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... and arranging to prove very lucrative to any bookseller after his death), he laid himself down on my bed in a mood of complacent resignation. By the aid of meat and drink put into him (for I all along suspected a vacuum) he was enabled to sit up in the evening, but he had not got the better of his intolerable fear of dying; he expressed such philosophic indifference in his speech and such frightened apprehensions in his physiognomy that if he had truly been dying, and I had known it, I could not have kept my countenance. ...

— The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb, Vol. 5 • Edited by E. V. Lucas

... weel sleep," said the Laird, with the anxious feelings of a father in such a predicament, "till I hear she's gatten ower with it—and if you, sir, are not very sleepry, and would do me and the Dominie the honour to sit up wi' us, I am sure we shall not detain you very late. Luckie Howatson is very expeditious;—there was ance a lass that was in that way—she did not live far from hereabouts—ye needna shake your head and groan, Dominie—I am sure the kirk dues were a' weel paid, and what can ...

— Guy Mannering • Sir Walter Scott

... grazed the edge of death," he whispered. "I'll sit up now and you can do the rest of the ...

— The Lords of the Wild - A Story of the Old New York Border • Joseph A. Altsheler

... in the dark for a while and then came near again and felt me, making sure where my head was. He made me sit up. ...

— Andivius Hedulio • Edward Lucas White

... understand, sir, if you please, that while you do me the honor to live under my roof you will return to it at night at a respectable hour. I will not sit up for you in this way. You will be in at ...

— The Awakening of Helena Richie • Margaret Deland

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