sit tight

By the way, Marshfield, you can sit tight to a horse, I trust?

Mrs. Harris puts it in this way, “If you had said, ‘Sit tight,’ why should I have jumped off?”

Why she should have thought he said “Jump off,” when he said “Sit tight,” neither of them can explain.

I daresay my best plan will be to sit tight, and let her work herself up a bit.

She sit tight as wax, because she think they haunt her if she don't and I too by and by when I dead.

"You sit tight an' mind yore own affairs, stranger," he warned.

"We've just to sit tight and keep our mouths shut, Trendall," he said.

Sit tight and Ill have you there in a jiffy, and then we will take the long road back.

Yes, just sit tight and dont jump and youll be all right, he declared.

Accordingly, he told Bumpus to “sit tight” and watch their luggage.