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  • "Am yo 'aimin' it right at Mars?" asked the colored man, pausing in the work of making cage for his rooster.

    Through Space to Mars Or the Longest Journey on Record Roy Rockwood

  • 'But I'se countin' de money one day an 'a span ob mules broke loose an' stahts lickety-brindle fo 'de bahn, an' aimin 'to ketch de mules, I pokes de money in de pocket wid de hole.

    Blister Jones John Taintor Foote 1915

  • "I was a-hankerin 'arter experience," he concluded, "an 'aimin' to make my everlastin 'fortin.

    Heart of the Blue Ridge Waldron Baily

  • He's over there now on the trail of the free traders an 'aimin' to stand between them 'an the Indians till someone comes with authority to arrest them. "

    Connie Morgan in the Fur Country 1921

  • "These yere humane sentiments, however, don't deter him from shootin 'soon an' aimin 'low, which latter habits makes Wolfville's honoured chief a highly desp'rate game to get ag'inst.

    Wolfville Nights Alfred Henry Lewis 1885

  • I still think 7-1/2 is a good round and I've never tore up a squirrel usin it or any of the other ones and aimin for the head/chest. and they All have gone the distance.

    On Squirrel Collaboration and Wasted Meat 2009

  • I still think 7-1/2 is a good round and I've never tore up a squirrel usin it or any of the other ones and aimin for the head/chest. and they All have gone the distance.

    On Squirrel Collaboration and Wasted Meat 2009

  • "How many more of us ye aimin 'to kill, ye damned brig-and?"

    THE NUMBERS 2010

  • (Soundbite of movie, "The Grapes of Wrath") Mr. HENRY FONDA (Actor): (as Tom Joad) You aimin 'to tell me the fellas that are runnin' the camp are jus 'fellas campin' here?

    Of 'Public' Options And 'Government' Plans 2009

  • July 6, 2009 at 2:33 pm an a leetol to da sidez — he beez aimin furr yer tummeh!

    u ever haz dat feelin ur bein watched? - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009

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