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I drink a drop o 'beer, if that's what you ca' touchin 'alcohol.

The Lost Girl 1907

And say, I've seen her when I thought she looked mighty nice, but I'd never got just that view of her before, with the moon kind of touchin 'up her red hair, and her cheeks and neck lookin' like white satin.

Shorty McCabe Sewell Ford 1907

I marks chance cakes o 'ice driftin' down close t 'shore an' touchin 'land now an' agin as un goes, could I ride un.

Ungava Bob A Winter's Tale Dillon Wallace 1901

Creeks has been dispootin 'touchin' the reespective powers of him an 'the Lance, an' this latter Injun offers to come over to Greyhoss an 'make medicine ag'in him, Black Cloud never hesitates or hangs back like

Wolfville Nights Alfred Henry Lewis 1885

"He come up to me, sah -- he came up to me, sah -- an 'he put his face mos' touchin 'mine, and he opened his mouth and eyes jus' as wide as he could stretch 'em -- putti'n out his arms over me, too, like he was tryin 'to scare me."

Master William Mitten: or, A Youth of Brilliant Talents, Who Was Ruined by Bad Luck 1864

Sorry I didn't think about the P word touchin ... "

Boing Boing 2009

Lovin 'touchin' feeeeeeelin 'One More Reason to Love These People

WTF Is It Now?!? 2009

"But they took en up for dead, miss -- for he'd a-swum out to the wreck, an 'then he'd a-swum back with a man' pon his back -- an 'touchin' shore, he fell downward in a swound, marvellous like to death for all to behold.

I Saw Three Ships and Other Winter Tales Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

"Thar's a Major Sayres we meets up with once in Wolfville, -- he's thar on cattle matters with old man Enright -- an 'I recalls how he grows absorbin' touchin 'some of his adventures in that War.

Wolfville Nights Alfred Henry Lewis 1885

"An 'whan the lunch was ower, an' Mr. Harper was thinkin 'the moment come whan they would order him to tak the heid, an' him trimlin 'at the thoucht o' touchin ''t, an' lay't whaur it was -- an 'whaur it had sae aften been whan it had a sowl intil 't, the gentleman got up, an' says he til him, 'Be so good,' says he, 'as fetch me my hat-box from the hall.'

Donal Grant, by George MacDonald George MacDonald 1864