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  • You give 'em too tight of a reinin ', an' touch 'em up more than they need;

    Poems Teachers Ask For, Book Two Various

  • And lucky the same was for me, for it forced me to take the bit in me teeth, rely on meself, and regard me rider no more than if he were a sack of flour: I jist had it to do to save me own legs and me rider's neck, for to run by their reinin 'and pullin' would have brought us a cropper at about two out of every three obstacles.

    The Red-Blooded Heroes of the Frontier Edgar Beecher Bronson

  • If I begin indulgin 'Willie by lettin' him go all wild to this party in his old clothes, the next time there's a funeral there'll be no reinin 'him in.

    Flood Tide Sara Ware Bassett 1920

  • 'We plodded on, the Left'nant spurrin' his horse on and reinin 'him back, an' cockin 'his ear for the first shell bumpin' on the road. Nothin 'happened for quite a bit after that, an' I was just about beginnin 'to feel satisfied that the Germ bird' ad run into a streak o 'air that our anti-aircraft guns kept strickly preserved an' that they'd served a

    Between the Lines Boyd Cable 1910

  • Yankees come a-ridin 'up en a-reinin' in dere hosses befo 'de front po'ch, en Miss Chris come out a-smilin' en a-axin 'howdy, en den dey stan' dar a-bowin 'en a-scrapin', hit wuz des 'es civil es ef dey'd come a-co'tin'.

    The Voice of the People Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow 1909

  • Everybody 'round here seems like they was tryin' to ride right into trouble wishful, 'stead of reinin' to one side an 'givin' trouble a chance to get past.

    Sundown Slim Henry Herbert Knibbs 1909

  • I visited Castlenau on 'bin' day and could not believe the rubbish blowing around. reinin, West Norwood says ...

    unknown title 2009

  • Are you going to open all the bus lanes for motorcycles. because right now its quite dangerous the fact that its only some of them. you have to go 100\% or not bother at all. reinin, West Norwood says ...

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