calculatin

I ain't what you'd call calculatin 'generally, and I b'lieve in lettin' young folks run their affairs to suit themselves; but there's advantages for both o 'them in this match you can't overlook in reason.

Act I, Scene ii 1920

I went over the figures, calculatin 'what I could throw off if I had to.

CHAPTER XX 2010

Me a-layin '' wake nights and workin 'up my theory, and calculatin' on lettin 'you in, and you a-snorin' and Frona-this and Frona-that --

CHAPTER 15 2010

"Got my fruit ranch paid for, double the size I was calculatin 'on," he explained; "and if I had any more, I wouldn't know what to do with it, sure."

CHAPTER 16 2010

Now, Harvard Business School may have a "track record of picking fascinating topics", but the way I see it, their "track record" of exactly WHO they award them coveted M.B.A. degrees of theirs to, like that idjet we got in the White House, hell, son, they just come up a little short by my calculatin '.

Charles H. Green: Can a Business Have a Conscience? 2008

Eventually handling the enormous data sizes in high quality - think 70mm film quality, will be easy on an inexpensive laptop, but today it chokes any computer system quick back of the envelope calculatin puts the data requirements at - 86,400,000,000/sec - assuming 48bpp, ~60mp and 30 frames a second - So video, a more technically complicated medium is probably where digital cameras were 10 years ago.

Digital Cameras Can Cause Blindness - Anil Dash 2003

"Look here, you Fogers!" he exclaimed without ceremony, "was you calculatin 'on stakin' any claims here?"

Tom Swift in the Caves of Ice, or, the Wreck of the Airship Victor [pseud.] Appleton

When I came near the outer edge of the cypress, I fastened the canoe to a root and crept forward on hands an 'feet from one cypress tussock to another, sorter calculatin' that I'd make less noise that way than in the boat.

The Boy Chums in the Forest or Hunting for Plume Birds in the Florida Everglades J. Watson [Illustrator] Davis

They seem to be a calculatin 'kind, but no man ain't deep anough to slip up on the blind side of this country and grab it by the mane like them fellers seems to think they're doin'.

Trail's End George W. Ogden

"Young man, I ain't given to eaves-dropping, but I was strollin 'along here and I heered it all; and as I was calculatin' to give my niece a present --" He broke off and laid a hand on Joe's arm.

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