doctorin

Now _that's_ what I call doctorin ', -- not but what I like

Melody : the Story of a Child Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards 1896

"There, she knew a good deal, but she didn't know all, especially o 'doctorin'," insisted Sarah Ellen from the rocking chair, with an unexpected little laugh.

The Passing of Sister Barsett 1996

I've ben perishin 'sometimes for want o' doctorin ', and all he'd give me was a little pepsin, or tell me to take as much sody as would lay on the p'int of a penknife, or some such thing, -- not so much as you'd give to a canary-bird.

Melody : the Story of a Child Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards 1896

"It's th 'doctor himself is needin' doctorin ', poor soul," he answered, "he bein 'with his right leg broke, and with his blessed head broke a-most as bad as yours!"

In the Sargasso Sea A Novel 1881

"There, she knew a good deal, but she didn't know all, especially o 'doctorin'," insisted Sarah Ellen from the rocking-chair, with an unexpected little laugh.

A Country Doctor and Selected Stories and Sketches Sarah Orne Jewett 1879

Early on Midsummer day, old Simon reared his ladder against the boundary wall, with a view of "doctorin '" some of the fruit trees, relying on a parish meeting, at which the constable's presence was required.

Tom Brown at Oxford Thomas Hughes 1859

I've had consider'ble experience in that kind of doctorin '. "

Keziah Coffin Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907

"Stands in need of doctorin '," the other man spoke up, "and the meat's spoilin ', and we ain't got time for nothin'."

CHAPTER 29 2010

"He says," panted the boy, "as 'e doesna hurt bad enough to need doctorin', but thank ye for yer consairn."

Sick Cycle Carousel 2010

See them coons doctorin 'tharselves wi' them squirt-machines.

Isabelle Estelle Bruno 2010