saying

At length the servant returned, saying his master was now ready to see them.

Eudora took it with a deep blush, saying, "Aspasia gave it to me."

Then I heard a voice, saying, 'Lo, the soul seeketh to ascend!'

That seemed short enough—but after studying it, I says, What's the use of saying 'eat'?

I thanked her; and she withdrew to read them; saying, she would return them, when she had.

"When you came through the town you waked me up like a whiplash," he was saying.

"I can't tell you what I mean," he was saying in explanation.

She kept on saying to herself that Mamma didn't know; she didn't know what she had done.

She was saying in a thick, soft voice, "It was wrong of you, my darling."

And so saying, George ran out into the street and made his way towards Islington.