"Let me take a spell in your place," says he.
The engineer was taking a short spell off duty, leaving his assistant in charge.
He's scared to leave home for fear his mother will take a spell and nobody there but the hired girl.
But when she takes a sick spell there's a fuss!
While Eddie took a spell on watch, I went inside to drink some coffee and warm up.
Once in a while a stone like this will take a better spell and locate dollar bills.
I'll be out in a few minutes to take a spell with Carson and Young.
Besides, he was always ready to relieve any man who wished to take a spell ashore for a time.
She had taken a null-grief spell, but still it hurt.
It took me a spell, working that out in my mind, to get the sense of it.