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  • They used to tell how she stood and hollered for two hours one day because the housekeeper wouldn't let her put her hand into a kittle o 'boilin' lye soap.

    Aunt Jane of Kentucky Eliza Calvert Hall

  • It was jus 'boilin', bakin ', an' bubblin '-- worse a heap than anythin' we'd had in the islands.

    Humorous Ghost Stories Dorothy Scarborough 1906

  • He stuffs her birds for her too, for nothink, an 'once he stuffed a tom-cat for' er, w'ich she was uncommon fond of, but he couldn't make much of a job of it, 'cause it died through a kittle o 'boilin' water tumblin 'on its back, which took off most of the' air. "

    Post Haste 1859

  • Maybe they nosed in the kitchen, found the spaghetti boilin.

    Come Again No More Jack Todd 2010

  • Maybe they nosed in the kitchen, found the spaghetti boilin.

    Come Again No More Jack Todd 2010

  • A man settin there bleedin to death with spaghetti boilin all over the stove.

    Come Again No More Jack Todd 2010

  • A man settin there bleedin to death with spaghetti boilin all over the stove.

    Come Again No More Jack Todd 2010

  • A man settin there bleedin to death with spaghetti boilin all over the stove.

    Come Again No More Jack Todd 2010

  • Maybe they nosed in the kitchen, found the spaghetti boilin.

    Come Again No More Jack Todd 2010

  • Nothing like a shamrock happy-trail to get that irish blood a-boilin'.

    Today I am NOT Irish Jen 2009

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