tearin

"Wolves; a whole pack of 'em comin 'tearin' mad this way!"

With Trapper Jim in the North Woods Lawrence J. Leslie

I'll be smoking Deuteronomy an 'Kings long afore we're over the Rhine, an' mebbe, "he sez, turnin 'over the pages with' is thumb an 'tearin' out the Children of Israel careful by the roots," mebbe I'll be reduced to smokin 'the inscription,' To our Dear Soldier Friend, 'on the fly-leaf afore I gets a chance to loot some' baccy shop in Berlin.

Between the Lines Boyd Cable 1910

Sykes, comin 'tearin' up on account o 'Timothy leavin' him urgent word to come, without explainin 'why.

Friendship Village Zona Gale 1906

Lord knows I've no love for Elijah an 'yet I'm caperin' upstairs an 'downstairs when he ain't in a hurry an' tearin 'my legs off scamperin' when he is, until I declare I feel mad at myself -- I certainly do.

Susan Clegg and a Man in the House Anne Warner 1891

Hurryin 'leads to swallowin' fish-bones an 'tearin' yourself on nails an 'a many other things as makes me mad, an' I won't hurry now an 'I won't hurry never.

Susan Clegg and a Man in the House Anne Warner 1891

Up we goes a-scratchin '; pullin' at de bushes an 'weeds an' grass ter help us 'long, an 'tearin' dem up, like flax on a rainy day.

Burl Morrison Heady 1872

-- ay, last till th 'Almighty comes a' tearin 'down in clouds o' glory.

The Treasure of Heaven A Romance of Riches Marie Corelli 1889

"An 'then, you lives all alone in that theer ghashly' Oller -- an 'you fights, an' struggles wi 'devils an' demons, all in the wind an 'rain an' tearin 'tempest -- an' what's most of all -- you comes back -- alive; an 'what's more yet, wi' devil-marks upon ye an 'your throat all tore wi' claws.

The Broad Highway Jeffery Farnol 1915

South Country, d'ye see (a'most as fine a man as I were in my time), and, off and on, gets took wi 'tearin's and rages, at which times' e don't mind who 'e' its -- "

The Broad Highway Jeffery Farnol 1915

"Nay, man, 'tis a live, ragin 'storm comed off the sea an' tearin 'ower the airth like a legion out o' hell!

Lying Prophets Eden Phillpotts 1911