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  • In the news -- runnin' jumpin' scary-smart vampire bats:

    the answering ping Holly 2005

  • Anyway, so after the Bacardi I was feeling sufficiently hammered and I put on my Bebe Neuwirth-Bob Fosse-Cabaret-esque little outfit, complete with corset and slicked-down hair and a rose stuck in my cleavage -- cleavage that the corset had magically created -- and went out to Palm Court, because by this time it was about 12 and the place was jumpin 'jumpin'.

    kinaesthesia Diary Entry kinaesthesia 2000

  • See all the monkeys they're scritch-scritch scratchin 'jumpin' around and scritch-scritch scratchin '

    Going To The Zoo Tom Paxton 1969

  • Then I heard a deer comin 'jumpin' down th 'runway,' n 'knowin' 'for I could get him wide awake' nough t 'cock

    The Red-Blooded Heroes of the Frontier Edgar Beecher Bronson

  • Our old gardener, who used to watch the races with great interest, told me once that he "'ad seen one of the little dawgs a'jumpin' backwards and forwards over that 'ere bit of wood (the highest and most perilous jump), and a'practisin' by hisself!"

    Lazy Thoughts of a Lazy Girl Sister of that "Idle Fellow." Jenny Wren

  • Believe me young man, there's enough to do around that outfit to keep a man up an 'jumpin' if he was a hundred an 'seventy.

    Prairie Flowers 1921

  • Then came Spring in earnest, and that real business of life -- the racing of horses 'on the flat,' when Johnny Dromore's genius was no longer hampered by the illegitimate risks of 'jumpin'. '

    Complete Project Gutenberg John Galsworthy Works John Galsworthy 1900

  • Then came Spring in earnest, and that real business of life -- the racing of horses 'on the flat,' when Johnny Dromore's genius was no longer hampered by the illegitimate risks of 'jumpin'. '

    The Dark Flower John Galsworthy 1900

  • Weskin's lettin 'him go, but he went after him jus' jumpin '.

    Susan Clegg and Her Friend Mrs. Lathrop Anne Warner 1891

  • There was roarin ', an' jumpin ', an' jiggin ', an' flingin ',

    The Purcell Papers, Volume II 1880

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