Word: prayin
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...satin dress, spangled with sequins, which swept away from her trim ankles. Her face was beautiful, with the rich, ripe beauty of southern darkness, a, deep bronze brown, like her bare arms. . . . She began her strange rites in a 'voice full of shoutin' and moanin' and prayin' and sufferin', a wild, rough Ethiopian voice, harsh and volcanic, released between rouged lips and the whitest of teeth, the singer swaying slightly to the rhythm...
...There was niver any fun in Ireland, me lad-it was always a wailin' and a weepin' country. Hearts full of the great sadness and stomicks empty of food-fools prayin' to God, and starvin' on their knays. Ireland at its bist was a hard country-we lived wit the pigs and the geese-we petted thim an' thin we ate thim." Grandfather Tully lived through the Great Famine "a-suckin' the wind and drinkin' the rain on the bogs,'' then migrated to Ohio there to continue his ditching, peddling, champion...