wanderin

The woman makes the girl lie down on the sofa by the fire, an 'she bein' weak an 'wanderin' yet did as she was told without askin 'a question.

Smethurstses 1995

'Tis not a ro'd proper but indistink like an 'wanderin'.

Ambrotox and Limping Dick Oliver Fleming

He was kind o 'wanderin' in his mind, an 'speakin' to you an 'John, jist as he used to speak when we were a' bairns thegither.

The Underworld The Story of Robert Sinclair, Miner James C. Welsh

"She's kind o 'wanderin', puir thing," he heard the mother say in explanation to the others.

The Underworld The Story of Robert Sinclair, Miner James C. Welsh

His hands were kind o 'slim an' wanderin ', an' he carried a book like it was his only baggage.

Friendship Village Zona Gale 1906

"There'll be a 'water-lily,' then, will the '? and an' eagle, 'and a' medder brook, 'and a' wanderin 'iceberg,' and a 'pair o' bars '?"

Uncle William: the man who was shif'less Jennette Barbour Perry Lee 1905

Nature an 'dicky-birds, an' wanderin 'about half nood for art's sake.

Iole Arthur C. [Illustrator] Becker 1899

I had aye been used wi 'him; for he often bided wi' us for days thegither; and while a boy I gave little heed to his odd ways an 'wanderin' mode o 'life; for he was very kind to mysel' an 'a younger brither, an' we thought muckle o 'him; but when we had grown up to manhood my father tell'd us what had changed Davy Stuart from a usefu' an 'active man to the puir demented body he then was.

Stories and Sketches Harriet S. Caswell

I'm jus 'wanderin' aroun 'like a damn ol' graveyard ghos '. "

Jeffrey Feldman: A Thanksgiving Lesson From Tom Joad 2008

"I was wanderin 'in the rain," he sings, "Mask of life, feeling insane."

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