abou 'clamberin' over boulders an 'sleepin' in caves an 'tha', bu 'she never complained once.'

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix Rowling, J. K. 2003

I mean, we'd nae way o 'knowin' if it was wan o 'the guns we'd knackered, or whit effect it would have.'

A Big Boy Did It and Ran Away Brookmyre, Christopher, 1968- 2001

An 'knowin' t 'much might spile a boy for bein' a Secesher.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 51, January, 1862 Various

"What's the good o 'knowin' what makes it, when you can't stop it?"

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 45, July, 1861 Various

I cyant think how I could a-been so careless-like, an 'knowin' all de endurin 'time dat I boun' fer ter be a widder.

Peggy Stewart: Navy Girl at Home

"An 'knowin' that Mr. Carroll was playin 'chess with ye, chief -- an' him naturally interested in such things -- I hopped right in."

Midnight Octavus Roy Cohen 1925

"Delight's buckle was broke an 'knowin' the best place to send it, he mailed it up to town."

Flood Tide Sara Ware Bassett 1920

Nohow, Peter, it aren't natral -- woman tak's a lot o 'knowin'.

The Broad Highway Jeffery Farnol 1915

Us having the best that's to be had, an 'knowin' we can have it to the end of our lives, that's what it's come to, tha knows.

T. Tembarom 1913

Never thee stop believin 'in th' Big Good Thing an 'knowin' th 'world's full of it -- an' call it what tha 'likes.

The Secret Garden 1911