adoing

So when spring came it was set about, but it was five years adoing, and before it was all finished the war-dukes entered into it, and dwelt there with their wives and their friends in all honour.

The Water of the Wondrous Isles 2007

If I gets a lever to break thee, regilar, I swear by Christ I still be adoing it.

Tai-Pan Clavell, James 1966

"I think it's a great pity you waste your precious time bothering about what the weather is agoing to be, when we can't help it; and you might be racking that really stupendous brain of yours adoing other things worth while," Bumpus went on to remark.

The Boy Scouts on Sturgeon Island or Marooned Among the Game-fish Poachers Herbert Carter

Then, you see, it'll be that bunch that's left behind to be marooners on old Sturgeon Island; and when we get to town why, we can let the authorities know all about what they're adoing out here, so they'll come and arrest the whole kit.

The Boy Scouts on Sturgeon Island or Marooned Among the Game-fish Poachers Herbert Carter

Whilest these things were adoing, the Deputies for the suretie of the campe caused the wounded Earle to be borne to pryson.

The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 William Painter

The neighbouring house was in like condition, and a quick survey told him that the fisher-folk, hearing sounds of the fight, had gone down to learn what strange business was adoing at midnight.

Sea-Dogs All! A Tale of Forest and Sea Tom Bevan

'Stopping at the Hotel de la Ville,' said the awakener, 'and adoing of the Grand Tower, my pippin.

An Old Meerschaum From Coals Of Fire And Other Stories, Volume II. (of III.) David Christie Murray

But it was a perilous place, for there were robbers in the bushy hills-mainland men who loved above all things to rob an islander: and out at sea, as he looked towards Pelion, there seemed something adoing which boded little good.

The Moon Endureth: Tales and Fancies John Buchan 1907

Red and breathless work as it was, it was not long adoing.

The Life and Death of Richard Yea-and-Nay Maurice Hewlett 1892

Ralph sighed, for this talk of the woman and the beads brought all the story into his mind, so that it was as if he saw it adoing again: the

The Well at the World's End: a tale William Morris 1865