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  • The opening for a couple of bare fisted investigators wasn't what you might call promisin '.

    Shorty McCabe Sewell Ford 1907

  • After gettin 'it fixed, an' promisin 'him 'twas fur the last time, she's ripped it all up again 'cause she's seen some picter in a book she liked better.

    Flood Tide Sara Ware Bassett 1920

  • Leavin 'you here on our hands when he went away – an' promisin 'to send board money for you.

    The Camp Fire Girls in the Woods, or Bessie King's First Council Fire 1914

  • 'Twas the harder for en 'cause all looked so more'n common healthy an 'promisin' right up to the rain.

    Lying Prophets Eden Phillpotts 1911

  • "Leavin 'you here on our hands when he went away -- an' promisin 'to send board money for you.

    A Campfire Girl's First Council Fire The Camp Fire Girls In the Woods Jane L. Stewart

  • The garden's lookin 'promisin', "she observed, inviting his opinion.

    Nancy McVeigh of the Monk Road 1921

  • "It was only what we expected, but what we felt, an 'I assure you, Mr. Hooper, even a sailor-man has a heart to break, was bein' told that we able seamen an 'promisin' marines 'ad misled Boy Niven.

    Traffics and Discoveries Rudyard Kipling 1900

  • "But I argied for around an hour an 'told him what Jack could do with a small boat, and how he was such a promisin' kid, and might go to the bad if he signed in any old ship."

    Heinold's First and Last Chance Saloon 2010

  • Mr. Barbour took office in 2004 promisin g not to raise taxes in his first term and hoping he could cut them in his second.

    State Tests Limits of Spending Cuts Deborah Solomon 2010

  • "Only if you can figure a way o" assurin" me o" safe passage out o" -ere, an" promisin" that you won't come huntin" for me and me companions.

    The Lives of Felix Gunderson Sugu Althomsons 2010

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