young, S, S2, S3, W, PP; ȝung , S; ȝonge , G; yonge , S, C2; yunge , S; ȝyng , S3; gunge , S; iunge , S; yhung , S2; ying , S3, G; ȝing , S3, G; yonger , comp. , S; ȝeunger , S; ȝungre , S; gungest , superl.
— from A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 to 1580 by A. L. (Anthony Lawson) Mayhew

I parry the point of your steel; --The point you hoped to make me feel; I open the line, now clutch Your spit, Sir Scullion--slow your zeal!
— from Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand

Or, winged snakes of Lerna, cast your stings, And leave your venoms in this tyrant's dish? ZABINA.
— from Tamburlaine the Great — Part 1 by Christopher Marlowe

Cut your seizings and draw the poles, ye harpooneers!” Silently obeying the order, the three harpooneers now stood with the detached iron part of their harpoons, some three feet long, held, barbs up, before him.
— from Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville

16, says, The Apostle ‘enjoins the Laodicean Epistle to be read to the Colossians, because though it is very short and is not reckoned in the Canon, yet still it has some use
— from St. Paul's Epistles to the Colossians and Philemon A revised text with introductions, notes and dissertations by J. B. (Joseph Barber) Lightfoot

Can you stand it, Margaret?
— from North and South by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

Can you show how the joins might have been made?
— from Amusements in Mathematics by Henry Ernest Dudeney

The imperial consort Yuan stood up and asking Pao-yü to lead the way, she followed in his steps, along with the whole party, and betook herself on foot as far as the entrance of the garden gate, whence she at once espied, in the lustre shed by the lanterns, every kind of decorations.
— from Hung Lou Meng, or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel, Book I by Xueqin Cao

“What can you see?” said Fionn.
— from Irish Fairy Tales by James Stephens

"How can you say such a thing!
— from Fairy Gold by Christian Reid

"How can you say such things?
— from The Son of His Mother by Clara Viebig

"Can you spare me five minutes?"
— from A Lost Leader by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim

or what can you see in all that trumpery small-craft, which is only loaded with stock-fish, and ling, and smoked geese, and tubs of butter that is worse than tallow?—the cargoes of the whole lumped together would not be worth the flash of a pistol.—No, no, give me such a chase as we might see from the mast-head off the island of Trinidado.
— from The Pirate Andrew Lang Edition by Walter Scott

The argument of my friends to alleviate my anxiety, by persuading me that this shocking attempt will put you more upon your guard [328] and render your person more secure than if it had never taken place, is kind in them, and has some weight; but my greatest comfort and consolation arise from the belief of a superintending Providence, to whom I can with confidence commit you, since not a sparrow falls to the ground without his notice.
— from Familiar Letters of John Adams and His Wife Abigail Adams During the Revolution with a Memoir of Mrs. Adams by Abigail Adams

"Can you shorthand and type?" "No, I can't," said Maggie; "
— from The Captives by Hugh Walpole

“Oh, can you?” said Gorman.
— from Fighting the Flames by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne