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  • If you was, you'd hang 'thout rampin' around an 'roarin'.

    JAN, THE UNREPENTANT 2010

  • Climbed into cage o' roarin' lions and didn't care a rap!

    Archive 2007-05-01 Divers 2007

  • "A Presbitree Meetin '!" read oot Sandy; an 'you wudda thocht the Smith an' Bandy Wobster were genna ding doon the hoose wi 'their noise an' roarin 'an' lauchin '.

    My Man Sandy J. B. Salmond

  • You see the crood o 'men, sae, they're a' roarin 'thegither.

    My Man Sandy J. B. Salmond

  • I bet he's rubbin 'it yit an' roarin 'like a bull.

    The Unknown Wrestler 1910

  • She thried to sink her venomous fangs into his wish-bone, but with incredulous swiftness, he back-heeled an 'upper-cut her, swung left to body an' right to point iv jaw, an 'with wan last grimace iv defiance th' gr-reat bulk iv th 'monsther fell tin thousand feet into th' roarin 'torrent an' took th 'count.

    Mr. Dooley Says Finley Peter Dunne 1901

  • Kate was a little worried, but her companion sat quite unmoved, even when Bradley returned and reported the creek "roarin '."

    Laramie Holds the Range 1898

  • Here was angry watter an 'roarin' win '; here was danger an' fear: the man had to trust or gang doon.

    Donal Grant, by George MacDonald George MacDonald 1864

  • I s 'gang doon to Lucky Leary's, and fill mysel' roarin 'fou, an' it'll be a 'your wyte (blame).'

    Robert Falconer George MacDonald 1864

  • The snaw literally fell in a solid mass, and every now and then the wind cam 'roarin' and howlin 'frae the hills, and the fury o' the drift was terrible.

    Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume XXII Alexander Leighton 1837

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