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Walker's imagination, by his earnest "wrastlin '," was wrought up to great intensity, and he converted Major John's discordant music, which to most men resembles the filing of a saw-mill saw, into a call from heaven urging him to preach the Gospel.

Fisher's River (North Carolina) Scenes and Characters 1859

While he was "wrastlin '" most earnestly, scarcely outdone by the patriarch, some one passed the road with a long-eared animal, politely called a John Donkey, and John let off, as his race is wont to do sometimes, in a most moving and thrilling manner.

Fisher's River (North Carolina) Scenes and Characters 1859

'tackt o' the neuraligy she see approachin ', and here I had been tryin' to live up to the requi'ements of quinine, an 'wrastlin' severe with a sleepy spell, which, ef I'd only knew it, would o 'saved me.

Moriah's Mourning and Other Half-Hour Sketches Ruth McEnery Stuart 1886

o 'wrastlin' with the alphabet with a strong daytime on his book ter light him ter knowledge.

The Phantoms Of The Foot-Bridge 1895 Mary Noailles Murfree 1886

Hockey is a merger between wrastlin' and curling, which is shuffleboard on ice.

Riding Dirty, Coming Clean: All You Haters Hear My Confession BikeSnobNYC 2010

August 23, 2008 at 12:10 am ooo! mommeh wrastlin… that shall be amusing, an a widdul bit embarassing…

Dis? It made frum - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008

Dere warn't no fussin 'and fightin' 'lowed on our place, and dem wrastlin' matches was all in good humor and was kept orderly.

Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 1 Work Projects Administration

When all de corn was done shucked and de big supper had been et, dere was wrastlin 'matches and dancin' and all sorts of frolickin '.

Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 1 Work Projects Administration

Amens does help we-all a powerful lot when we's wrastlin 'wid we-all's sperrits.

Peggy Stewart at School

Atter dey et all dey wanted of dem good things what had done been cooked up for de big supper, den de wrastlin 'matches started, and Marster allus give prizes to de best wrastlers.

Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 1 Work Projects Administration