surprisin

_A_-mazin 'I like you, my dear! but it is what you might call surprisin', to leave a little maid in a blue pinafore, and to come back and find a princess in gold and velvet.

Captain January

But th 'surprisin' thing about this here island is that it ain't got nothin 'livin' on it except the most beautiful women in all the

Captain Scraggs or, The Green-Pea Pirates

You see, he's been with me sittin 'in his chair for the last four years, as I sat beside him sewin', and he was great company, Bill was, for all he was so sick; for he had great sperrits, and could argue somethin 'surprisin' and grand.

The Second Chance

You see, he's been with me sittin 'in his chair for the last four years, as I sat beside him sewin', and he was great company, Bill was, for all he was so sick; for he had great sperrits, and could argue somethin 'surprisin' and grand.

The Second Chance

Dummness runs in that family so, it's somepin 'surprisin'!

Tillie, a Mennonite Maid; a Story of the Pennsylvania Dutch

"Perhaps we can do a bit o 'surprisin'," he explained.

The Rover Boys out West Or, The Search for a Lost Mine

I believe they tuned up higher and louder when I went in -- it wouldn't be nothin 'surprisin' if they did, some as the brass band strikes up as the hero enters.

Samantha at the World's Fair

"Well, sir! the brimstone names that Fatty called that man was somethin 'surprisin' to hear.

The Depot Master

It was a mos 'surprisin' circumstance, sah -- a mos 'surprisin' circumstance. "

Keith of the Border

I've ben doin 'a lot of figurin' this week, an 'it's most surprisin'.

THE APOSTATE: written by Jack London