ear, S, C2, PP; eere , W2; ære , S; earen , pl. , S, S2; eren , S; eeris , W2, PP.
— from A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 to 1580 by A. L. (Anthony Lawson) Mayhew

Or Messires Marc Pol moult ama cel roiaume de Bretaingne la grant pour son viex renon et s'ancienne franchise, et pour sa saige et bonne Royne (que Diex gart), et pour les mainz homes de vaillance et bons chaceours et les maintes bonnes et honnestes dames qui y estoient.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

This power is inherent in all persons who are more or less prominent, such as kings, priests and the newly born, in all exceptional physical states such as menstruation, puberty and birth, in everything sinister like illness and death and in everything connected with these conditions by virtue of contagion or dissemination.
— from Totem and Taboo Resemblances Between the Psychic Lives of Savages and Neurotics by Sigmund Freud

Whilst they stayed for that, they did clearly and eloquently pronounce some sentences that they had retained of the lecture.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

Just because nature is elsewhere parsimonious, she seems frequently extravagant; yet that extravagance is the cheapest means of attaining the necessary end.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

about 120 B.C. ); with suffix -scō ( 834 ), escit (for *esscit ), gets to be , will be , escunt ; present subjunctive, siem , siēs , siet , and sient ( 841 ), common in inscriptions down to 100 B.C. , and in old verse; also in compounds; imperative estōd rare.
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

“If one is to pay attention to every prejudice,” said Samoylenko, “one could go nowhere.”
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

THE FORGOTTEN DREAM Ere one ruddy streak of light Glimmer'd o'er the distant height, Kindling with its living beam Frowning wood and cold grey stream, I awoke with sudden start, Clammy brow and beating heart, Trembling limbs, convulsed and chill, Conscious of some mighty ill; Yet unable to recall Sights that did my sense appal; Sounds that thrill'd my sleeping ear With unutterable fear; Forms that to my sleeping eye Presented some strange phantasy— Shadowy, spectral, and sublime, That glance upon the sons of time At moments when the mind, o'erwrought, Yields reason to mysterious thought, And night and solitude in vain Bind the free spirit in their chain.
— from Roughing It in the Bush by Susanna Moodie

Thus Erasistratus practically says so in the following words: “It is of no value in practical medicine to find out whether a fluid of this kind 253 arises from the elaboration of food in the stomach-region, or whether it reaches the body because it is mixed with the food taken in from outside.”
— from Galen: On the Natural Faculties by Galen

His arms are as brown as my own and he has gained eleven pounds,” she said, rolling up her sleeves and showing her heavy, muscular forearms.
— from Windy McPherson's Son by Sherwood Anderson

I might have dwelt upon the fact that the English Public School system is not so hard upon the stupid boy—which means the average boy—as that of more strenuous forcing-houses of intellect abroad.
— from The Right Stuff: Some Episodes in the Career of a North Briton by Ian Hay

Nor does the poet disdain the grinding factories where "Entre des murs de fer et pierre Soudainement se lève altière
— from Modernities by Horace Barnett Samuel

When the Jewish embassy arrived at Lachish, the Egyptian party seems still to have been in the ascendant.
— from Fresh Light from the Ancient Monuments A Sketch of the Most Striking Confirmations of the Bible, From Recent Discoveries in Egypt, Palestine, Assyria, Babylonia, Asia Minor by A. H. (Archibald Henry) Sayce

“Come for me in a couple of hours, and I shall have everything packed,” she said, as she smiled, and extended her hand.
— from Selected Stories of Bret Harte by Bret Harte

De Trinit. , XV, 18, 32: “ Dilectio igitur, quae ex Deo est et Deus est, proprie Spiritus S. est, per quem diffunditur in cordibus nostris Dei caritas, per quam nos tota inhabitat Trinitas. ”
— from Grace, Actual and Habitual: A Dogmatic Treatise by Joseph Pohle

"Les quatre premiers et quatre en plein," she said.
— from The Devourers by Annie Vivanti

The essential inspiration of the poem implies a particular sense of human existence which has not yet definitely appeared in the epic series, but which the process of life in Europe made it absolutely necessary that epic poetry should symbolize.
— from The Epic An Essay by Lascelles Abercrombie