a-hanging

Come all you pretty women with your hair a-hanging down

Candyman Robert Hunter 2006

Come all you pretty women with your hair a-hanging down

Candyman Robert Hunter 2006

"I saw the Devil with mine own eyes, a-hanging from the chimneypots —" Her voice broke off in a muffled bleat, as though someone were forcing her to eat her pillow.

In the Garden of Iden 1997

Solomons, who had an indefinite idea of the lawful power of squires, and who had been for the last ten minutes at watch on his threshold, shook his head and said -- "Them as a cut out the mon, a-hanging, as a put it in the Squire's head!"

The International Monthly, Volume 2, No. 4, March, 1851 Various

But still Falk's voice came back to us shrilly, "I'll see you yet a-hanging by your necks," until at last we could only hear him cursing.

The Mutineers Charles Boardman Hawes

Some fool, _I_ can't find out who, left them hedge shears a-hanging wide open across the gate and the gate unlatched, and she must a run foul of 'em, 'cause we found 'em and all the signs o 'what had happened, but we couldn't find HER for more' n hour, and then

Peggy Stewart: Navy Girl at Home

"Now that I've been and gone and actually snook out of a window and made a common gallivanting old hex out of myself this way, I wouldn't come back not if Lulu and Harry and that lump of a Harris Hartwig was all a-hanging on to my pettiskirts and trying to haul me back."

The Innocents A Story for Lovers Sinclair Lewis 1918

Here he paused, but I held my peace and he continued, "Here's you now, you that was so mighty and fierce -- aye, a very hell-fire roarer -- here's that same you a-hanging here a very helpless, pitiful fool, shipmate, and thirsty 'twould seem --"

Black Bartlemy's Treasure Jeffery Farnol 1915

But Elmira says no, she can't a-bear to think of tea, with poor Hennerey a-hanging out there in the shop.

Danny's Own Story 1912

` ` But now she's perfectly well, and still a-hanging on.

Polly of the Circus 1908