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  • "Me bein 'weak an' ailin ', tho' comin 'of a strong family, as allays lived to a good age, thro' bein 'in the' abit of wearin 'flannels, which my mother's father thought better nor a-spilin' the inside with chemistry."

    The Mystery of a Hansom Cab Fergus Hume 1895

  • Old Josey, he be too weak an 'ailin' to get out in this kind o 'weather, but he sez he's prayin' 'ard, which I truly believe he is, though he ain't in church.

    God's Good Man Marie Corelli 1889

  • Old Josey, he be too weak an 'ailin' to get out in this kind o 'weather, but he sez he's prayin' 'ard, which I truly believe he is, though he ain't in church.

    God's Good Man Marie Corelli 1889

  • Old Josey, he be too weak an 'ailin' to get out in this kind o 'weather, but he sez he's prayin' 'ard, which I truly believe he is, though he ain't in church.

    God's Good Man Marie Corelli 1889

  • He would jes 'stop an' push his spectacles back on his slick bald head an 'say,' Ye hear me, Loralindy! he 'lows he'll never furget the keer ye tuk o' him whenst he war shot an 'ailin' an 'nigh ter death.

    A Chilhowee Lily 1911 Mary Noailles Murfree 1886

  • "ailin '" and "puny" his mother was getting, Darby knew that the letter was written by Vashti, and he felt that it meant a great deal.

    The Burial of the Guns Thomas Nelson Page 1887

  • Somethin 'ailin' him, "concluded Cap'n Bill, wagging his grizzled head.

    The Magical Mimics in Oz Baum, L. Frank 1946

  • "You had been strange an 'ailin' a long time, and that day you fell down in a fit.

    Dialect Tales 1883

  • That's what I want to know -- me, that's cooked for you, an 'washed your stinkin' clothes, and fixed your socks, an 'sat up nights with your brats when they was ailin'.

    CHAPTER XIX 2010

  • I've got somethin 'pretty baby, somethin' that's ailin 'me

    Albert Collins Lyrics 2009

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