schemin

For I saw through it quicker'n wink that that 'ornery Ichabod was tryin' to make folks think Art was dead, an 'schemin' to get hold of the property that would be Art's if he ever come home alive.

Far Past the Frontier W. H. [Illustrator] Fry 1913

"Fer women run men, an 'men politics, an' politics armies, an 'armies th' wor-rld -- an 'at th' bottom av ut all is th 'wisdom an' schemin 'av women.

The Promise A Tale of the Great Northwest 1921

And then everybody who had money was tryin to get more money, schemin’, and tryin’ to find all kinda ways to get it from a person.

Alive In Truth 2005

At fifteen out all night long, up an 'down the river, schemin' all ways to circumvent the watchmen, for they're that 'cute it needs all your brains an' more to get ahead of 'em.

Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 26, August, 1880 of Popular Literature and Science Various

The dirty, low, schemin 'granddaddy of all the foxes in

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

I'd been figurin 'and schemin' all autumn how to get my traps before the winter comes on.

Way of the Lawless Max Brand 1918

He's a sneakin ', schemin' devil, an 'he hates me like poison.

'Drag' Harlan Charles Alden Seltzer 1908

Where would you be if it weren't for me and your poor, hard-workin 'mother, schemin' and plannin 'for you year in and year out?

The Financier, a novel Theodore Dreiser 1908

"There'll be a heap of schemin ', an' mebbe shootin ', Williams,"

Square Deal Sanderson Charles Alden Seltzer 1908

I told her she had better think over what I said about that Eg's schemin 'to get her mother and the five thousand dollars.

Fair Harbor Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907