graspin

That I had got my money in a robbin ', graspin' way;

Poems Teachers Ask For, Book Two Various

There's one king in this room who is mounted onto a foaming steed, his right hand graspin a barber's pole.

Humorous Masterpieces from American Literature Various

_He_ wouldn't stand the boys, anyhow: he's nigh and graspin ': I've found that out.

Lippincott's Magazine, October 1885 Various

Can't we be hones 'without bein' selfish, fair without graspin ', make a profit without wantin' it all?

The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills John Trotwood Moore

A fellow needn't be caught, Bud, if he ain't too graspin '.

The Second Chance 1910

Your God's a _devil_, fisherman -- a graspin ', cruel devil; an' them the devil saves is damned.

Lying Prophets Eden Phillpotts 1911

Yankee can't afford it by honest work -- if we must all be lawyers or bankers or brokers or graspin 'middle-men in order to live -- let's start a big Asylum for the Upright, an' give 'em a chance to die comfortably.

Keeping up with Lizzie Irving Bacheller 1904

Captain Hocken -- he's a humane gentleman, too, and never graspin '-- no, never in his life!

Hocken and Hunken Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

Th 'wicked, ugly little eyes, th' crooked nose, th 'huge graspin' hands, tell th 'story iv this miscreant's character as completely as if they were written in so manny wurruds, while th' artist, with wondherful malice, has painted onto th 'face a smile iv sickenin' silf-complacency that is positively disgustin '.

Observations By Mr. Dooley Finley Peter Dunne 1901

` ` Your mither's god's a graspin 'deil, the shadow o' yoursel ',

McAndrew's Hymn 1893