"Abide ye—abide ye, my daughter," said Father Clement; "let us do even this folly decently and in order.
— from Joan of the Sword Hand by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett

A smile of the delicate, instinctive mouth, of the blue eyes shining between curled lids, under dark eyebrows; of the innocent white nose; of the whole soft, milk-white face.
— from Anne Severn and the Fieldings by May Sinclair

Maintes fois por esbanoier Se vient en cest leu umbroier Déduit et les gens qui le sivent, 610 Qui en joie et en solas vivent.
— from Chaucer's Works, Volume 1 (of 7) — Romaunt of the Rose; Minor Poems by Geoffrey Chaucer

And once she approached the professor of dancing secretly in the dancing-hall, and being desperately in love with him, said to him—“I shall not be able to live for a moment without you, and the king Harivara, when he hears of it, will not tolerate it, so come, let us depart elsewhere, where the king will not find us out.
— from The Kathá Sarit Ságara; or, Ocean of the Streams of Story by active 11th century Somadeva Bhatta