findin

"I sh'll make a business o 'findin' out abaout this thing yit," she said.

Ramona 1921

Old Gaffer be over proud o 'findin' ye, but old Gaffer be dodderin '-- dodderin' 'e be, an' fulish wi 'years;' e'd ha 'done much better to ha' left ye alone

The Broad Highway Jeffery Farnol 1915

"Or, worse, she'll be comin 'in here an' findin 'out what's goin' on."

Boy Scouts in Mexico; or on Guard with Uncle Sam 1909

But she wouldn't drink none herself, an 'the hard trip in the heat and sand carryin' the baby, an 'findin' the water hole dry was too much for her.

The Winning of Barbara Worth Harold Bell Wright 1908

When father died I was bound I'd never let anybody know how I was left, for that spites 'em worse than anything else; but there's ways o 'findin' out, an 'they found out, hard as I fought' em!

Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm 1903

Well, I finds myself away off from th 'hole I'd dropped into, an' no way o 'findin' he.

Ungava Bob A Winter's Tale Dillon Wallace 1901

I was a sight younger than I be now, and she made me imagine new things, and I got interested watchin 'her an' findin 'out what she had to say, but you couldn't get to no affectionateness with her.

The Foreigner 1900

In the daytime, when naething was heard, the masons explored ae place i 'the farm, in the hope o' findin 'oot' at the sound was caused by sic a thing as the wind playin 'on the wood in the garret.

A Window in Thrums 1898

Think uv your goin 'off to a river to trap beaver, an' findin 'nothin' thar but a saw-mill!

The Free Rangers A Story of the Early Days Along the Mississippi 1890

When father died I was bound I'd never let anybody know how I was left, for that spites 'em worse than anything else; but there's ways o 'findin' out, an 'they found out, hard as I fought' em!

Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin 1889