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  • Dan a cat a-tekin 'kittens up a paih o' windin 'staihs.

    The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar Paul Laurence Dunbar 1889

  • Black Dog's mournin 'has got dealt down to the turn like; an' windin 'up his grief an' tears, Osage fashion, he out to give a war-dance.

    Wolfville Nights Alfred Henry Lewis 1885

  • "An 'then yo' came to a level, where you crept on your hands and knees through a mile o 'windin' drift, 'an' you come out into a cave-place as big as Leeds Townhall, with a engine pumpin 'water from workin's' at went deeper still.

    Indian Tales Rudyard Kipling 1900

  • "Tell ye, Cornely, this thing o 'windin' yer heart-strings around and around a passel o 'chaps for a year or so and then havin' 'em tore out -- well, hit takes a mighty considerable chunk o 'yer heart along with

    Southern Lights and Shadows William Dean Howells 1878

  • Frayne, sir, or some of the other gents; and when you are at home here, sir, you're always tunin 'up, an' windin 'up, or' venting something. "

    The Queen's Scarlet The Adventures and Misadventures of Sir Richard Frayne George Manville Fenn 1870

  • Yes | No | Report from GiantWhitetails wrote 27 weeks 1 day ago that makes sense. if the season was windin down i would take her. plus young deer are especially delicious.

    Will you shoot a small doe? 2009

  • Yes | No | Report from GiantWhitetails wrote 27 weeks 1 day ago that makes sense. if the season was windin down i would take her. plus young deer are especially delicious.

    Will you shoot a small doe? 2009

  • July 12, 2009 at 6:30 am ohai frum skeattle cheezmeet centrol……..windin down now!

    Don’t mind me, the baby’s in - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009

  • I wanna hear the moanin' and the windin' of the winches

    Archive 2006-05-01 Jaime J. Weinman 2006

  • I think, then, that there are at least 3 different variants: whinin 'boy winin' boy windin 'boy Very different referents for each! deadsongs. vue.185

    The WELL: So Many Roads Robert Hunter 2006

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