reckonin

As yer knows, the Kernel kinder invited yer jest now, when we had no sort o 'reckonin' as to who and what yer were.

Picked up at Sea The Gold Miners of Minturne Creek

"Well, fellers, one o 'them big depot water tanks burnt plumb up this mawnin', an 'reckonin' whar that'd happen a feller might ketch fire anywhere in them little old town trails, I jes 'nachally pulled my freight for camp!"

The Red-Blooded Heroes of the Frontier Edgar Beecher Bronson

They'll be a day o 'reckonin' fer them rich folks what rides in 'em!

The Witness Grace Livingston Hill Lutz

In anither warl 'maybe, whaur the currency micht be sae different there wad be no possibility o' reckonin 'the rate o' exchange.

Robert Falconer George MacDonald 1864

"Ah! well done Mogue; many a day o 'reckoning _he_ has had wid _us_, but maybe _our_ day o' reckonin 'wid _him_ will come sooner than he expects, or wishes."

The Tithe-Proctor The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two William Carleton 1831

a single man here won't pay a penny o 'reckonin', while I'm to the good; and, to make short work of it, by the contints o 'the book, I'll strike the first of ye that'll attempt it.

Phelim Otoole's Courtship and Other Stories Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three William Carleton 1831

They allers fancy all sorts o 'dangers that your old seamen who've been a v'yage or two never thinks o' reckonin 'on! "

On Board the Esmeralda Martin Leigh's Log - A Sea Story William Heysham Overend 1874

We oughtn't to ben there for another half hour to the least, accordin 'to my reckonin'.

THE STAMPEDE TO SQUAW CREEK 2010

(Soundbite of song, "Sugar Tongue") Ms. RAY: (Singing) All the fur and fins will lose again, 'cause our better is their worst reckonin '.

After 20 Years, The Indigo Girls Go Indie 2009

So, I've noticed a pattern, as enny fool kin plainly see. ah cook fo 'Curtis, he gits pow'ful frisky an' seems t'reckon it's his solemn duty t'pleasure me an 'pleasure me fine af'er we haf ett up -- ah's reckonin' ah's a-gonna be cookin 'a LOT mo'e offen then mah no'mal Sunday fare. ah mean,' dn't yo '?

madrigle Diary Entry madrigle 2002