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  • Ron Chusid: True, it is probably best not to mention Mao 's name considerin g how that will be twisted, and the point of the speech could have been made without it.

    Liberal Values 2009

  • After about fifteen minutes, me still meditatin 'murder an' considerin 'my thirst I seen 'em fetch a camel out o' the khan at the Inn o 'the Good Samaritan; an' next thing you know, 'e's out

    Jimgrim and Allah's Peace Talbot Mundy 1909

  • "Weel, I'll gie ye auchteen pence, an 'considerin' a '' at 's to be dune wi 'what's left, ye'll hae to grant it 's no an oonfair portion."

    Warlock o' Glenwarlock George MacDonald 1864

  • He also impressed upon me that he had been 'considerin' the 'rangement of jinin' firms for some time.

    The New Penelope and Other Stories and Poems Frances Fuller Victor 1864

  • Our charges is but low, sir '-- Mrs Gamp addressed herself to John on this head --' considerin 'the nater of our painful dooty.

    Martin Chuzzlewit Charles Dickens 1841

  • It was a pretty spanking run, sir, 'said, or rather sung, the captain, who was a genuine New Englander;' considerin 'the weather.'

    Martin Chuzzlewit Charles Dickens 1841

  • An 'considerin' how you avoid me these days, I had to waylay you in regular road-agent style. "

    The Mysterious Rider Zane Grey 1905

  • "In the absence of any objections, an 'considerin' the evidence that's been given here this mornin ', I think I'll just let that dog go back the way he come.

    Frank of Freedom Hill 1901

  • An 'considerin' the onusual doin's goin 'for'ard, it's cheaper than corn whiskey. "

    Wolfville Nights Alfred Henry Lewis 1885

  • I guess they was all of half an hour considerin ', an' I was almost as miserable waitin 'as when I waited for you to say yes after I asked you.

    CHAPTER XX 2010

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