You can poke them a little and make a guess at the shape, and you can rattle them a little and make a guess at the size, but you can't ever open them and prove them—until the money is paid down and gone forever from your hands.
— from The Indiscreet Letter by Eleanor Hallowell Abbott

“If you’ve got anything to say before you go out—say it!”
— from Doors of the Night by Frank L. (Frank Lucius) Packard

“Got anything to say before you go?” asked the skipper.
— from The Wind-Jammers by T. Jenkins (Thornton Jenkins) Hains

You will need all the strength you've got and then some before you catch that Injun!" "What are you going to do?" asked John, seating himself in the sand some few feet from the fissure.
— from The Heart of the Desert Kut-Le of the Desert by Honoré Morrow

I don’t know, sir; we haven’t much to keep hands goin’ at this season, but you can see him yourself.
— from Babes in the Bush by Rolf Boldrewood

May the Lord bless you, ould gentleman, and the SAINTS BLESS YOU!
— from It Is Never Too Late to Mend by Charles Reade

"Be kind to Giuseppe, and the saints bless you!"
— from The Eternal City by Caine, Hall, Sir

The doctor longed to be a miracle-worker, to lift up his hands, just there where he was by the New Gallery, and to say, "Be ye healed!"
— from Flames by Robert Hichens