"Wal," ses Linkin, "I think that is a good plan, Majer; and if you will go along with me, I will go down there, and if I don't straiten things out there, my name ain't Abe Linkin.
"Letters of Major Jack Downing, of the Downingville Militia"
Seba Smith
But yet in an hour, I did have the cloak about her, again; and so did straiten matters, as you shall conceive.
"The Night Land"
William Hope Hodgson
I absolutely must reform, for I do not propose that my father shall straiten himself for me; and that is what will happen if I continue to lead the life I have been leading.
"San-Cravate; or, The Messengers; Little Streams"
Charles Paul de Kock