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  • And once I stepped on his toe -- a dretful warnin 'steppin' -- and he asked me out loud and snappish (I hit a corn, I spoze, onbeknown to me) -- and he asked me right out before 'em all, voyalent, "What I wuz a-steppin 'on his toe for?"

    Samantha at the World's Fair Marietta Holley 1881

  • Also: she sings "Come trippin 'down the stair," where Jerry sang "steppin '." deadsongs. vue.159

    The WELL: Peggy-O Traditional 2007

  • "An 'if Bill don't care to listen, he can fill up his time by takin' the jug an 'steppin' down to the cellar."

    News from the Duchy Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

  • But ef she comes out yere looking mighty pleased, an 'larffin all ober her face, an' steppin 'so frisky, den I knows de Secesh is gittin' de bes 'ob de Yankees.

    Iola Leroy, Or Shadows Uplifted. 1892

  • Gwine to punish us fu 'steppin' w'en we hyeah de music play.

    The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar Paul Laurence Dunbar 1889

  • Cable made it very clear that anyone who wasn't fully committed to this organization (as he is) needed to get ta 'steppin'.

    MVN 2009

  • 'twere, likin 'yer face for all that it's thin an' mopish, -- an 'steppin' in wi 'me to the' Trusty Man 'will mebbe give ye a character.

    The Treasure of Heaven A Romance of Riches Marie Corelli 1889

  • As soon as the heat came down from all circles about Limbaugh's past lunacy, Checketts and his consortium did what any business group would do — they ruthlessly carved out the cancer that was damaging their chances at acquiring the desired commodity and kept on steppin 'on.

    Sacked! 2009

  • As soon as the heat came down from all circles about Limbaugh's past lunacy, Checketts and his consortium did what any business group would do — they ruthlessly carved out the cancer that was damaging their chances at acquiring the desired commodity and kept on steppin 'on.

    Archive 2009-11-01 2009

  • Apr 28th, 2010 at 9: 51 am kcijones001: and if you do, you should probably get to steppin ..

    “Low Carbon” Otarian to Open in Midtown on Thursday | Midtown Lunch - Finding Lunch in the Food Wasteland of NYC's Midtown Manhattan 2010

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