The meanings of the words are given in modern English, directly after the Main Word.
— from A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 to 1580 by A. L. (Anthony Lawson) Mayhew

In my letters I only ask you for a straightforward answer: Yes, or No; and instead of giving it me, every day you contrive that we shall meet 'by chance' and you treat me to quotations from a moral copy-book.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

“Mind you, Mr. Pip,” said Wemmick, gravely in my ear, as he took my arm to be more confidential; “I don't know that Mr. Jaggers does a better thing than the way in which he keeps himself so high.
— from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

148 C 41 SECOND MACEDONIAN WAR, 200-196 B.C. (2) Flamininus proclaims the Freedom of Greece, 196 B.C. Isthmiorum statum ludicrum aderat, semper quidem et alias frequens cum propter spectaculi studium insitum genti, quo certamina omnis generis artium viriumque et pernicitatis visuntur, tum quia propter opportunitatem loci, per duo diversa maria 5 omnium rerum usus ministrantis humano generi, concilium Asiae Graeciaeque is mercatus erat; tum vero non ad solitos modo usus undique convenerant, sed exspectatione erecti, qui deinde status futurus Graeciae, quae sua fortuna esset.
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce

Get into my egg-basket and I will carry you home, and then you will see for yourself."
— from Household Tales by Brothers Grimm by Wilhelm Grimm

I would have given worlds to have acted as in days of boyhood, have strained him to my breast, pressed his hand to my lips, and wept over him; my swelling heart choked me; the natural current would not be checked; the big rebellious tears gathered in my eyes; I turned aside, and they dropped in the sea—they came fast and faster;—yet I could hardly be ashamed, for I saw that the rough sailors were not unmoved, and Raymond's eyes alone were dry from among our crew.
— from The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

I have no skill to make money spend well, no genius in my economy, and whoever sees my garden discovers that I must have some other garden.
— from Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson by Ralph Waldo Emerson

You give it mouth enough, you do; but give it mouth in your own building at least,’ remonstrated E. W. B. with stern irony. ‘Don’t give it mouth in this building, till you’re called upon.
— from Hard Times by Charles Dickens

But he is very composed and quiet in his manner, and we grow in mutual esteem daily.
— from The Rival Heirs; being the Third and Last Chronicle of Aescendune by A. D. (Augustine David) Crake

The early spring is the best time for sowing the seed, but in mild climates it may be sown at almost any season that may be convenient, providing the ground is moist enough to germinate the seed.
— from Clovers and How to Grow Them by Thomas Shaw

An Army Lady Superintendent is supposed to take charge of a ward herself—generally the officers' ward; but I have not taken a ward yet, as, until we fill up, there are enough sisters, and it seems more profitable for me to go round supplying the sisters' needs from the stores, looking after the cooking, and the house-boys, and the washerwomen (I fear that my hair will turn grey in my efforts to keep the typhoid linen separate), to say nothing of the cows, which are not a success; and we have had to resort to frozen milk from Australia—generally good, but sometimes there is a difficulty about unfreezing it.
— from A Nurse's Life in War and Peace by E. C. (Eleanor Constance) Laurence

Grant I may ever love, and rather woo Those that would mischief me than those that do!
— from The Life of Timon of Athens by William Shakespeare

with what haste shall I select those precious parts, and with what joy should I, on my return, pour them as an offering of filial affection into my mother's lap!—and then, as I thought of my mother, the tears again gushed into my eyes.
— from Peter Simple; and, The Three Cutters, Vol. 1-2 by Frederick Marryat

At a later date he says jokingly: “ Epistola ad Galatas is my Epistle to which I have plighted my troth; my own Katey von Bora.”
— from Luther, vol. 1 of 6 by Hartmann Grisar

"She turned and gazed into my eyes frankly, wondering at my question, and my hand burned as with a fever as I took hers in mine, and almost whispered: "'But with me, little one, as my own?
— from Final Proof; Or, The Value of Evidence by Rodrigues Ottolengui

Can it be that ’mid my gladness I must ever hear you wail, Of the grief that wrung my spirit, And that made my cheek so pale?
— from Legends and Lyrics. Part 1 by Adelaide Anne Procter

The Governor, a most fascinating and splendid man, with a warmth of cordiality that glows in me every time I recall his memory, entertained me with the story of his life which had been a romance of mercy in the healing art, he having been elected to his high office in appreciation of his heroic services as physician in time of yellow fever.
— from T. De Witt Talmage as I Knew Him by Eleanor McCutcheon Talmage