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  • I wouldn't put it past your stuffin 'me in a basket "- she smiled a little -" an' draggin 'me along.

    Here Abide Monsters Norton, Andre 1973

  • In about two hours the brother at the wheel begins to complain that she's heavy an 'draggin' like blazes, an 'he fears maybe her seams has opened up under the strain.

    Captain Scraggs or, The Green-Pea Pirates Gordon [Illustrator] Grant 1918

  • Lord knows what he was doin 'draggin' down-town on a Sunday mornin '-- force of habit, I reckin.

    The Escape of Mr. Trimm His Plight and other Plights 1910

  • Well, I was kind of draggin 'a seine through my head, so to speak, tryin' to haul aboard a likely name for the critter, and fetchin 'the net in empty every time, when one day that -- er -- what-d'ye-call-it?

    Fair Harbor Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907

  • I was told off for to shif 'the scenes, haulin' up this an 'draggin' down that.

    Soldiers Three Rudyard Kipling 1900

  • I was told off for to shif 'the scenes, haulin' up this an 'draggin' down that.

    Indian Tales Rudyard Kipling 1900

  • There's the chance o 'him recoverin', an 'draggin' himself out o 'the water.

    The Gold-Stealers A Story of Waddy Edward Dyson 1898

  • The mar ud then have a better chance for herself; an 'maybe, when eased o' draggin 'my carcass, that wur a-keepin' her back, she mout make footin 'somewhur.

    The Hunters' Feast Conversations Around the Camp Fire Mayne Reid 1850

  • Lincoln had a way of holdin 'to an idea without the idea draggin' him down and away from everything else. "

    Mitch Miller Edgar Lee Masters 1909

  • He's juist a perfeck scunner, nominatin 'fowk against their will, an' draggin 'them into publicity when they wud far raither be kickin' up some ither kind o 'a row. "

    My Man Sandy J. B. Salmond

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