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"Ha! ha-a!" laughed Sam through a mouthful of pie-crust. "Ho! ho!" cried the old woman, with a look of surprise, "yous bery brav boy, I dessay, but if dem roberts doos kum back, you soon laugh on wrong side ob de mout', for dey screw yous limbses off, an' ho! skrunch yous teeth hout, an' roast you 'live, so you better heat w'at yous can an' go hof fast as you couldn't."
R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne - The Battery and the Boiler: Adventures in Laying of Submarine Electric Cables

"And a mercy it was that he wasn't smashed to splinters, with spiled looks and half his limbses orf," she said. "Why, bless you, Mr. Pash, could I let my sunbeam marry a man as wasn't all there, 'eart of gold though he may have?
Fergus Hume - The Opal Serpent
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