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  • .... as I spoke to Zonker on the phone about the upcoming festival of carnage otherwise known as the yellin 'in Helen I watched as a tiny wasp chased away a hummingbird.

    Straight White Guy 2008

  • Think of it -- booze-guzzlin 'stiffs that' d be afraid to mix it with a sick cat, not fit to hold the coat of any decent man, think of them a-standin 'up on their hind legs an' yellin 'an' cheerin 'me -- ME!

    CHAPTER X 2010

  • They're all wavin 'their arms an' yellin 'at the other men.

    Chapter 6 2010

  • Why, Saxon, I've fought battles, good ones, frazzlin 'my silk away to beat the band before whisky-soaked, smokin' audiences of rotten fight-fans, that just made me sick clean through. An 'them, that couldn't take just one stiff jolt or hook to jaw or stomach, a-cheerin' me an 'yellin' for blood.

    CHAPTER X 2010

  • Dace put in, "That big gal cryin an 'yellin' at him."

    Calde of the Long Sun Wolfe, Gene 1994

  • Dace put in, "That big gal cryin an 'yellin' at him."

    Calde of the Long Sun Wolfe, Gene 1994

  • HEDGE Can't, with all th 'yellin' and the not speakin 'to each other.

    War for the Oaks Bull, Emma, 1954- 1987

  • We'll pretend to attack them, and raise a great row, firing our guns in the air, and all that sort of thing, an 'yellin' t 'beat th' band.

    Tom Swift in the Caves of Ice, or, the Wreck of the Airship Victor [pseud.] Appleton

  • They're all wavin 'their arms an' yellin 'at the other men.

    Chapter 6 1915

  • Think of it -- booze-guzzlin 'stiffs that' d be afraid to mix it with a sick cat, not fit to hold the coat of any decent man, think of them a-standin 'up on their hind legs an' yellin 'an' cheerin 'me -- ME!

    Chapter 10 1913

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