growin

Yes, they've lived on what I have made for five years -- daddy down on his back, too, an 'the children jus' growin ', an' now they are big enough and strong enough to he'p me run the little farm -- instead "-- she said after a pause --" instead of bein 'dead an' buried, killed in the mill.

The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills John Trotwood Moore

Atlanta is the fastes 'growin' city in the South, an 'Atlanta is jes' full o 'men whose folks weren't much more'n' Crackers. '

The Boy With the U.S. Census Francis Rolt-Wheeler 1918

Anyway, when little Minervy kep 'growin' purtyer and sweeter, I could n't stand it to think of her growin 'up and bein' a Mormon's wife.

The Ranch at the Wolverine 1914

Look up to the clouds and listen to the birds and think of the nicest things you ever heard, and forget that there ever comes holes in the little lads 'pants, and forget that you ever had to wash for other people, and just remember we've a farm of our own and the crops' growin ', and so is the garden just as fast as if you was up watchin' it.

The Second Chance 1910

But Lee wuz dead in earnest an 'growin' more excited ivery min nit.

The U. P. Trail Zane Grey 1905

Anyway, when little Minervy kep 'growin' purtyer and sweeter, I couldn't stand it to think of her growin 'up and bein' a Mormon's wife.

The Ranch at the Wolverine B. M. Bower 1905

Mr. Dooley, laying down his paper, "an 'that is that we still have a lot iv young an' growin 'orators f'r to lead us on."

Mr. Dooley's Philosophy Finley Peter Dunne 1901

La Belle France was there with a wurrud iv encouragemint an 'a glance iv affection out iv her dark eyes that kep' growin 'darker as th' war proceeded.

Observations By Mr. Dooley Finley Peter Dunne 1901

But Jawn D., havin 'a large an' growin 'fam'ly iv dollars, takes on'y a kind iv gin'ral inthrest in thim.

Mr. Dooley Says Finley Peter Dunne 1901

When you git to Lafayette Bob Johnson an 'the rest of 'em will tell you she's over two thousand an' growin 'so fast they cain't keep track of her.

Viola Gwyn George Barr McCutcheon 1897