Pilin

But lo and behold! come to pry into things, and look about and find out, as the poet sez, that wuzn't a real ship a-sailin 'round, as it looked like, but it wuz built up on what they call pilin' -- jest as if Josiah should stick sticks up on the edge of the creek, and build a hen-house on 'em, or anything. ❋ Marietta Holley (1881)

We use ter watch the steamers, and the 'hathis "pilin'"teak. ❋ Harold Piffard (N/A)

Then we got the dish-pan an 'tried layin' Elijah face down across it an 'pilin' books on his back to keep the right place in front soakin ', but even that didn't help. ❋ Anne Warner (1891)

It made my very bones ache to think o 'pilin' them eight children 'n' the minister on top o 'father,' n 'then the next night it was a good jump out to that farm, f'r I never was one to know any species o' fellow-feelin 'with pigs' n 'milkin'. ❋ Anne Warner (1891)

So in this way they continually met, and made the most awful and roarin 'pilin' up of waves that ever was known. ❋ Unknown (1884)

"Dey gits dirty ag'in right off, an 'den you got ter wash 'em ovuh ag'in; it 's jes' pilin 'up wuk what don' fetch in nuffin '. ❋ Unknown (1895)

Meanwhile, Sarah Palin is wading back into the warm bowels of victimhood, whining that everyone's pilin 'on about her steppin' down. ❋ Unknown (2009)

But moar dan da lawndree wuz pilin upp in dat nawtee barn… ❋ Unknown (2008)

I was walkin 'home when I saw these jokers pilin' into you. ❋ Asprin, Robert (1987)

That big old boat started t 'sink More people kept a-pilin' on, ❋ Dylan, Bob, 1941- (1962)

If the paper work's pilin 'up,' I said, 'it's because somebody isn't pulling his share. ❋ Randall Garrett (1957)

Deb never did have a light hand for such things, and she's a-messin 'in there with my flour bin, and pilin' tons of coal on the fire, for I've been watchin 'the smoke, and I can tell, and if I'm kept out here till dark, I'll maintain a promised wife comes before a sister!' ❋ Amy Le Feuvre (N/A)

He knowed he was right, but he also knowed he'd disobeyed orders, an 'he just kept pilin' right in till he got his. ❋ William S. Hart (N/A)

I don't want every lazyjake in the country pilin 'in here to hear what a bad man he's been, and dirty the carpets up. ❋ Various (N/A)

We useter watch the steamers and the _hathis_ pilin 'teak. ❋ Various (N/A)

Women cleared land by rollin 'logs into piles and pilin' brush in de new grounds. ❋ Various (N/A)

We useter watch the steamers an 'the hathis pilin' teak. ❋ Various (N/A)

If you wanter preach a sermon on the folly of pilin 'up money, "he went on half ironically," here is yo' tex '. ❋ John Trotwood Moore (N/A)

That there was a yaller streak in me that was already pilin 'up coupons on the future for tears and heartaches an', maybe a gallows or two, an 'a lot of uncomplimentary talk of that kind. ❋ John Trotwood Moore (N/A)

[Avi], you're todo pilin, [buey]. Rene, why do you have to be a pilin??? Avi, don't be such a pilin; what's [the worst that could happen]? ❋ Bob (2005)

Bovi-Oye [Yoni]!!! Rene-Palaim, Palaim. Avi-Bovi, [callate] [tas] todo pilin. ❋ Avilanche (2005)