tacklin

I felt like goin 'out an' tacklin 'it meself, I was that disgusted.

Some Everyday Folk and Dawn Miles Franklin 1916

I've often thought thet ef at the Jedgment the good Lord would only examine me an 'all them thet went to school in my day, in the old blue-back speller' stid o 'tacklin' us on the weak pints of our pore mortal lives, why, we'd stand about ez good a chance o 'gettin' to heaven ez anybody else.

Sonny, a Christmas Guest Ruth McEnery Stuart 1886

You've heard about the thunder and lightnin 'tacklin' a blackgum-tree? '

John Gayther's Garden and the Stories Told Therein Frank Richard Stockton 1868

But before tacklin that question, I thought to have a look at Fresno Airport.

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Coach was not too happy with my tacklin neither, an let me tell you, I spent a lot of time at that oak tree.

Forrest Gump Groom, Winston, 1944- 1986

The tree was hard, and I was just tacklin 'that root with my knife -- I'd have cut through it in about an hour, I reckon -- when 'long comes that feller Handsome that I had saved from the hole in the rocks.

A Woman at Bay Or, a Fiend in Skirts Nicholas Carter

"'Taint's no use tacklin' them others," he whispered to the clerk, "for if I ever nabbed a rich one she'd make things lively for me -- but I guess it's the poor one that's got 'em, anyway."

For Gold or Soul? The Story of a Great Department Store Lurana W. Sheldon

"But they -- they won't be drivin 'that timber by floods, when they git to tacklin' these here valleys," he exclaimed.

Then I'll Come Back to You Larry Evans

In the morning I'll tell you the story of the house on the hill and you'll see I'm not tacklin 'this job to please anyone but myself.

The Alchemist's Secret Isabel Cecilia Williams

Him dwell on de life of labor and bravery, in tacklin 'kickin' hosses and mules.

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