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Naturally I turned my steps toward the home of my youth, and as I drew near the old-fashioned, many-gabled house, with its settled, substantial air, austere yet inviting, its large yard with the huge elms, and the big lamp burning in the library or "sittin'-room," where I first dolefully studied the geography that told me of a world outside, it seemed to bend toward me rather frigidly as if to say reproachfully: "You sold me! you sold me!"

The Romance of an Old Fool Roswell Martin Field 1885

What it is doin 'sittin' yonder, I cannae - but, hollo!

The Sky Writer Geoff Barbanell 2010

I think I had some idea o 'sittin' round 'avin' a big fat spliff wi 'some real down-home Rastas who thought I were great and gassin' on about the pain o 'being an original and what cows women were.

High Society Elton, Ben 2002

We sashayed into the kitchen an 'theah, jus' sittin 'easylike an' waitin 'right on the table, was two or three pies!

Ride Proud, Rebel! Andre Norton 1958

"They're a fine rogues 'gallery when you see them a' sittin 'there," went on the other.

The Underworld The Story of Robert Sinclair, Miner James C. Welsh

I therefore walked fast purely as a matter of principle, in the hope, that the village dames, who I knew were watching my progress from behind the green paper curtains of their 'sittin' room 'windows, might possibly judge from my speed, that I had been called to a patient at last.

The Continental Monthly, Vol 2, No 6, December 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various

An 'sittin' right here in this bunk house, years an 'years after, us cowpunchers get th' real cause o 'th' whole rumpus, which them Washington folks has bin figurin 'out for years, an' couldn't do it none whatever.

Injun and Whitey to the Rescue William S. Hart

I'm juist a 'sair the day wi' sittin 'i' the train; an 'yesterday nicht I cud hardly move oot o' the bit, I was that dune.

My Man Sandy J. B. Salmond

'All very well for you to talk,' said Bill, scornfully, 'sittin' up there eatin 'our Puddin'.

The Magic Pudding Norman Lindsay 1924

An 'sittin' at attention just because it is the rule,

The Path to Home 1920