Tha's what I call carryin 'liquor like a gentleman: or else you've studied voice-producsh'n. From Wordnik.com. [Foe-Farrell] Reference
Went on down there that mornin ', went up to the third floor three times that mornin' carryin 'stuff up there. From Wordnik.com. [Oral History Interview with Thomas Burt, February 6, 1979. Interview H-0194-2. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)] Reference
"I ken by her wy o 'carryin' hersel 'at she never had a jacket like that afore.". From Wordnik.com. [A Window in Thrums] Reference
"Because" -- Mrs. Tutts backed out of reach. -- "they's a law agin 'carryin' concealed weapons.". From Wordnik.com. [The Lady Doc] Reference
I reckon you couldn't sleep with yo 'haid so full er music an' carryin's on. ". From Wordnik.com. [The Comings of Cousin Ann] Reference
"I ain't goin 'to bother with ye, gone half the time as you be, an' carryin 'on with your Mis' Peaks and Mis 'Ashes. From Wordnik.com. [A Country Doctor and Selected Stories and Sketches] Reference
'em, och-honin 'fit to set ye crazy, an' carryin 'their dead, as if the loss o' one man ended the future o 'the tribe. From Wordnik.com. [The Girl at the Halfway House A Story of the Plains] Reference
They're carryin 'him on owd Malachi's coite' (coat). From Wordnik.com. [Lancashire Idylls (1898)] Reference
She was a carryin 'on high, like she was chokin', when. From Wordnik.com. [Darry the Life Saver The Heroes of the Coast] Reference
I come in from carryin 'the recycles out and stood here. From Wordnik.com. [A Minute to Midnight] Reference
I come in from carryin 'out the recycles and stood here. From Wordnik.com. [One Minute to Midnight] Reference
We weren't hunting especially, but I was carryin 'the old .303. From Wordnik.com. [On the Edge of the Arctic or, An Aeroplane in Snowland] Reference
But when she twitted me on mine, 'twas carryin 'things too fur. From Wordnik.com. [Poems Teachers Ask For Selected by readers of "Normal Instructor-Primary Plans"] Reference
Now if, 'stead of doin' your duty, you're carryin 'matters on so. From Wordnik.com. [Poems Teachers Ask For, Book Two] Reference
Yes, mam, dey great grand-chillun dere carryin on to dis very day. From Wordnik.com. [Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves South Carolina Narratives, Part 2] Reference
At Harper's Ferry -- that's where old John Brown was carryin 'em across. From Wordnik.com. [Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Arkansas Narratives, Part 3] Reference
I tried carryin 'a rabbit foot and I know it never brought me no good luck. From Wordnik.com. [Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Arkansas Narratives, Part 3] Reference
That spinner is idle over yonder an 'I guess I'll jes' be carryin 'her back. From Wordnik.com. [The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills] Reference
She was there in his room, wringing her hands, and carryin 'on like everything. From Wordnik.com. [Fred Fenton on the Track or, The Athletes of Riverport School] Reference
Here I've been carryin 'on over Creed Bonbright -- and you mighty near a widder. From Wordnik.com. [Judith of the Cumberlands] Reference
I been carryin 'water and wood fur Mrs. Norfleet twenty years and they cooks fur me now. From Wordnik.com. [Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Arkansas Narratives, Part 6] Reference
"Weel he's a very light way o 'carryin himself, for a minister o' the gospel, I must say". From Wordnik.com. [Adèle Dubois A Story of the Lovely Miramichi Valley in New Brunswick] Reference
They come up riding horses and carryin 'long old guns with bayonets on them, and told him. From Wordnik.com. [Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Arkansas Narratives, Part 7] Reference
You can see them any time, floppin ''bout in dese automobiles, a drinkin' and a carryin 'on. From Wordnik.com. [Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves South Carolina Narratives, Part 4] Reference
Abram used to say that Amos looked like he was carryin 'the sins o' the world on his shoulders. From Wordnik.com. [Aunt Jane of Kentucky] Reference
Finally she got up and scrubbed another room and while she was carryin 'the water out she fainted. From Wordnik.com. [Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 4] Reference
He had said to the man that he knew what all mama was doing and how she was carryin 'on with Reverend Earl. From Wordnik.com. [Amen, Hallelujah] Reference
There was somethin 'in the sound o' the horse's hoofs that told me he was carryin 'bad news, and I jumped up, and says I. From Wordnik.com. [Aunt Jane of Kentucky] Reference
Some parts, de wild golfs run 'roun' so thick a man hardly kin plough his fiel ',' thout carryin 'six or eight shotguns on de plow. From Wordnik.com. [Lady Luck] Reference
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