listenin

Pretty innerestin 'listenin' to, an 'watchin', that prison guard drawl-on about the prison-guard world.

My Name is Earl Bill Crider 2007

It's me lyin 'there in a fine shoot iv clothes an' listenin 'to all th' nice things people are sayin 'about me.

Observations By Mr. Dooley Finley Peter Dunne 1901

Instead iv lollin 'on a sofy an' listenin 'to th' song iv th 'mockin' bur-rd in th 'pommygranite threes while ladies fr'm th' chorus iv 'Th' Black Crook 'fanned him with fans iv peacock feathers, th' mis'rable old haythen was locked up in a garret with a revolver in his hand ready to shoot anny wan that come next or near him.

Mr. Dooley Says Finley Peter Dunne 1901

I saw young Steiner standin 'listenin' above me, an ', man, he used language provocative of a breach o' the peace.

The Day's Work - Volume 1 Rudyard Kipling 1900

Why, even when I went to meetin ',' stead o 'listenin', to the minister, I was lookin 'out the places about them as go down to the sea in ships, ye know, and' that leviathan whom Thou hast made, 'and all that.

Captain January Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards 1896

She sets up thar, they tell me, in easy, roustabout clothes, an 'attends to the business of the day -- sech as readin' the mail, answerin 'letters, an' listenin 'to complaints from overseers an' land-renters.

Dixie Hart 1888

"Jes 'listenin' ter that beautiful readin '," he grinned, his long yellow tobacco-stained teeth all bare in a facial contortion that essayed a smile, his distended lips almost failing of articulation.

The Ordeal A Mountain Romance of Tennessee Mary Noailles Murfree 1886

I'se tried wid all my might 'er keep de people awake an' listenin ', and I'se gettin' dun beat out.

The Earth Trembled Edward Payson Roe 1863

a couple o 'minutes, wonderin' what to do, an 'listenin' to the hoss gittin 'furder and furder away in the direction of the cross-roads.

Green Fancy George Barr McCutcheon 1897

'How fookin' real is that} 'So I'm sittin' there, watchin 'her smoke me fags an' listenin 'to her talk, an' like I say, I realize that my new mission in life has leapt fully formed inta me brain.

High Society Elton, Ben 2002