istin

"Aunt Hepsy h'istin 'colors by mistake," laughed the captain.

Cy Whittaker's Place Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907

"Well, Bob," said the old man, walking up to him, "what's up with you, and why are ye h'istin 'and lowerin' your jib in that onarthly fashion?"

Captain January Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards 1896

Then I began to wonder what I was goin 'to do, for things were gettin' awfuller and awfuller every instant, and the little boat was a-heavin 'and a-pitchin' and a-rollin 'and h'istin' itself up, first on one end and then on the other, to such an extent that if I hadn't kept tight hold of the rudder-handle I'd slipped off the seat I was sittin 'on.

The Magic Egg and Other Stories 1884

Bill Nevins, my engineer, and a landsman who was to work the h'istin 'engine, looked kind' er peaked when what was left of the jib come rattlin 'down on his fo'c's'le hatch, but I says to him,' the Screamer's all right, Billy, so she don't strike nothin 'and so long's we can keep the water out' er.

The Under Dog Francis Hopkinson Smith 1876

Judge Plunkett kep 'a-pullin' down the blinds and a-h'istin 'of them up to keep out the sun and let in the air.

The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales With Condensed Novels, Spanish and American Legends, and Earlier Papers Bret Harte 1869

Then I began to wonder what I was goin 'to do, for things were gettin' awfuller and awfuller every instant, and the little boat was a-heavin 'and a-pitchin' and a-rollin 'and h'istin' itself up, first on one end and then on the other, to such an extent that if I hadn't kept tight hold of the rudder-handle I'd slipped off the seat I was sittin 'on.

The Magic Egg and Other Stories Frank Richard Stockton 1868

_fur_ h'istin 'a oxes out'n a ditch, es much less'n salvation's train.

Moriah's Mourning and Other Half-Hour Sketches Ruth McEnery Stuart 1886

I was h'istin 'up my end of a j'ist, same as I'm paid to do, and,' stead of helpin 'he stands there and heaves out talk about -- about -- "

The Portygee Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907

If his father set him ter hoein 'pertaters, the little scamp would be found h'istin' up old rocks an 'boards ter see the critters under 'em crawl. "

The Tangled Threads 1894

You asked me if I'd ever been shot, and I told yer how I got hit; but I didn't consider the luggin 'the cap'n off the field or h'istin' Old Glory, when there wasn't anybody else to attend to it jest that minute, come under the head of bein 'shot. "

Quincy Adams Sawyer and Mason's Corner Folks A Picture of New England Home Life Charles Felton Pidgin 1883