It is but foolery, but it is such a kind of gaingiving as would perhaps trouble a woman.
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Gaingiving
Synonyms for "gaingiving"
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"I tell thee what it is, Dick," he growled, "I have a gaingiving come over me, as I think on yonder barn ; it well nigh makes me turn back, now we are within a stone's throw of it, and that's the truth.
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His olden courage is without reproach; Albeit his temper trends toward gaingiving!
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“A hasty withdrawing on thy part, or a gaingiving in thy look, those will serve.”
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