surprisin

_A_-mazin 'I like you, my dear! but it is what you might call surprisin', to leave a little maid in a blue pinafore, and to come back and find a princess in gold and velvet.

Captain January Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards 1896

But th 'surprisin' thing about this here island is that it ain't got nothin 'livin' on it except the most beautiful women in all the

Captain Scraggs or, The Green-Pea Pirates Gordon [Illustrator] Grant 1918

You see, he's been with me sittin 'in his chair for the last four years, as I sat beside him sewin', and he was great company, Bill was, for all he was so sick; for he had great sperrits, and could argue somethin 'surprisin' and grand.

The Second Chance Nellie L. McClung 1912

You see, he's been with me sittin 'in his chair for the last four years, as I sat beside him sewin', and he was great company, Bill was, for all he was so sick; for he had great sperrits, and could argue somethin 'surprisin' and grand.

The Second Chance 1910

Dummness runs in that family so, it's somepin 'surprisin'!

Tillie, a Mennonite Maid; a Story of the Pennsylvania Dutch Helen Reimensnyder Martin 1903

"Perhaps we can do a bit o 'surprisin'," he explained.

The Rover Boys out West Or, The Search for a Lost Mine Edward Stratemeyer 1896

I believe they tuned up higher and louder when I went in -- it wouldn't be nothin 'surprisin' if they did, some as the brass band strikes up as the hero enters.

Samantha at the World's Fair Marietta Holley 1881

"Well, sir! the brimstone names that Fatty called that man was somethin 'surprisin' to hear.

The Depot Master Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907

It was a mos 'surprisin' circumstance, sah -- a mos 'surprisin' circumstance. "

Keith of the Border Randall Parrish 1890

I've ben doin 'a lot of figurin' this week, an 'it's most surprisin'.

THE APOSTATE: written by Jack London 2010