To make feet for children's stockings; to beget children.
— from 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

But Peter de Rupibus, [274] Bishop of Winchester, in the year 1215, founded the same again more fully for canons regular in place of the first hospital; he increased the rent thereof to three hundred and forty-four pounds in the year.
— from The Survey of London by John Stow

And you her creatures, whom she workes upon, And have your last, and best concoction From her example, and her vertue, if you In reverence to her, do thinke it due, That no one should her praises thus rehearse, 460 As matter fit for Chronicle, not verse; Vouchsafe to call to minde that God did make A last, and lasting'st peece, a song.
— from The Poems of John Donne, Volume 1 (of 2) Edited from the Old Editions and Numerous Manuscripts by John Donne

(5) Metamorphoses , in hexameter verse in fifteen Books, containing versions of legends on transformations ( mutatae formae ) from Chaos down to Caesar’s transformation into a star.
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce

At length this ancient stag of ten, Discovering all its efforts vain, And almost wholly worn and spent, Drives by main force, from covert near, Athwart the dogs, some younger deer, To tempt them off, by fresher scent.
— from The Fables of La Fontaine Translated into English Verse by Walter Thornbury and Illustrated by Gustave Doré by Jean de La Fontaine

trūw = trēow ± trūwa (ēo, ȳ) m. fidelity, faith, confidence, trust, belief : pledge, promise, agreement, covenant : protection .
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

This caused the nation some distress, but it was only temporary, and was not much felt, for commerce, both domestic and foreign, much extended at the same time, and the sale of collectorships, of titles of nobility, of places in parliament, and of nominations to numerous judicial offices, brought in considerable sums to the treasury.
— from Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period by P. L. Jacob

In addition to this, the quiet of the night and the thoughts on which my fancy fed continuously, by taking me out of myself, sometimes moved me to actions more frantic than passionate and to the employment of unusual words.
— from La Fiammetta by Giovanni Boccaccio

If I am right, our difference will be got over only by your re-reading carefully and reflecting on my first four chapters.
— from Life and Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1 by Charles Darwin

Pedestrianism was a sour business to Willoughby, whose exclamation of the word indicated a willingness for any amount of exercise on horseback; but she had no horse, and so, while he hunted, Laetitia and Vernon walked, and the neighbourhood speculated on the circumstances, until the ladies Eleanor and Isabel Patterne engaged her more frequently for carriage exercise, and Sir Willoughby was observed riding beside them.
— from The Egoist: A Comedy in Narrative by George Meredith

mille , fix fois cent.
— from French Conversation and Composition by Harry Vincent Wann

“'Had your tutor'—here comes in my poor coach for his turn,” said Agincourt—“'had your tutor but bestowed proper attention to the instructions written by my own hand for his guidance.—We never could read them; we have been at them for hours together, and all we could make out was, 'Let him study hazard, roulette, and all other such games;' which rather surprised us, till we found out it was 'shun,' and not 'study,' and 'only frequent the fast society of each city he visits,' which was a mistake for 'first.'” “Certainly the noble Lord has a most ambiguous calligraphy,” said she, smiling; “and Mr. Layton is not so culpable as might be imagined.”
— from One Of Them by Charles James Lever

Sugar, which is well known to possess the preserving principle in a very great degree, without the pungency and astringency of salt, may be, and is, very generally used in the preserving of meat for family consumption.
— from The Book of Household Management by Mrs. (Isabella Mary) Beeton

Altogether, I now lived better and was much more free from care than I had been; while above all was the great fact of companionship—the mere not being alone.
— from The Life Story of a Black Bear by Harry Perry Robinson

When he had effected this proper restitution, "Now," he said to himself, "let us inhale much maternal air, much freedom from cares, much health, let us allow the horse Zephyr, whose flanks puff as if he had to respire an atmosphere, to breathe, and let us be very ingenious in our little calculations.
— from The Vicomte De Bragelonne by Alexandre Dumas

Another thing that hath troubled me, even since my late amendments, is, that if I look narrowly into the best of what I do now, I still see sin, new sin, mixing itself with the best of that I do; so that now I am forced to conclude, that notwithstanding my former fond conceits of myself and duties, I have committed sin enough in one duty to send me to hell, though my former life had been faultless.
— from The Pilgrim's Progress from this world to that which is to come Delivered under the similitude of a dream, by John Bunyan by John Bunyan