Hannah can take him; I won't have a great boy stompin' out the carpets and ruinin' the furniture, though I know when
I'm dead I can't hinder ye, if you make up your mind to do anything."
Rebecca Of Sunnybrook Farm
I want to do something splendid before I go into my castle, something heroic or wonderful that won't be forgotten after
I'm dead. I don't know what, but I'm on the watch for it, and mean to astonish you all some day.
Little Women
"
I'm dead, sure enough, and this thing is in charge."
Captains Courageous
"And last of all, Pip - and this I want to say very serious to you, old chap - I see so much in my poor mother, of a woman drudging and slaving and breaking her honest hart and never getting no peace in her mortal days, that
I'm dead afeerd of going wrong in the way of not doing what's right by a woman, and I'd fur rather of the two go wrong the t'other way, and be a little ill-conwenienced myself.
Great Expectations
"There
I'm dead against you, and clearly with the trapper," interrupted Paul Hover.
The Prairie
So, good-by, sir; if you hear that I'm taken, you may know that
I'm dead!"
Uncle Toms Cabin
"So, sir, you've been paying ten per cent for money which you've promised to pay off by mortgaging my land when
I'm dead and gone, eh?
Middlemarch
The business will go on, when
I'm dead, as well as it did when I was alive--just the same-- and I shall have the satisfaction of knowing that there never were such books--never were such books!
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
I'm dead; only I don't see why he left out the 'In Memoriam' on the ribbons!"
Actions and Reactions
I wouldn't have you know it by somebody else, and not by me--I wouldn't have you find it out after
I'm dead. I'll tell you now.
Silas Marner
"When
I'm dead I think I'll FEEL dead all the rest of the year, but when spring comes I'm sure I'll feel like getting up and being alive again."
The Golden Road
"Well, all I hope," said Miss Cornelia calmly, "is that when
I'm dead nobody will call me `our departed sister.' I took a scunner at this sister-and-brothering business five years ago when there was a travelling evangelist holding meetings at the Glen.
Annes House of Dreams
"Oh, centuries and centuries; so long," she said, "that I'm sure
I'm dead and buried, and this dear old place is heaven;" which, for reasons he could not define, struck Newland Archer as an even more disrespectful way of describing New York society.
The Age of Innocence
cheat it then?" The Queen after examining selfservice checkouts at Sainsbury's "Now it's over, I feel bereft, I don't exist any more,
I'm dead. I liked having the same name as him because it was the only thing that gave me any fame.
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