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"Ye Spaniards, quake! our doughty Drake a royal swan is tested, On wing and oar, from shore to shore, the raging main who breasted: But never needs to chant his deeds, like swan that lies a-dying, So far his name, by trump of fame, around the sphere is flying." "Hillo ho! schoolmaster!" shouted a voice from behind; "move on, and make way for Father Neptune!"
'When will you be ready to start? he said. Yossel pondered. 'But to die in Palestine one must live in Palestine, he said. 'I cannot be certain that God would take my soul the moment I set foot on the holy soil. The artist reflected a moment, but scarcely felt rich enough to guarantee that Yossel should live in Palestine, especially if he were an unconscionably long time a-dying.
And when I got up next day, I found it hard to think on the real Jerry Dixon I had seen the night before, apart from the sad and sorrowful Jerry I thought on a-dying, when I were between sleeping and waking.
'I thought you'd come, squire. Your father came for to see my father as he lay a-dying. 'Come, come, my man! said the squire, easily affected, as he always was. 'Don't talk of dying, we shall soon have you out, never fear. They've sent you up some soup from the Hall, as I bade 'em, haven't they? 'Ay, ay, I've had all as I could want for to eat and to drink.
That was perhaps the reason why the senior John Jacomo di Trivulcio, whilst he was a-dying at Chartres, called for his cutlass, and died with a drawn sword in his hand, laying about him alongst and athwart around the bed and everywhere within his reach, like a stout, doughty, valorous and knight-like cavalier; by which resolute manner of fence he scared away and put to flight all the devils that were then lying in wait for his soul at the passage of his death.
My father loved thee well; and as he lay a-dying he thought he saw thee on a great river, with thy face turned towards thy Margaret, but sore disfigured. Is't so, perchance? Have cruel men scarred thy sweet face? or hast thou lost one of thy precious limbs?
"Well, miss," she said, "Lord, to think that I sha'n't be able to call you that no longer I haven't got nothing in particular to say agin it, seeing that sure enough the man's a-dying, as I has on good authority from my own aunt's cousin, her that does the servants' washing up at the Hall, and mighty bad she does it, begging of her pardon for the disparagement, and so he won't trouble you for long, and somehow it do seem as though you hadn't got no choice left in the matter, just as though everybody and everything was a-quietly pushing you into it.
It was altogether a sad time in the dentist's house; and Tom Halliday apologised to his friend more than once for the trouble he had brought upon him. If he had been familiar with the details of modern history, he would have quoted Charles Stuart, and begged pardon for being so long a-dying. But anon there came a gleam of hope.
Is it my child that lies a-dying?" said the shadow, springing forwards, and clutching poor Susan's arm. "It is a little child of two years old. I do not know whose it is; I love it as my own. Come with me, whoever you are; come with me." The two sped along the silent streets as silent as the night were they. They entered the house; Susan snatched up the light, and carried it upstairs.
"She has a mother, ma'am," said the steward, "who is lying a-dying at Holyhead, and she frets greatly for her." We were told afterwards that this lady has for twenty years crossed the sea annually to visit her mother, though she never could make the passage without swooning.
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