losin

Montoyo, he gets tired o 'losin' -- but still he's blind to a card that everybody else can see, and he calls for real play so he can go broke or even up.

Desert Dust

W'en de darkies see dat Yankee runnin '' roun de vimya'd en diggin 'under de grapevimes, dey shuk dere heads, en' lowed dat dey feared Mars Dugal 'losin' his min '.

Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 1995, Memorial Issue

"There's suthin 'losin' out of yer pocket!" bawled Taddy, as he was once more mounting the wagon.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 96, October 1865

"I'll be durned if I relish the idee o 'losin' the _Maggie_."

Captain Scraggs or, The Green-Pea Pirates

"Ever heerd o 'losin' men, lady?" he added, turning to me, with an air of grim waggery that made my flesh creep - for after all, even Yankees are human beings, though they don't always behave like it.

The war-time journal of a Georgia girl, 1864-1865,

So he's rich now an 'losin' stock, an 'goin' to be sheeped off his range.

To the Last Man

I guess nobody ever hankered after gettin 'stiff j'ints an' losin 'their eyesight an' so.

Country Neighbors

I might give you a thousand for a contract, an 'losin' and winnin 'mounts when you had a leg up.

Thoroughbreds

Mrs. Lathrop, for I was more upset 'n I showed at the notion o' losin 'faith in you.

Susan Clegg and Her Friend Mrs. Lathrop

Judy's cross 'cause she can't go out an 'meet Busby without runnin' the risk of meetin 'Mr. Drake an' losin 'all the time she's put in so far bein' deserted.

Susan Clegg and a Man in the House