Rawe , sb. row, Cath.; raw , B, JD, SkD, S3, S2; rowe , SkD; rewe , C, G, W; rewis , pl. , S3.—AS. ráwe , rǽwe .
— from A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 to 1580 by A. L. (Anthony Lawson) Mayhew

When I expressed a wish to know more about Mr. Ballow, Johnson said, 'Sir, I have seen him but once these twenty years.
— from Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood by James Boswell

“Not to marry, but just so,” she added.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

His great companionship was among the trees of the Red Deeps, where the buried joy seemed still to hover, like a revisiting spirit.
— from The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

As Ben Jonson says, Shakespeare had "small Latin and less Greek"—perhaps none—and this was probably due to his leaving the Grammar School before the average age.
— from Shakespeare the Boy With Sketches of the Home and School Life, Games and Sports, Manners, Customs and Folk-lore of the Time by W. J. (William James) Rolfe

[10.1] The author desires to acknowledge his indebtedness at this particular point to "The Pianoforte Sonata," by J. S. Shedlock.
— from How Music Developed A Critical and Explanatory Account of the Growth of Modern Music by W. J. (William James) Henderson

William Hammersley, Gerardus Beekman, John Shurmur, Sidney Breese, Daniel Shatford, Thomas Behenna, Peter Fresneau, Thomas Willett, John Breese, John Hastier, James Tucker, and Brandt Schuyler were sworn to try him.
— from History of the Negro Race in America From 1619 to 1880. Vol 1 Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens by George Washington Williams

``Accolade'' is also a technical term in music-printing for a sort of brace joining separate staves; and in architecture it denotes a form of decoration on doors and windows.
— from The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg

Byron, Jeffrey, Sidney Smith, Campbell, Brougham, and the like.
— from Homes and Haunts of the Most Eminent British Poets, Vol. 2 (of 2) by William Howitt