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The red glow of torches and bonfires caused the city to resemble a miniature sun a-setting.

La insistencia de Jürgen Fauth 2010

Look at him a-setting there — a hard man, a mean man, if ever you saw one!

Australia Felix 2003

Chapter 3 -- Watchers While Calvin was a-setting out on his journey to wherever, trying not to think about Alvin with every step, there was someone else already on a journey, also wishing she could stop thinking about Alvin.

Alvin Journeyman Card, Orson Scott 1995

"I'm a-thinking of the gitting back; which, wi 'the tide a-setting out from the harbour, won't be so easy, I knows!"

Bob Strong's Holidays Adrift in the Channel John B. [Illustrator] Greene

There's a Burmah girl a-setting, and I know she thinks o 'me,

When the Birds Begin to Sing Harold Piffard

All over dem logs she saw possums, musrats and buzzards a-setting around.

Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves South Carolina Narratives, Part 4 Work Projects Administration

Jezebel, she was a hussy, a-setting up at a winder when David came down along thu Jerusalem.

The Current Business Situation 1931

So she went on, getting better from day to day, slow, but sure, and trying to learn the names of common things - names as she seemed never to have heerd in all her life - till one evening come, when she was a-setting at her window, looking at a little girl at play upon the beach.

David Copperfield Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 1917

I recollect as well as if it 'us yesterday, Lahoma a-setting there with her legs untouching of the floor, learning' A 'and' B 'and asking thousands of questions and getting herself civilized.

Lahoma 1913

If you don't see nothing in that army of settlers going into a raw land and falling to work to make it bloom like the rose, a-setting out to live in solitude for years that in due time the world may be richer by a great territory, why, you ain't got a big vision.

Lahoma 1913