talkin

I peeked 'roun' de corner ob de po'ter, an 'I seed Miss Bradford an' de Gin'ral settin 'talkin' as budge as two buzzards.

Hagar's Daughter: A Story of Southern Caste Prejudice Pauline Elizabeth 1902

But what's de use o 'talkin' -- Sam's waystin '! "

The Missing Bride Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth 1859

"We been expressin 'along for several miles while we been standin' still an 'talkin'?"

I, TOO, DREAM.... 2010

Life-storytelling, I argue in this chapter, is a critical form of remembering and history-telling for women, a kind of talkin a way, an oral traditionrestricted to female social spaces and audiences and through which elderly women offer young women and girls prescriptive models for living well and avoiding suffering in adulthood.

Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique 2005

Da ya all tink dim aliens can read our kind of talkin like you all?

Does Golden Age Science Fiction Suck? 2005

'So we're smokin' fags an 'talkin' an 'I'm askin' her about where she comes from, being as how she's a long way from home, what wi 'her obviously being Scottish an' all, an 'I'm tellin' her how I love all them mountains they have up there an 'one day I'm gonna climb 'em, an' she says she feels the same.

High Society Elton, Ben 2002

He got ter gwine roun 'talkin' ter hisse'f, en singin 'corn-shuckin' songs, en laffin 'fit ter kill 'bout nuffin.

Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 1995, Memorial Issue Various

'Still, we can't expect' er to respect us as much as she would if we 'ad the same good manners an' way o 'talkin' that she an 'you' ave.

Sarah's School Friend May Baldwin

He ain't nebber done tired o 'talkin' to his toys, and asettin 'o' 'em in lines like dey was in school.

The Chums of Scranton High Hugh Morgan's Uphill Fight Donald Ferguson

I didn't see it at the first, and he was that cliver and insinuatin ', and had such a way o' talkin ', and made so much o' me, I couldn't but listen to him for a while.

A Loose End and Other Stories S. Elizabeth Hall