He was here a minute ago he'll be back presently he said praying to whatever gods he served that Anderson bound and gagged in the billiard room had not yet returned to consciousness - The Bat by Avery Hopwood Mary Roberts Rinehart

Yes m'dear we are all of us safe until morning time enough to reach Le Portel and to be aboard the Day Dream before mine amiable friend M Chambertin has discovered his worthy colleague lying gagged and bound inside the chapel of the Holy Sepulchre - El Dorado by Baroness Orczy

James hastily removed his shirt tore it into strips gagged his enemy tied his hands and feet and dragged him into the hut - The History of Company A, Second Illinois Cavalry by Samuel H. Fletcher