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Examples
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It was sure hell, he thought, with the hunch a-working and that big strike coming, to be out of it all.
Chapter VIII 2010
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Yesterday, for whatever reason, Stu decided it was imperative that we go a-working.
outfoxed Diary Entry outfoxed 2002
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From down below, Old Peg could hear the ching-ching-ching of one of the smiths a-working at the forge.
Prentice Alvin Card, Orson Scott 1989
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Didn't always work that way, for sure -- never when he was a-working the iron or slipping through stone to mend or break it.
Prentice Alvin Card, Orson Scott 1989
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Replied the smith, "Hearing and obeying," and fell a-working to keep his word.
Tehran Winter Naipaul, V.S. 1981
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Then we was a-working ten hours a day, and we'd go back down there at night and work.
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But it did go hard with some, because everybody isn't the same a-working.
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And I remember when I was a-weaving over in the back alley, I was a-working on a loom one day on the other side of the mill, and something [claps hand] hit me on the back of the head right back there.
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And then after we moved from Appalache to Greenville, my daddy was a-working, and he worked in the Poinsett Mill some when I was a little feller.
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That's all I got, and I had to go and keep a-working.
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