a-tellin

• “Higher up in the mountains where the trees thinned and the Dwarves thickened, old Masdy was being shown the door by Garley himself, “I ain't a-tellin' ya where to go, Masdy,” said Garley for the twelve-thousandth and first time, “But ya can't stay here.””

  Fictionaut: Masdy's Silver

• “The Spanish moon is rising on the hill But my heart is a-tellin 'me I love ya still.”

  ABANDONED LOVE

• “So you are the pesky rascal the lads was a-tellin 'me about," said”

  Guns and Snowshoes Or, the Winter Outing of the Young Hunters

• “I'm a-tellin 'you, Lady, dat was good eatin', and atter you had done been wukin 'in de hogkillin' dem cold days you was ready for victuals dat would stay by you.”

  Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 2

• “They's no use to go to Unc 'Jep with what I've been a-tellin' ye," the voice of natural authority proclaimed.”

  Judith of the Cumberlands

• “I seen dat, an 'I'm a-tellin' yer friend just der kind of a racket you give me, der same's you've give a hundred other fellers.”

  Different Girls

• “Cordelia, I heard you was a dead fraud, an 'now I know it, and I'm a-tellin' you so, straight -- see?”

  Different Girls

• “By ... hell, from what yore a-tellin '' o me, children, you sure have struck it rich!" he drawled at the end.”

  Where the Sun Swings North

• “That wind-jammer's the _Hoonah_ I been a-tellin 'you of, Chief," he drawled, holding out the binoculars.”

  Where the Sun Swings North

• “But, as I were a-tellin 'ye, sor, in comes Bridget whilst I were talkin' to the jintleman behoind the bar at the rendywoo.”

  Crown and Anchor Under the Pen'ant

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