grippin

I give you my word I stood there sort o 'grippin' up on my elbows.

Friendship Village Zona Gale 1906

'"Nonsinse!" sez the ould woman, prickin' up her ears like a cat an 'grippin' the table-edge.

Soldier Stories Rudyard Kipling 1900

'"Nonsinse!" sez the ould woman, prickin' up her ears like a cat an 'grippin' the table-edge.

Life's Handicap Rudyard Kipling 1900

"'Nonsinse!' sez the ould woman, prickin 'up her ears like a cat an' grippin 'the table-edge.

Indian Tales Rudyard Kipling 1900

That's why he got so much out o 'life, and wrote so many grippin' books, and was regarded with wonder by everyone.

Heinold's First and Last Chance Saloon 2010

So crack open a cold Bud Light, and say "cheese," oh master of the piscatorial self-portrait, because you're all about grippin 'and grinnin' ... and even if Giselle Bundchen could fish, she'd have nothing on you.

Real Men of Genius ... Mr. Tim Romano 2008

'You look like Evel Kneivel there, Robbie,' observed Parlabane, 'the way you're grippin' those handlebars. '

It's October, 1956. Shelagh Power-Chopra 2010

'You look like Evel Kneivel there, Robbie,' observed Parlabane, 'the way you're grippin' those handlebars. '

Boiling a frog Brookmyre, Christopher, 1968- 2000

Man, the daftest-like ideas tak 'a haud o' me whiles -- juist like a flesher grippin 'a sheep by the horns -- an', do what I like, I canna get oot o 'their grips.

My Man Sandy J. B. Salmond

I know'd it would be no joke grippin 'one o' them by the leg, but I made up my mind to try it, an 'I laid down jist as afore,' side the calf.

Seven and Nine years Among the Camanches and Apaches An Autobiography Edwin Eastman