larnin

She's got a idee o 'larnin' -- never hevin 'hed much schoolin', and we ony takin 'the papers, permiskiss like -- and she says YOU can teach her -- not hevin' anythin 'else to do.

Drift from Two Shores Bret Harte 1869

She did not approve of so much "larnin '" for girls, especially when Beth was "goin 'to be married to that puny Mayfair."

Beth Woodburn Maud Petitt

Jake went after "larnin '" as a boy goes for pie at the picnic dinner.

"Say Fellows—" Fifty Practical Talks with Boys on Life's Big Issues Wade C. Smith

Knowing the need of the young people of his Tennessee mountains, York has made his life purpose to give them "a heap o 'larnin'."

Blue Ridge Country Jean Thomas 1945

"A power o 'larnin' in a small headpiece," commented Uncle Chirgwin as he drove home with the girls sitting side by side on his left.

Lying Prophets Eden Phillpotts 1911

"Ef ye're plumb sot on gittin 'larnin' why don't ye git hit right hyar in these mountings?"

The Call of the Cumberlands Charles Neville Buck 1904

Th 'larnin' iv him wud sind Father Kelly back to his grammar.

Mr. Dooley's Philosophy Finley Peter Dunne 1901

Mrs. Warren had a great contempt for education, nevertheless she urged Si's "larnin" as a point in his favor.

The Durket Sperret, 1898

Almost every word was introduced by a harmless swear, the droll thing being that my brother simply took it as a matter of course, and never laughed unless some unusually inventive oath combination was interjected; if the pupil confined himself to ordinary swearing, there was no interruption; he was allowed to rattle along in his own voluble way, letting fly vigorously at the inventor of "larnin '."

The Shellback's Progress In the Nineteenth Century Walter Runciman 1892

Do you think I'd let him, who don't do a hand's stirrin 'towards feedin' and clothin 'my children, take one of them away from gettin' larnin 'for nothin'?

Master William Mitten: or, A Youth of Brilliant Talents, Who Was Ruined by Bad Luck 1864