Wen Maria and me got there most everybodie had ete there plate of hot water, wot the church wardin'd had settin down on one of the oyster stalls at Fulton Market for bout a weak, so as it'd inhail a sa very flaver.
Yer cant cram that stuff down our gullets, no more'n I can stand on this sugar bole without mashin it" said a vile youth, ceasin the sugar bole from the silver tea sarvice and settin his foot onto it.
Believe you me, they are more settin down than they are settin up.
Would have dese long old benchessettin out dere under de trees to work on--long benches, child.
Sam Watson was a rough old overseer en he been so bowlegged dat if he stand straddle a barrel, he be settin down on it just as good as you settin dere.
Yes, honey, I was a little child settin dere in dat chimney corner listenin to all dat scamperin bout en I remember dat day just as good as it had been dis day right here.
You see, child, she such a helpless, poor creature just settin dere in dat bed all de time en can' see to do one thing widout I give her my hand.
Remember I been settin dere wid my milk en my bowl of hominy en I hear my old grandmammy come a runnin in from out de yard en say all de sky was blue as indigo wid de Yankees comin right dere over de hill den.
Remember de first time dem Yankees come dere, I was settin down in de chimney corner en my mammy was givin me my breakfast.
My happy, I can see myselfsettin dere now coolin dem vitals (victuals).
He de one what give me en Maggie dat four room house you see settin dere.
I remember, all us chillun was playin round bout de step one day whe' Miss Ross was settin en she ax dat yellow child, say, 'Who your papa?
Yes, mam, dat been de white people slavery church en dat dey slavery graveyard what settin right dere in front de church, too.
Yes'um, dat old house in de graveyard was one of dem kind dat been settin high off de ground.
I remember dere been a big old sweet gum tree settin dere side de creek dat had a place hollow out in it dat looked just like a chair been made dere.
Learnt something to de white folks meetin house dere to Antioch settin on de back side of dat church on dem benches what de slaves had to set on.
To-night we've got nothin at all to do but to sweep through the deep while the stormy tempests blow in the shape of a mild sou-wester; so don't you begin your usual game of settin up.
You can't do no good a settinor a standin up here, squintin through a darkness that might be felt, an that's as thick as any felt I ever saw.
I wish all the totties wassettin atop o that clift to see Magnificent Arry go aloft.
I can't see over the side, settin on my little sofia.
Dat my picturesettin up dere wid de white blouse on.
I tell dem I ain' got nothin, but I settin here just as satisfied like.
I got one big one up dere on de wall dat show me en my mammy en my son, Sammie, settin in a automobile.
I tell her, it ain' botherin me none, I been settin out in de sun.
Yes, mam, look like she mendin right smart since she been settin up.
Child, you ought to had brought your parasol wid you cause you been settin here so long, you gwine be late gettin whe' you started.
What sense is there in lamentation sae lang's God's eident settin richt a'!
I never jist set mysel to luik, but I dinna think I ever did tak notice o' a worm settin up that heid o' his oot o' a bog.
There wuz a nigger, wich wuz wunst his nigger, wich Linkin deprived him uv, settin under his porch, and a profanin the Holy Bible by teachin his child to read it!
Ther wuz niggers in Kentucky a goin about free, and impiously settin at naught the decrees uv Providence, wich condemned em to be servants uv their brethren; and heer I digressed to eloocydate a pint.
Another great wrong is done in this settin free uv John Guttle's niggers.
Well, there was another chap a settin by the fire, and he DID look as if he saw it and felt it too, he did'nt seem over half pleased, you may depend.
Well then I have, said he, and if he don't look like a fool all the time he is a settin on the eggs, its a pity; no soul could help larfin to see him.
Yes'um, dey had a colored people quarter dat been settin way back up on de hill.
En de slave owners would bury dey plantation niggers right dere to de colored people graveyard behind de church, dat was settin right side de white people graveyard.
I settin here in dis bed day in en day out wid dese old bare eye en I don' know how de people gwine.
Yes, you, dats who, how many cents yu had most fo yer sence freedum cum in de lan, und yu is as ragged as a settin pefowell.
Jes er watchin me now lak a sparrer hawk er settin on er lim!
The men folks would build a big fire and I can remember my Pappy a settin on top of the house at night with a old flint lock across his legs awaiting for one of them critters to come close enough so he could shoot it.
An old woman tole me de war done broke up, and I was settin on de porch.
I don't feel a bit likesettin down and cryin like a sick baby over spilt milk, because we've been whipt in the late elecshins.
The story I'll tell jest as it tuk place: The mornin after New Year's I cum down stairs, an the Kernel was settin in his cheer with his feet on the tabil.
Course dey was Yankee soldierssettin the colored folks all free.
Miss Sneers was settin on that silken bench, dressed out in a ruffled white frock, and with her hair twisted back in a hurry, and kinder tousled up with a gold chain in it, as if she hadn't touched it since the night afore.
It raly made my dander rise tu see it, and me a settinthere as lonesome as git out.
Und all dou e'er on eart has done, From oop gang oontil settin sun, Vill pe ash nix - I schvear py Thor!
Ye'd be a darnation fool ter let her slip through yer fingers naow, arter riskin yer neck an all aour necks in this ere job jess ter git a holt of her, an a settin sech store by her ez ye allers hev.
But quhan at the gloamin a sea-breeze keen Blew intil the glimsome room, Like twa settin stars she opened her een, And the sea-flooer began to bloom.
Yes, mam, down dere in dat grove of pecans dat you see settin side de road, when you be gwine down next to Centenary.
Den we would chisel de top of de stump down all round de edges till we had us a right sharp peg settin up in de middle of de stump.
I be settin here lookin for dat top up dere to be tumblin down on me de next crack en seems like it does give me such a misery in my head.
Honey, you mind if I smoke my pipe a lil whilst I settinhere talkin wid you.
When it come on me, I was settin down wid my foots in a tub of water.
Yes'um, dis a bad little girl settin here in my lap en dat one over dere in de bed, he a boy what a right smart larger den dis one.
Yes, mam, I tellin de truth, honey, dese chillun keeps me settin here listenin wid all my ears en lookin wid all my eyes, but dey is right sorta entertainin like.
When I got dere, I open de gate en look up en dere been de new house en dere been de old one settin over dere what dey been usin for de kitchen den.
Some of dey house was settin side de road, some over in dat corner, some next de big house en so on like dat all over de place.
I besiege your most noble onnur to ponderate mercifooly of these thinks, and of a dockin of the entail, and of a settin of the deeds of the lawyers to work.
His younk onnur, I knows, will be a willin enough; that is, settin the case of a proviso of a doosoor consideration in ready rhino for himself.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "settin" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
