s-s-set

Updated: May 12, 2025

I'll h-h-hang the lantern on the sill. I d-d-dassent take it down there, might s-s-set fire to the hay. I'm all r-r-right I mean you're all r-r-right. Get out the way. I'm c-c-c-comin'!" In an instant he had leaped down beside her and put his arm around her quivering shoulders.

Evelyn Raymond - The Brass Bound Box

What would send you to the police station only gives us a thirst. S-s-set out another bottle." It is slow work trying to meet death by that route. Some quicker way must be found. They leave the saloon and plunge again into the mist. The sidewalks are mere flanges at the base of the houses; the street a cold ravine, the fog filling it like a freshet. Not far away is the Mexican quarter.

O. Henry - Rolling Stones