(bregd-) ± brǣdan (e) I. to make broad, extend, spread, stretch out , BH ; AO: be extended, rise, grow .
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

Jess, the Scotch collie, who was always left to guard the tents in their owners' absence, sat at her usual post within the door; and she and Brown exchanged repressed growls at the strangers.
— from Mackinac and Lake Stories by Mary Hartwell Catherwood

Turning in my grasp he whispered with a scarcely audible, but exceedingly repulsive, giggle: "Haven't I given her a good fright, eh?" Then he added: "Now, let me go!
— from Through Russia by Maksim Gorky

The Prime Minister and Bransome exchanged rapid glances.
— from The Illustrious Prince by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim

Electricity, mechanics: form A, by Earl R. Glenn and Ellsworth S. Obourn.
— from U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1953 January - June by Library of Congress. Copyright Office

While in Washington Bob and Betty each received good news that sent them trustfully to Oklahoma, there to meet Uncle Dick Gordon, and later, Bob's own aunts.
— from Betty Gordon at Boarding School; Or, The Treasure of Indian Chasm by Alice B. Emerson

"Let the divisions be natural , such as obviously suggest themselves to the mind, and as may aid your main design, and be easily remembered."— Goldsbury's Manual of Gram. , p. 91.
— from The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown

Darwin worked at his rough notes on the variation of animals and plants under domestication, adding facts collected by “printed enquiries, by conversations with skilful breeders and gardeners, and by extensive reading,” gleams of light coming till he says that he is “almost convinced that species are not (it is like confessing a murder) immutable.”
— from Pioneers of Evolution from Thales to Huxley With an Intermediate Chapter on the Causes of Arrest of the Movement by Edward Clodd

Bob was as independent as ever, declared he would not plead guilty, but the persuasions of sister and aunt finally prevailed, and when taken into court on Saturday in the same manner as before, each responded “GUILTY,” when the question was asked by the clerk.
— from The Northfield Tragedy; or, the Robber's Raid A Thrilling Narrative; A history of the remarkable attempt to rob the bank at Northfield, Minnesota; the Cold-Blooded Murder of the Brave Cashier and an Inoffensive Citizen. The Slaying of Two of the Brigands. The Wonderful Robber Hunt and Capture Graphically Described. Biographies of the Victims, the Captors & the Notorious Younger and James Gang of Desperadoes by J. H. (Joseph Have) Hanson