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  • I want to tell you that I am bauling my eyes out...

    Don't blog angry Elizabeth McClung 2008

  • Number of bauling Lawyers, drunken Squires, and impertinent and stingy Clients.

    Letter from John Adams to Abigail Smith, 30 September 1764 1963

  • I tumbled her in by the Heels, snatcht the Key of the Apartment where you were confin'd, lockt her in, and left her bauling for help.

    The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume I Aphra Behn 1664

  • Credit, without Land either in presenter prospect; and half a dozen hungry Vices, like so many bauling Brats at your Back, perpetually craving, and more chargeable to keep than twice the number of Children.

    The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume II Aphra Behn 1664

  • a Rakeshame, who have not Esteem enough for the Sex to believe your Mother honest -- without Money or Credit, without Land either in present or prospect; and half a dozen hungry Vices, like so many bauling Brats at your Back, perpetually craving, and more chargeable to keep than twice the number of Children.

    The City Heiress 1682

  • Apartment where you were confin’d, lockt her in, and left her bauling for help.

    The Rover; or the Banish'd Cavaliers 1677

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