beltin

Get this: A down-on-his-luck, "bird-dogging" guy from Illinois meets a blues-beltin', balls-to-the-wall babe from Louisiana ripping through Susan Tedeschi's "It Hurts So Bad" in a karaoke bar in Nashville, gets blown away with the voice, then stops "everything I was doing."

Michael Bialas: Hot Duo Steel Magnolia Have A Three-Way... Conversation Michael Bialas 2011

'However many million or billion gallons of water there are in the reservoir would come beltin' down the mountainside into Loch Fada, hittin 'the opposite shore here where the glen bends inwards, which is gaunny channel the whole lot down between the mountains like a canal.'

A Big Boy Did It and Ran Away Brookmyre, Christopher, 1968- 2001

"Ya took a beltin 'that night and came up for more as long as ya could."

Spring Street A Story of Los Angeles James H. Richardson

Puddin 'again, you'll get such a beltin' that you'll wish you was vegetarians.

The Magic Pudding Norman Lindsay 1924

An 'I'd ruther' ave the beltin 'from my ole man, even wivout no kipper, than' ave us allers lookin 'at each other as if we was wooden images.

Back to Billabong Mary Grant Bruce 1918

'We plods off again at last, an' presently we begins to get abreast o 'some position where one o' our big siege guns was beltin 'away.

Between the Lines Boyd Cable 1910

No! Then shine 'em, or I'll give you a beltin 'you'll remember!'

A Diversity of Creatures Rudyard Kipling 1900

He split on me fer beltin 'the Black, I know, damn him!

Thoroughbreds William Alexander Fraser 1896

I've been usin 'me fists all me life, beltin' the washboord, an 'I'm nowhere yet.

The Art of Disappearing John Talbot Smith 1889

"That's what I thought, as me sicond cousin remarked whin they told him his uncle carried his shillaleh a half mile and passed two persons without beltin ''em over the head."

The Hunters of the Ozark Edward Sylvester Ellis 1878