salvin

You was always hard to get into a fight, but you know as well as I do, and I ain't salvin 'you when I say it, that you're the most terrible, ferocious fighter, forgettin' everything but blood, that ever paddled a canoe on the Athabaska.

The Sky Line of Spruce Edison Marshall 1930

"If you two got a thousand dollars each in bank -- an 'I ain't disputin' it, for I hear on good authority you got that much for salvin 'the _Chesapeake_ -- what're you hangin' around the _Maggie_ for?"

Captain Scraggs or, The Green-Pea Pirates Gordon [Illustrator] Grant 1918

"It's a-goin 'to be lively work salvin' any hooker to-day," said the mate.

Dan Merrithew Lawrence Perry 1914

McRimmon got a third for salvin 'an abandoned ship.

The Day's Work - Volume 1 Rudyard Kipling 1900

Now, gents, I'm willin 'to wipe out all differences and help in the salvin' on shares, and I'll make it easy for you.

Great Sea Stories Various 1897