[Destruction of animals] slaughtering; phthisozoics[obs3]; sport, sporting; the chase, venery; hunting, coursing, shooting, fishing; pig- sticking; sportsman, huntsman, fisherman; hunter, Nimrod; slaughterhouse, meat packing plant, shambles, abattoir.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

Fliten , v. to strive, contend, quarrel, PP, HD, H; flytin , Prompt.; flitis , pr. s. , scolds, H; flytande , pr.
— from A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 to 1580 by A. L. (Anthony Lawson) Mayhew

Nay, but the man that was his bedfellow, Whom he hath dull'd and cloy'd with gracious favours- That he should, for a foreign purse, so sell His sovereign's life to death and treachery!
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

Bird houses have been readily accepted by many natural cavity nesters, and increases in breeding density have resulted from providing such structures (Hamerstrom et al.
— from Cavity-Nesting Birds of North American Forests Agriculture Handbook 511 by Charles P. Stone

XLVII When her Rogero the fair dame discerned, In fearful peril, soar so high a strain, She stood long space amazed, ere she returned To her right judgement, and sound wits again: And what she erst of Ganymede had learned, Snatched up to heaven from his paternal reign, Feared might befall the stripling, born through air, As gentle as young Ganymede and fair.
— from Orlando Furioso by Lodovico Ariosto