leanin

God put him here, an 'look at the way He made him live; look at this house; see the floor, how the water runs down into that corner: it is all sagged an' leanin '-- the whole thing is rotten look at that one window, up against the wall; not a ray of sunshine ever struck it.

John Ward, Preacher Margaret Wade Campbell Deland 1901

There's an intimacy demonstrated there, a oneness with our Lord in the 'leanin', so like a child in a loving Father's arms.

Leanin' on the Lord's Side Meg 2008

If I let him go he might hang hisself ter the nex 'leanin' tree.

Children of the Bush Henry Lawson 1894

She wuz gwine thu a dark place in de woods w'en suddintly she seed a young man all wrop up in a sof 'gray blankit an' leanin '' gins 'a tree.

The Wit and Humor of America, Volume V. (of X.) Various 1887

Justifyin 'yourself by works instead o' leanin 'onto Him!

By Shore and Sedge Bret Harte 1869

'em, they appeared dreadful interested; they sot kind o 'leanin' forrards, with their meouths not more 'n harf --' n 'sartin not more' n a quarter ways -- shet; an 'when I'd got through, they giv' me another reousin 'three cheers ag'in.

Vesty of the Basins Sarah P. McLean Greene 1895

I'm kind of leanin 'toward the Dawes woman, myself. "

Cy Whittaker's Place Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907

"'Give me room!' says he, kind o 'leanin' back on the crowd.

In Exile and Other Stories Mary Hallock Foote 1892

"'Turn your game!' says this Holliday, when his money is down, an 'leanin' back to light a seegyar.

Wolfville Nights Alfred Henry Lewis 1885

"No signs of him back yonder, but there's blood-tracks beginnin 'in the middle of the road, an' leanin 'along this way.

Romance of California Life John Habberton 1881