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Examples
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I don't miss my old smoothbore, and that's a fact, though I did a heap o" missin" with it when I carried it.
The Guns Of The South Turtledove, Harry 1960
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You're always tellin 'what kinder weather it's gwinter be to-morrow an' missin 'it.
The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills John Trotwood Moore
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I ain't gettin 'no fun out o' missin 'sleep and leavin' here at six bells myself.
Act I, Scene ii 1920
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Clint, an 'missin' him, an 'I got shaky and no good.
Northern Lights, Volume 1. Gilbert Parker 1897
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Clint, an 'missin' him, an 'I got shaky and no good.
The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker Gilbert Parker 1897
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Clint, an 'missin' him, an 'I got shaky and no good.
Northern Lights, Complete Gilbert Parker 1897
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At first I usen't to sleep at nights, thinkin 'of Clint, an' missin 'him, an' I got shaky and no good.
Northern Lights Gilbert Parker 1897
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Have I no telled you till I'm tired tellin 'you, that there was no' be no shootin 'till there was no fear o' missin '?
Bog-Myrtle and Peat Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from the Years 1889 to 1895 1887
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Three thousand of 'em killed, wounded an 'missin' shows that efforts to list the trip onder the head of "picnics" would be irony.
Wolfville Nights Alfred Henry Lewis 1885
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There's no chance o 'missin', so what 'ud be the use o' keepin 'yer eyes open, excep' to get 'em filled wi 'smoke.
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