nottings

"You don'd peen pig enough to bound der sduffin oudt uf nottings!"

Frank Merriwell's Chums Burt L. Standish 1905

Hold on till I git a knife, 'I says -- for his hands was just dangling at his side; and he says nottings cause he couldn't, he was most gone, and I knowed I wouldn't have time to git no knife but I saw it was a rope was pretty bad worn and so -- so I just run and jumped and ketched it in my hands, and being I'm so fleshy it couldn't stand no more and it broke!

Stories of a western town 1893

Hold on till I git a knife, 'I says -- for his hands was just dangling at his side; and he says nottings cause he couldn't, he was most gone, and I knowed I wouldn't have time to git no knife but I saw it was a rope was pretty bad worn and so -- so I just run and jumped and ketched it in my hands, and being I'm so fleshy it couldn't stand no more and it broke!

Stories of a Western Town Octave Thanet 1892

Dey don'd haf their headts togeder near vor nottings, py shimminy! "

Frank Merriwell's Chums Burt L. Standish 1905

I mos 'have de medicine or I can do nottings, I not wave de fingaire an' say de vord. "

The Lonesome Trail and Other Stories B. M. Bower 1905

"Then he will tell me, 'Poh, old Etienne, you know nottings what you talk about.'

The Landloper Holman Day 1900

"I doesn't do nottings -- I doesn't do nottings; it's my wife, my good Keewaygooshturkumkankangewock, dat does it all.

Oonomoo the Huron Edward Sylvester Ellis 1878