Quotation from: The Valley of the Moon

Written by: Jack London

"Yes," she said. "I saw it all. It seemed he must have hung there
for hours."

"It was all over, from first to last, in five minutes."

"It seemed ages and ages."

"I guess that's the way it seemed to Jelly Belly, stuck on the
pickets," Billy smiled grimly. "But he's a hard one to kill. He's
been shot an' cut up a dozen different times. But they say now
he'll be crippled for life--have to go around on crutches, or in
a wheel-chair. That'll stop him from doin' any more dirty work
for the railroad. He was one of their top gun-fighters--always up
to his ears in the thick of any fightin' that was goin' on. He
never was leery of anything on two feet, I'll say that much
for'm."