frightenin

I might as well tell you candidly that you have no more chance o 'frightenin' me or desaivin 'me than you have of catchin' whales in Casey's duck-pond.

Duty, and other Irish Comedies Seumas O'Brien

I've not seen your boys, an 'I tell you that if there was a boy grinnin' in every bush on the place, _still_ ye've no shadow of a right here, comin 'up from the combe that way, an' frightenin 'everything in it.

Stalky & Co. Rudyard Kipling 1900

As a woman it can be frightenin ', unless you got a man with you.

Christopher Devine: Of No Fixed Address: Poor Is Everybody 2008

_ Luk up at that 'un tother side -- it's a Gineral's gho-ast a-frightenin' th 'undertaker (_A subject from "Hamlet" _)

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, October 22, 1892 Various

“An’ it’s me as put Mr. Tom up to the bit o’ business; for Mr. Tom’s been a friend o’ mine iver since I was a little chap; fust thing iver I did was frightenin’ the birds for th’ old master.

II. Aunt Glegg Learns the Breadth of Bob’s Thumb. Book V—Wheat and Tares 1917

Don't you see you're frightenin 'Lulie half out of her wits?

Galusha the Magnificent Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907

I never put anybody in jail in my life; though, "with an emphatic nod," there's some folks ought to go there for frightenin 'children out of their senses.

Mary-'Gusta Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907

They hardly took time to kiss and say howdy and shuck off their store clothes before they were off -- dabblin 'in the branch, rockin' the ducks in the little pond, frightenin 'the ganders as they stand guard over their sitting mates, digging bait, fishing for minners, rollin' an old hogshead down the hill, breakin 'the bull calf and every half hour sendin' to grandma for some more gingerbread.

Bill Arp from the uncivil war to date, 1861-1903, 1903

Lizzie Ryan, "and the workhouses -- bad luck to the whole of them -- where there's rats in the cocoa, and mad people frightenin 'you, and the cross matrons, and the pólis, and the say to dhrownd the fishin'-boats in, and dirty ould naygurs that put dacint people out of their little places ----"

Strangers at Lisconnel Jane Barlow 1887

You'll bear me out, shipmates, that we was all agreed to go no further than the frightenin 'of him a bit, and meant to let him off arter we'd made fast the rope, and let him stand with it round his neck a minute or two.

The Voyage of the Aurora Harry Collingwood 1886