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Examples
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There's no use of you beginnin 'for to stop a woman's chinnin'
Gutenber-e Help Page 2005
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"Come along, then, but quit chinnin 'about Drusy."
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Len and me had been puttin 'in a lot of time together at his house, just chinnin' -- there wasn't much else to do but to keep warm.
The Motor Girls on Crystal Bay or, The Secret of the Red Oar Margaret Penrose
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"Say, when you fellows get through chinnin 'maybe you'll tell me what you're goin' to do with me?" snarled the tramp.
Tom Fairfield's Pluck and Luck Allen Chapman
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Seemed to kind of like chinnin 'to me at lunch; so I let him.
Torchy Sewell Ford 1907
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He takes five minutes of steady chinnin 'to get around to it; but he puts over such a velvety line of talk, and it's so int'restin' to watch him do it, that I let him spiel ahead until he gets to the enactin 'clause in his own way.
Odd Numbers Being Further Chronicles of Shorty McCabe Sewell Ford 1907
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And then, one noon as we was chinnin 'here in the front office, in blows
Odd Numbers Being Further Chronicles of Shorty McCabe Sewell Ford 1907
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I was in chinnin 'with him last night an' he's lost his nerve.
Shoe-Bar Stratton Joseph Bushnell Ames 1903
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We spent three days in this pleasant life, knocking around the country in the daytime, chinnin 'and smokin' under some rock and discussin 'things in general, and at night we made music, played checkers, and talked some more.
Red Saunders' Pets and Other Critters Henry Wallace Phillips 1899
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Goin 'past the bank, who would I see but our old bookkeeper, Merriam, chinnin' wid the bank president.
Empire Builders Francis Lynde 1893
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