a-burning

Then he sat and said nothing, whilst the bathman arose and took him by the hand and girt his middle with a waist-cloth of black silk, after which the two slaves followed him with the bowls and gear, and they ceased not escorting him till they brought him into a cabinet, wherein they set incense and perfumes a-burning.

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

Cars they may have been a-burning, and people they may have been a-rioting, but petite, oblivious to it all this weekend, swapped her keyboard for a paintbrush, set her ipod on its base, and, rather randomly, decided to play albums by bands beginning with the letter K while she worked.

ostrich 2005

Cars they may have been a-burning, and people they may have been a-rioting, but petite, oblivious to it all this weekend, swapped her keyboard for a paintbrush, set her ipod on its base, and, rather randomly, decided to play albums by bands beginning with the letter K while she worked.

busy 2005

Here we waited for the tide, and had the pleasure of surveying the face of the country, the soil of which, at this season, exactly resembles an old brick-kiln, or a field where the green sward is pared up and set a-burning, or rather a smoking, in little heaps to manure the land.

The Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon 2004

The bread is in the oven (already I smell it a-burning), the winter is coming on, and my children lack good woollen hose and my husband needs a warm coat.

Woman and Labour 2003

Tearing up their girdles and a-burning up their bras,

Get Your Biscuits in the Oven and Your Buns in the Bed 1997

Remember this parable, and, whenever you fall in with an unlighted mind in your walk of life, drop a kind and glowing thought upon it from yours, and set it a-burning in the world with a light that shall shine in some dark place to beam on the benighted.

Sanders' Union Fourth Reader Charles W. Sanders

C.W. P. Mitchell, a determined and positive character of the West, resurrected it in the interest of the West and kept its flickering light a-burning.

The Anthology of Zion Methodism with an Appendix William Henry 1925

And left the fires of wild desires a-burning in my bones!

A Scientific Note 1921

"Youngster, I don't know what's the reason, but I kyan't get any of my corn to grow but them two akers o 'yourn - the dry drought is just a-burning up the rest o' my corn."

A Woman Rice Planter 1914