155 examples of givin' in sentences

Like ALADIN'S lamp, you can By merely givin' a rub, Bring around most any man, By fillin' him up with grub.

He knew the Colonel didn't "really and truly have to do this kind of thing; he just didn't like givin' in."

As it is, those painted devils are givin' us sich a lesson as will cause every man here to fight until the death, rather than so much as hint that we might trust to the enemy's promises.

' sort, and I scurcely ever kiss a grown-up person; but here's my hand, and here's a kiss,"with an old-fashioned smack that might have been heard in the next room,"for a token that you may always come to me as freely as if I was your mother, relyin' upon my givin' you my honest advice and opinion concernin' any affair that you may ask for counsel upon.

"I couldn't help givin' a peek tew the will, and there I see not Hiram Flint nor Josiah Flint, but Bewlah Flint, wrote every which way, but as plain as the nose on yer face.

O' course, he oughtn't to ha' done it, but the cap'n's a masterful man, an' I can quite understand Mr. Wilks givin' way; I dessay I should myself if I'd been in 'is placehe's all 'art, is Mr. Wilksno 'ead.

It's like givin' up some of myself.

"The colonel's a-givin' it to him," thought John, with a grin.

"If my missus started playin' any o' them monkey tricks on me, givin' the wrong change an' sich, I'd put it acrost 'er," he said.

But still, all their cackle unheedin', She goes, in her ladylike way, A-givin' the poor what they're needing And helpin' the church every day: Our numbers each Sunday is swelling And real, true religion is rife,

"It's got no more notion o' givin' up than me nor Barney,not a bit."

He said it was "givin' away what yer didn't want yerself."

"Now I'm givin' you a true statement.

I've been givin' the matter some thought, an' intend to help you out, if you'll let me.

I declare ye're afther givin' me such a fright, I don't know whether I am on me head or on me heels.

So would they mind givin' me another job?

And they did, after givin' me their names, and tellin' me to be sure to have the bottles sent on jest as soon as could be.

"And the dogwouldn' 'e like something?" "Well, since you mention itbut it's givin' you a 'eap of trouble.

"What d'yer mean by it, givin' folks a shock like that?" she demanded.

It seemed like he was givin' her

have to face our Waterloo some time durin' our lives, when we have fought the battle and lost, when the ground is covered with slain Hopes, Ambition, Happiness, when the music is stilled, the stringed instruments and drums broken to pieces, or givin' out only wailin' accompaniments to the groans and cries of the dyin' layin' low in the dust.

In another is a Cardinal givin' his benediction to thousands of the happy workers.

As I told Josiah one night to Miss Huff's, as I laid down a paper givin' the details of a bloody battle which wuz headed "A Great Victory.

We're goin' to have a big Harvest Entertainment for the benefit of the Grange, and you do have such a talent for gittin' up sunthin' interestin', your advice would be onvaluable about ornamentin' the hall and givin' 'em all a equal show.

"Of course it's rather hard papers on us, you know, givin' up everything, so to speak; but it's for your good, and we ain't goin' back on you," said the Left Bower, "are we, boys?"

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