Expownyng , sb. interpretation, W. Ey , sb. egg, C, C3, Prompt.; eye , S3, W; ay , G, HD; eyren , pl. , PP; eiren , PP; eirun , W2; ayren , MD; egges , PP.
— from A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 to 1580 by A. L. (Anthony Lawson) Mayhew

The superiority of his talents raised him too far above his Companions to permit his being jealous of them: His exemplary piety, persuasive eloquence, and pleasing manners had secured him universal Esteem, and consequently He had no injuries to revenge: His Ambition was justified by his acknowledged merit, and his pride considered as no more than proper confidence.
— from The Monk: A Romance by M. G. (Matthew Gregory) Lewis

With pious care He turned him to his evening prayer, Performed each customary rite, And sought his lodging for the night, With Sítá and his brother laid [pg 237] Beneath the grove's delightful shade, First good Sutíkshṇa, as elsewhere, when he saw The shades of night around them draw, With hospitable care
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

05 Llámase barco de la hora el primero, porque en este espacio de tiempo, y hasta en cuarenta minutos algunos días, si el viento es de popa, cruza las tres leguas que median entre la
— from Novelas Cortas by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón

“Among the natives,” he explained, painstakingly picking each word, “what you call ‘atrocities’ are customs of warfare, forms of punishment.
— from A Question of Latitude by Richard Harding Davis

That this Commission do not take on them, to meddle with any thing, not expressed in their Commission: [pg 534] And that it be declared, that this Commission is only given, Ad hunc effectum & pro præsenti Ecclesiæ statu .” “9.
— from The Acts Of The General Assemblies of the Church of Scotland by Church of Scotland. General Assembly

We have our popular heroes; but so has every petty people, every tribe its heroes.
— from Education and the Higher Life by John Lancaster Spalding

By JOHN WILLIAMS, L. L. D. Hic, ubi nunc Roma est orbis caput, arbor et herbæ, Et paucæ pecudes, et casa rara fuit.
— from An Enquiry into the Truth of the Tradition, Concerning the Discovery of America, by Prince Madog ab Owen Gwynedd, about the Year, 1170 by John Williams

Round illustrates the point by a note:— 334 “Good instances in point are found in the Ramsey Cartulary where, in 1081, a benefactor to the abbey ‘suscepit e contra a domino abbate et ab omnibus fratribus plenam fraternitatem pro rēge Willelmo, et pro regina Matilda, et pro comite Roberto, et pro semetipso, et uxore sua, et filio qui ejus erit heres, et pro patre et matre ejus, ut sunt participes orationum, elemosinarum, et omnium beneficiorum ipsorum, sed et omnium fratrum sive monasteriorum a quibus societatem susceperunt in omnibus sicut ex ipsis.’
— from Early London: Prehistoric, Roman, Saxon and Norman by Walter Besant

But the mask fell from the face of Germany which she shows the outside world, when the Kaiser issued his Easter proclamation promising election reforms after the war.
— from Germany, The Next Republic? by Carl W. (Carl William) Ackerman

A somewhat overactive mind like Roosevelt’s has opinions on many problems, and his exceptional political position easily betrays one at first into laying exceptional weight on one’s own opinions about every subject.
— from The Americans by Hugo Münsterberg

Lesdictz Sieurs Princes, pour reprimer et faire cesser de leur pouvoir telles inhumanitez non ouyes entre les plus barbares nations de la terre, et, par le chastiment des perturbateurs de la paix et foy publicque, parvenir à quelque tranquillité stable entre ceulx qui désirent la seureté et conservation de cest Estat et coronne de France, ont habandonné en proye, pillage et feu toutes maisons, ediffices, bestail, meubles, danrées et biens quelzquonques qui se trouveront appartenir
— from The Wars of Religion in France 1559-1576 The Huguenots, Catherine de Medici and Philip II by James Westfall Thompson

Principatus prædictorum ac curiarum eorumdem juramento confirmatione apostolica vel quavis alia firmitate roboratis, statutis et consuetudinibus ac stilo et observantiis quibus illa etiamsi de eis eorumque toto tenore seu quovis alio expressio habenda esset, præsentibus pro expressis habentes, illis alias in suo robore permansuris, quoad præmissa specialiter expresse derogamus contrariis quibuscunque.
— from A History of the Inquisition of Spain; vol. 1 by Henry Charles Lea