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  • "You thunk we wuz some ole ladies 'knittin' party, by the holy?"

    Isabelle Estelle Bruno 2010

  • "You thunk we wuz some ole ladies 'knittin' party, by the holy?"

    Flashman and The Redskins Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1982

  • "You thunk we wuz some ole ladies 'knittin' party, by the holy?"

    Flashman And The Redskins Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1982

  • Each one "tendin 'knittin'," none tryin 'to shirk!

    Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads Various

  • Simple folk they were: Mr. Meber a retired sailor, the wife rather worn with constant roomers, one daughter a dressmaker, the other working in the "knittin" shop.

    An American Idyll The Life of Carleton H. Parker Cornelia Stratton Parker

  • An 'they looked rill pleased when I talked to 'em about their patchwork an' knittin ', an' did they get the sun all day, an 'didn't the canary sort o' shave somethin 'off'n the human ear-drum, on his tiptop notes?

    Friendship Village Zona Gale 1906

  • Late years my Jennie an 'her husband seemed ter think we didn't need nothin' but naps an 'knittin', an 'somehow we got so we jest couldn't stand it.

    Across the Years 1894

  • I mighty glad you fotch yo 'knittin', 'kaze I'm pow'ful po' comp'ny w'en my chillun sick.

    Nights With Uncle Remus Joel Chandler Harris 1878

  • I mighty glad you fotch yo 'knittin', 'kaze I'm pow'ful po' comp'ny w'en my chillun sick.

    Nights With Uncle Remus Myths and Legends of the Old Plantation Joel Chandler Harris 1878

  • Why, he kin figgah ez fast ez I kin ravel out a piece o 'knittin', an 'I nevah in my borned days heard nobody,' cept mayby Preachah Stone, whut could read lak him.

    manybooks.net 2010

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