leavin

What's she doin 'leavin' th 'young un to Joan, and gaddin' about wi 'ribbins i' her bonnet?

That Lass o' Lowrie's: A Lancashire Story 1877

"Marse Tom, I nussed you when you was a little baby, en I raised you all by myself tell you was most a young man; en now you is young en rich, en I is po en gitt'n ole, en I come heah b'leavin 'dat you would he'p de ole mammy 'long down de little road dat's lef' twix her en de grave, en --"

Pudd'nhead Wilson 1955

Does I meet up wid dat goat I'll sho 'bust him in de haid fo' leavin 'me.

Lady Luck Hugh Wiley

I had watched him and cared for him as if I was his mother, 'stead of his bein' my father, and a hurt to him was like a hurt to me: and when that man talked o 'leavin' him to fend for himself in his old age, the thought seemed as if it would break my heart: and now

A Loose End and Other Stories S. Elizabeth Hall

"Th 'little bye he be allers a puttin' some on bread an 'leavin' it on th 'cheers."

Sweetapple Cove George van Schaick

They clean up a place like, eat up all th 'leavin's, an' give th 'young nigs suthin' ter du. '

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No. 2, August, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various

You was afraid of me, an 'you wouldn't show it, an' you wouldn't own up that you was lost -- 'til I'd made the play of goin' off an 'leavin' you.

The Gold Girl 1921

Now you ain't a-goin 'to think of quittin' Wilton an 'leavin' me high an 'dry with this propeller idee, are you?

Flood Tide Sara Ware Bassett 1920

But I reckon the best figgerin 'would include dodgin' some lead an 'leavin' at least Bland or Alloway dead behind you.

The Lone Star Ranger 1914

'Hullo, Harris!' they says – 'leavin' the district? '

A Little Bush Maid 1910