raisings

When Billy Louise was twelve, she had other ambitions than the making of cookies with "raisings" on them.

The Ranch at the Wolverine 1914

I used to promise them cookies with 'raisings' in the middle.

The Ranch at the Wolverine 1914

It was customary in those days for candidates to attend all manner of neighborhood gatherings -- "raisings" of new cabins, horseraces, shooting-matches, auctions -- anything that served to call the settlers together; and it was social popularity, quite as much as ability to discuss political questions, that carried weight with such assemblies.

The Boys' Life of Abraham Lincoln Helen Nicolay 1910

When I was a kid and went to see Marthy and Jase, I used to promise them cookies with 'raisings' in the middle.

The Ranch at the Wolverine B. M. Bower 1905

When Billy Louise was twelve, she had other ambitions than the making of cookies with "raisings" on them.

The Ranch at the Wolverine B. M. Bower 1905

The pursuit of popularity probably consisted mainly of the same methods that in backwoods districts prevail even to our day: personal visits and solicitations, attendance at various kinds of neighborhood gatherings, such as raisings of new cabins, horse-races, shooting-matches, sales of town lots or of personal property under execution, or whatever occasion served to call a dozen or two of the settlers together.

A Short Life of Abraham Lincoln Nicolay, John G 1904

And ridges of good muscles stiffened now their loins, and their chests were deepening, and at "raisings," when the men and boys of the region wrestled after their work was done, the two were not uncounted.

A Man and a Woman Stanley Waterloo 1879

We had "raisings" in those days, when a new building was put up.

My Boyhood John Burroughs 1879

An habitual drunkard was more welcome at "raisings" and

Abraham Lincoln: a History — Volume 01 John Hay 1870

The pursuit of popularity probably consisted mainly of the same methods that in backwoods districts prevail even to our day: personal visits and solicitations, attendance at various kinds of neighborhood gatherings, such as raisings of new cabins, horse-races, shooting-matches, sales of town lots or of personal property under execution, or whatever occasion served to call a dozen or two of the settlers together.

A Short Life of Abraham Lincoln Condensed from Nicolay & Hay's Abraham Lincoln: A History John George Nicolay 1866