Cartin

"Guess you wouldn't want to do any cartin 'as far as Beatonville," laughed Sandy. ❋ Laura Lee Hope (N/A)

Come on there, Serato, git yer lazy imps t 'work cartin' this stuff away. ❋ Victor [pseud.] Appleton (N/A)

"I s'pose you know it would save you a deal of cartin 'if you was to use the stones you're gettin' out to fix up your wall." ❋ Sara Ware Bassett (1920)

I never had much hand in timber-cartin 'myself; but this man .... ❋ Eric Parker (1912)

Behind her comes a couple of station porters, one cartin 'an old-time black valise, and the other with his arms wrapped around a full sized featherbed in a blue and white tick. ❋ Sewell Ford (1907)

As for Jarvis, he's got the pink back in his cheeks, and is holdin 'his chin up once more, and when we left in the mornin' he was out bossin 'a couple of hundred lab'rers that was takin' that hill in wheelbarrows and cartin 'it off where it wouldn't interfere with the lake. ❋ Sewell Ford (1907)

Anyhow, 'most anybody would rather get their own mail private than have Zach Bloomer cartin' it from land-knows-where to never-and-gone, smellin 'it all up with old tobacco pipes and fish or whatever else he carries' round in his pockets. ❋ Joseph Crosby Lincoln (1907)

Haulin ''em out of their graves and -- and unwrappin' 'em like -- like bundles, and cartin ''em off to museums. ❋ Joseph Crosby Lincoln (1907)

Here I was, though, cartin 'a strange gent up to her front door, on his guess that he's her long lost Romeo. ❋ Sewell Ford (1907)

"The idea of Raish Pulcifer's cartin 'him' way over here and then leavin 'him in the middle of the road," she said. ❋ Joseph Crosby Lincoln (1907)

Knew what he was carryin ', Vincent did, and the chance he was taking; but he put over the act off hand, as if he was cartin' in a case of malted milk to a foundling hospital. ❋ Sewell Ford (1907)

Most of the ladies came themselves, rollin 'up in limousines or tourin' cars and cartin 'home their own stuff. ❋ Sewell Ford (1907)

I didn't know your fat friend was in the car, anyway, and I thinks Frenchy might as well be cartin 'her home in the rain as blockin' traffic on some side street. ❋ Sewell Ford (1907)

That's what I'm cartin 'home this little mite of seaweed for, to bed down the pig sty. ❋ Joseph Crosby Lincoln (1907)

The man said if I took him I'd have to pay fer cartin 'away his carcass, but I said,' All right, I ❋ Alice Caldwell Hegan Rice (1906)

I don't 'ave no ---- y doctor messing round' ere an 'cartin' 'im orf to the' orspital afore 'e's paid' is rent. ' ❋ May Sinclair (1904)

To be gone on a girl like he was and only see her of an evenin 'and then not be able to get any nearer her, because of havin' to make polite remarks to that wretched kid she was always cartin 'round. ❋ May Sinclair (1904)

The man said if I took him I 'd have to pay fer cartin' away his carcass, but I said, 'All right, I' ll take him, anyway. ' ❋ Unknown (1902)

"Many's the time I've paid my toll 'ere in my cartin' days." ❋ Jack London (1896)

"What ye been cartin 'upstairs?" she asked in a mildly curious voice. ❋ Unknown (1894)