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"You don't call trampin 'round huntin' and fishin 'work, do you?" said
Do and Dare — a Brave Boy's Fight for Fortune Horatio Alger 1865
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An 'so from mornin' till night they was together, traipsin 'all over the house an' garden, an 'trampin' off through the woods an 'up on the mountain every other day with their lunch.
Mary Marie 1920
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He had no abiding place; sometimes he referred to one hill shanty, sometimes to another, as home; but the home-feeling with him was at its fullest and strongest when he was "trampin '."
Sally of Missouri 1905
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And it's trampin 'trampin' tra-a-mpin 'thro' slush 'n mud' n rain --
In the Days When the World Was Wide and Other Verses Henry Lawson 1894
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Or it's trampin 'trampin' tra-a-a-mpin 'through mud and slush' n sleet;
In the Days When the World Was Wide and Other Verses Henry Lawson 1894
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An 'he was just as glad to give it as she was to take it. An' so from mornin 'till night they was together, traipsin' all over the house an 'garden, an' trampin 'off through the woods an' up on the mountain every other day with their lunch.
Mary Marie 1894
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Their women are raither given to clothin 'which is too short and too narrer, ours come out in toggery far too wide, and so long sometimes, that a feller daren't come within a fathom of 'em astarn without runnin' the risk o 'trampin' on, an 'carrying away some o' the canvas.
Black Ivory Francis B. Pearson 1859
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I've done a lot o 'trampin' after buffalo, an 'I feel too tired to run, I jest do. "
The Forest Runners A Story of the Great War Trail in Early Kentucky 1890
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"Then, -- oh, well, then it flew away," -- and Mrs. Twitt seemed rather sorry for this commonplace end to what she imagined was a thrilling incident -- "But the way that bird looked at me was somethin 'awful! An' when I 'eerd as' ow you'd found a friend o 'yer father's a' trampin 'an' wanderin 'an' 'ad took' im in to board an 'lodge on trust, I sez to
The Treasure of Heaven A Romance of Riches Marie Corelli 1889
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Wilder, ole coon, let's you an 'me set our faces southart, an' see what's to turn up at the tarminashun o 'six miles' trampin '. "
The Lone Ranche Mayne Reid 1850
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