a-biling

If we go by road, that team gets off right away and when we catch up to it in the morning, it's usually set up on the next camping ground and the coffee is a-biling.

The Corner House Girls at School Grace Brooks Hill 1917

We clapped on the power, and went for them a-biling.

Tom Sawyer Abroad 1894

When I think of what you've had to suffer, I own it makes my blood go a-biling through my veins.

Colonel Quaritch, V.C. A Tale of Country Life Henry Rider Haggard 1890

I was just a-biling with curiosity; and I says to myself, Tom Sawyer wouldn't back out now, and so I won't either; I'm a-going to see what's going on here.

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 1884

We clapped on the power, and went for them a-biling.

Tom Sawyer Abroad Mark Twain 1872

I was just a-biling with curiosity; and I says to myself, Tom Sawyer wouldn't back out now, and so

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Chapters 11 to 15 Mark Twain 1872

I was just a-biling with curiosity; and I says to myself, Tom Sawyer wouldn't back out now, and so

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain 1872

I was just a-biling with curiosity; and I says to myself, Tom Sawyer wouldn’t back out now, and so I won’t either; I’m a-going to see what’s going on here.

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 2003

'kittle's jist a-biling, and the cups and sarsers ready laid,' and that, as it was such a wretched night out o 'doors, she'd made up her mind to have a nice, hot, comfortable cup o' tea -- a determination at which, by the most singular coincidence, the other two ladies had simultaneously arrived.

Sketches by Boz, illustrative of everyday life and every-day people Charles Dickens 1841