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  • It was here Daddy had been born and raised, within hollerin 'distance of the Red River, on an 80-acre cotton farm given to Villa and her young husband Renza by Tom Basinger.

    Archive 2008-07-01 2008

  • It was here Daddy had been born and raised, within hollerin 'distance of the Red River, on an 80-acre cotton farm given to Villa and her young husband Renza by Tom Basinger.

    Accountability Versus Blame 2008

  • I don't say as she ain't the lastin'est kind er fool, ner I don't say a child ain't worse -- spattin 'the lines an' standin 'up an' hollerin '-- but I do say,

    The Day's Work - Volume 1 Rudyard Kipling 1900

  • Just because we don't travel the Country, screaming and "hollerin" terrible names, does not mean we are not tired of this c – p. SO, before the Republicans get too wrapped up in the "love fest", they need to notice that "NO" can also mean a "NO VOTE" for them, and

    Palin weighs in on Pennsylvania special election 2010

  • When he'd get to whoopin' and a'hollerin' in a song, he'd pluck that string.

    Jonah Hex Ultimate Spaghetti Makeover! David Campbell 2007

  • "I wake up every night 'round midnight, Lord I just can't sleep no more...all the crickets and the frogs a'hollerin' while the wind is whirrin' 'round my door."

    From The Daily Growler Wastebasket The Daily Growler 2006

  • Now, you been doin 'a lot o' hollerin 'about me an' Bart bein 'pirates under the law an' liable to hangin 'an' imprisonment, an 'that kind o' guff don't go nohow.

    Captain Scraggs or, The Green-Pea Pirates Gordon [Illustrator] Grant 1918

  • It was Ranch skeered stiff an 'hollerin' fer dear life at bein 'jumped on an' waked up in the middle of a graveyard that-a-way.

    Humorous Ghost Stories Dorothy Scarborough 1906

  • Then all of a suddent somepin 'popped up on the graveyard wall about a hundred yards away -- somepin' all blue-gray against the hook o 'the moon -- an' began walkin 'up an' down an 'hollerin'.

    Humorous Ghost Stories Dorothy Scarborough 1906

  • I did a big piece o 'hollerin', an 'they worked on her and fotched her back; I' ain't been no 'count since.

    Shapes that Haunt the Dusk Henry Mills Alden 1877

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