adoin

Yess – I sees yo 'eyes adoin' dat dere triflin 'trick –

The Miracle, and Other Poems 1913

A man can't go on playin 'a lone han' like I'm adoin 'an' get away with it long.

Six Feet Four Jackson Gregory 1912

"Wot was you adoin 'to let me do it?" he demanded at length of the boy.

More Cargoes 1897 1903

'What you adoin' of here, 'says I.' Seems to me you're prowling around mighty permiscuous, buntin 'inter people on the State stage road.

Bears I Have Met—and Others Allen Kelly 1885

The soul of the honest miner flamed out; he laid his hand threateningly upon his pistol, jerked himself stiff, glared a moment at me with the look of a tiger, and hurled this question at my head as if it had been an iron interrogation point: “W'at a 'yer ben adoin' to that gurl?”

The fiend's delight 1873

The cooking stove was at his left, and tin kettles all around; the corn cake was adoin’, and instead of scratching his head for an idea, as editors often do, he turned the cake and went ahead.

THE AMERICAN WEST DEE BROWN 2007

I've had enough of them sort "-- savage like --" a-ruinin 'my Richard Cure the Lion, an' a-settin 'Mary Queen o' Scottses insides all wrong "(which was what his last young man had been adoin ').

Smethurstses 1995

An 'what's more, me and my pal think ye mean to let the wardens know 'bout what we've been adoin' up this ways. "

The Boy Scouts' First Camp Fire or, Scouting with the Silver Fox Patrol Herbert Carter

"What, me, and with only my p-p-pajamas on?" cried Toby; "I'd like to s-s-see myself adoin 'that.

Chums of the Camp Fire Lawrence J. Leslie

He's always adoin 'little things for folks, Austen is. "

Mr. Crewe's Career — Complete Winston Churchill 1909