He was going to sit up and "try an' bring 'er round," as he expressed it.
— from Mrs. Bindle: Some Incidents from the Domestic Life of the Bindles by Herbert George Jenkins
But the people continued to arrive by every road, and hurry to the court-house, and then to the jail, to look up curiously at the windows, and I was so anxious to avoid them and their questions that, after a few minutes with Martin, I hurried back to the jail, and was again admitted, where I found Jo still lying about in his night-clothes, apparently very comfortable and unconcerned.
— from The Story of a Country Town by E. W. (Edgar Watson) Howe
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