a-ceasin

Updated: May 18, 2025

You was nigh a-ceasin' to breathe, Joel Rae. In another minute I wouldn't 'a' give the ashes of a rye-straw for your part in the tree of life!" "Yes, yes, man, but go back a little. Where are our people, the sick, the old, and the poor, that we had to leave till now? Tell me, quick." The older man sprang up, the late struggle driven from his mind, his face scowling. He turned upon his questioner.

Harry Leon Wilson - The Lions of the Lord: A Tale of the Old West