I pray you take it seriously into consideration; let each give way a litle that we may meete, &c. Be you and all yours kindly saluted, &c.
— from Bradford's History of 'Plimoth Plantation' From the Original Manuscript. With a Report of the Proceedings Incident to the Return of the Manuscript to Massachusetts by William Bradford
"I saw 'is cruel little eye A-swivellin' stem to starn; 'Now, Wells,' I ses, 'you must do or die,'
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, May 9, 1917 by Various
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