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  • Don't care for fine mansions on earths 'sinkin' sand

    Cabin in Gloryland 1999

  • I hands 'em in if I can find him, or if I was so blame 'hongry I couldn't resist ther temptation I might butcher one fer ther sake o' sinkin 'my molars inter a tenderloin steak.

    Ted Strong in Montana With Lariat and Spur Edward C. Taylor

  • P'silly took on and 'lowed that she was goin' to die, and she kept on havin 'sinkin' spells and such, and bye and bye she lays on the bed and wauls up her eyes and breathes her last, to all appearances.

    Shawn of Skarrow James Tandy Ellis 1905

  • I dunno whether he did have another or not, but one night, he seemed to be sort o 'sinkin' away.

    Meadow Grass Tales of New England Life Alice Brown 1902

  • Down by the head an 'sinkin', her fires are drawn and cold,

    Verses 1889-1896 Rudyard Kipling 1900

  • The schooner'll sink no faster when she's awash than she's sinkin 'now.

    CHAPTER XV 2010

  • They're spirits -- ghosts of sailors that drowned as long ago as when that cask went adrift from a sinkin 'ship, an' that's years an 'years, Miss, as anybody can see, lookin' at the size of the barnacles on it.

    CHAPTER XXXVI 2010

  • I never believed that old moss-back in Honolulu, when he claimed he was a survivor of the sinkin 'of the Essex, an' no more will anybody believe me.

    CHAPTER XV 2010

  • Ye olde land lubbers will be desertin 'like bilge rats from sinkin' ship ...

    Thursday Thirteen - The ARRRGHHHH! edition Zenmomma 2008

  • A shame, but I have the sinkin feeling that wolverine won't will match up to any of the recent comic book movies (ironman/dark knight), so I'm not too bummed.

    Wolverine Trailer Attached to The Day The Earth Stood Still | /Film 2008

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