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  • Man, man, I'm tellin 'you that I clipped the fight columns from the newspapers to keep it' way from him — him a-thinkin 'I was wantin' them for me scrap book.

    Chapter II 2010

  • "Them cheap skates," Billy sneered to Saxon, "with a couple of gallons of gasoline an 'the price of a machine a-thinkin' they own the roads your folks an 'my folks made."

    CHAPTER X 2010

  • I've been a-thinkin ', and yes, that is very dangerous, but I do it anyway.

    Just thinkin'.... p_n_elrod 2009

  • Eirlys sent me the link to this dress I'm pretty sure -- Eirlys, was that you? and I've been a-thinkin' about it something fierce.

    Such Great Heights - A Dress A Day 2010

  • Eirlys sent me the link to this dress I'm pretty sure -- Eirlys, was that you? and I've been a-thinkin' about it something fierce.

    February 2010 2010

  • But he likes some of that stuff, so I got a-thinkin' of some fun things we can for a date.

    Archive 2008-07-01 ~ bianca ~* 2008

  • But he likes some of that stuff, so I got a-thinkin' of some fun things we can for a date.

    Real Wild Child ~ bianca ~* 2008

  • "Polly, -- I hope it aint no wrong in me a-thinkin 'it, -- for this aint no time for me to have none but the reverentest an' gratefulest humble heart, -- but as you set there with the little fellow so peaceful on your breast, I can't help bein '' minded of the Mother as we see in the churches, an 'as some prays to."

    Smethurstses 1995

  • "Well," says Joe, "nothing in a general way, perhaps; only sir, I was a-thinkin 'as p'raps you might be lookin' for some one as was unprotected an 'helpless, an' there aint no such a party here; an 'if you'd like your money returned at the door, -- me bein' the proprietor of the collection, -- I shouldn't have no objection."

    Smethurstses 1995

  • Did you ever start a-thinkin 'that you gotta stop that train?

    TRAIN A-TRAVELIN' Dylan, Bob, 1941- 1968

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