reckoning
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An old vessel's a perfect pickpocket to owners; and if this old thing hasn't opened their purses as bad as her own seams, I'll miss my reckonin'.
From Manuel Pereira by Adams, F. Colburn (Francis Colburn)
You're younger than me by years I don't fancy reckonin'.
From The Man in the Twilight by Cullum, Ridgwell
I didn't adjust my compasses last night, an' I guess I'll have to sail by dead reckonin'.
From The Vision of Elijah Berl by Nason, Frank Lewis
Owd Stooansnatch wor reckonin to caant up his brass, an' in a bit he says,—'Tha'rt reight, Joa, lad, it's mine; awm just hauf-a-craan short, soa tha can give it me.'
From Yorksher Puddin' A Collection of the Most Popular Dialect Stories from the Pen of John Hartley by Hartley, John
But if you don't flummux me by asking questions, I'll do my best to tell yer all about it, and yer'll see as I'm not very far out in my reckonin'.
From Long Live the King by Boothby, Guy
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