Only the rear doors were vulnerable at all, and these simply led through the kitchen to the cells, or right and left into the yard, at the end of which, and all along one side, abutting the rotunda, were the workshops, while the other side was impregnable with its twenty-foot wall.
— from The Incendiary: A Story of Mystery by William Augustine Leahy

“To unlock his jaws, I told 'im me 'n' you already knowed the facts, so you might as well take that stand, give 'im plenty o' rope an' let 'im tell you all about it.
— from Pole Baker: A Novel by Will N. (Will Nathaniel) Harben