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  • I heard tell there was a feller of your name runnin 'some gold - brick scheme at Rogerses', an 'I cal'lated I'd come over an' see you.

    The Voyage of the Hoppergrass Edmund Lester Pearson 1908

  • Whenever I try to think of God as a spirit, I can see Hen Miller all wrapped up in a sheet an 'runnin' us girls.

    CHAPTER II 2010

  • An 'you started me to drinkin', baby, an 'runnin' from town to town

    Big Maceo Merriweather Lyrics 2009

  • Next thing we know, Hillary's swaggerin 'like Dubya, talkin' 'bout a'runnin 'and a'dodgin' them bullets in Tuzla; she's tough as any GOP warrior (and as fast and loose with the facts).

    Linda Hansen: O Bubba, Where Art Thou? 2008

  • "An 'sure, can't ye keep warm by jumpin' on the sleds an 'runnin' after the dogs?" cried an Irishman.

    THE KING OF MAZY MAY: A STORY OF THE KLONDIKE 1993

  • "Got so used to it, when time comes I can go back t 'runnin' a real tavern again-well, I might not."

    The Robin And The Kestrel Lackey, Mercedes 1993

  • Dey have to work all day an 'all night, ebery day han' runnin ', wid chains' round dar legs.

    Bond and Free: A Tale of the South 1984

  • "Bress your heart, honey, I knowed you'd come; Mammy, yere, 'lowed you wouldn't, 'cause you's ober tudder day; I's gittin' so down-spirited, sittin 'yere all day, an' all night han 'runnin', 'peared jis like I want to look at you an' see you."

    Bond and Free: A Tale of the South 1984

  • But I'm stiff in m 'legs, an' when it comes to a spot o 'runnin', I ain't no gal in m 'teens, as it were.

    Here Abide Monsters Norton, Andre 1973

  • One leg stood still, while de tother kep 'runnin'.

    Negro Folk Rhymes Wise and Otherwise: With a Study Thomas Washington Talley

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