And so shall they that come after him, without doing of any deeds of arms, but live evermore thus in ease, as a. swine that is fed in sty for to be made fat.
— from The Travels of Sir John Mandeville by Mandeville, John, Sir

Zachur crossed his arms on his breast, bowed low, and answered: "Thy favor is like dew on a barren land, even for the richest, and if I had not promised a sick friend to be with him this evening, I would willingly enter within the shadow of thy halls.
— from Harper's Young People, February 24, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly by Various

For a long period, these self-denying men toiled amid hardships which might have discouraged others actuated by less exalted motives.
— from History of the Indians, of North and South America by Samuel G. (Samuel Griswold) Goodrich

todauia lleuaron alguna gente y otros que se auian quedado uoluntariamẽte de los quales el dia de oy abra buenas lenguas el despoblado se camino sin contraste y como salieron en chichilticale en la segunda jornada llego a el campo juan gallego que yba de la nueba españa con socorro
— from The Coronado Expedition, 1540-1542. Excerpted from the Fourteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1892-1893, Part 1. by George Parker Winship

Since the destruction of Algiers, by Lord Exmouth, and still later since the abolition of that piratical kingdom by the French, such charitable bequests, having become useless for their original purpose, have in some instances been devoted to the promotion of education by a decree of Chancery.
— from The History of Don Quixote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

In order to avoid the publicity and delay of a body large even as this, a second selection was made, which was known as the Council of Ten, and to which much of the executive power that aristocratical jealousy withheld from the titular chief of the state, was confided.
— from The Bravo: A Tale by James Fenimore Cooper

And so dide thei before him, that weren his auncestres; and so schulle thei that comen aftre him, with outen doynge of ony dedes of armes: but lyven evere more thus in ese, as a swyn, that is fedde in sty, for to ben made fatte.
— from The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 09 Asia, Part II by Richard Hakluyt

Among Ruminants they are chiefly remarkable for the development of a broad lamellar expansion between the head and the processus longus of the malleus.
— from The Vertebrate Skeleton by Sidney H. (Sidney Hugh) Reynolds