a-looking

A few days later when spot, my hound and a lab that ran with them didn't show up, I went a-looking.

Stop New-Shotgun Misfires with Break Free CLP 2009

A few days later when spot, my hound and a lab that ran with them didn't show up, I went a-looking.

Stop New-Shotgun Misfires with Break Free CLP 2009

I'm just the kind of guy who, when he doesn't see something where it ought to be, goes a-looking.

C'mon, show a little bone, will ya? Arbogast 2008

It appears that one of the younger gals, a-looking out of the bed-rum window, had seen my master come in, and coming down to tea half an hour afterwards, said so in a cussary way.

The Memoirs of Mr. Charles J. Yellowplush 2006

‘He had got it in his mind that ’twere a funeral, and I found him wandering about the cemetery a-looking for us.

Two on a Tower 2006

I went a-looking for meaty game blogs a few months ago and found you; now I stop by almost daily.

Feedburner developing Torill 2005

Past the fringe of the curtain, and behind it too, her soft bright eyes were a-looking here and there for the first to come in of her children.

Erema Richard Doddridge 2004

‘Dear sister,’ says he, ‘I am very lazy; do step to my closet and fetch my flute; it lies in such a drawer,’ naming a place where he was sure it was not, that she might be a little while a-looking for it.

Moll Flanders 2003

And him like a viper a-looking at me — more like a viper than a human boy.

The History of Mr. Polly 2003

I stood a-looking at him; he set there a-looking at me, with his chair tilted back a little.

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 2003