Pen , sb. a pen, enclosure, crib, Sh., SkD; penne , caula , Manip.; penez , pl. , S2.
— from A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 to 1580 by A. L. (Anthony Lawson) Mayhew

Truffles! (With a piercing epileptic cry she sinks on all fours, grunting, snuffling, rooting at his feet: then lies, shamming dead, with eyes shut tight, trembling eyelids, bowed upon the ground in the attitude of most excellent master.)
— from Ulysses by James Joyce

And as I cannot choose but condole their mishap that labour of this infirmity, and are destitute of help in this case, so must I needs inveigh against them that are in fault, more than manifest causes, and as bitterly tax those tyrannising pseudopoliticians, superstitious orders, rash vows, hard-hearted parents, guardians, unnatural friends, allies, (call them how you will,) those careless and stupid overseers, that out of worldly respects, covetousness, supine negligence, their own private ends ( cum sibi sit interim bene ) can so severely reject, stubbornly neglect, and impiously contemn, without all remorse and pity, the tears, sighs, groans, and grievous miseries of such poor souls committed to their charge.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

[56-1] ...—dije yo. —Dios guarde a V., señorito ...—dijo él. —¡Muy solo va V. por estos caminos!... —Sí, señor.
— from Novelas Cortas by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón

Ut pene extinctum cinerem si sulphure tangas, Vivet, et ex minimo maximus ignis erit: Sic nisi vitabis quicquid renovabit amorem, Flamma recrudescet, quae modo nulla fuit.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

For though we read of the estate being taken away from the Church, yet we also read incidentally that Provost John paid each Canon sixty shillings yearly.
— from History of the Cathedral Church of Wells As Illustrating the History of the Cathedral Churches of the Old Foundation by Edward A. (Edward Augustus) Freeman

If the police employed Chinese secret service, they could clean out every vice resort in a week.
— from The Canadian Commonwealth by Agnes C. Laut

In pruning, every considerable section should be as near as possible at right angles with the horizon, or rather inclining inward below.
— from On Naval Timber and Arboriculture With Critical Notes on Authors who have Recently Treated the Subject of Planting by Patrick Matthew

4. It is not clear, however, that St. Thomas regarded these two “ operationes ” of the instrumental cause as really distinct, for he says that it acts as an instrument ( i.e. modifies the efficiency of the principal cause) only by exercising its own proper function: “Omne agens instrumentale exsequitur actionem principalis agentis per aliquam operationem propriam, et connaturalem sibi, sicut calor naturalis generat carnem dissolvendo et digerendo, et serra operatur ad factionem scamni secando” ( Contra Gentes , ii., ch.
— from Ontology, or the Theory of Being by P. (Peter) Coffey

Nowe therefore knowing and beleuing with Saint Paul, Quod quecumque prescripta sunt, ad nostram doctrinam prescripta sunt vt per pacientiam et consolationem scripturarum spem habeamus: Whatsoeuer is afore written, is written before for our instruction, that we [Pg 192] through the patience and comfort of scriptures might haue hope, the only suretie to our fayth and conscience, is to sticke to the scriptures.
— from Lectures on Bible Revision by Samuel Newth

Dr. Chalmers happened to have with him, in a sort of pocket emergency case, some soothing tablets.
— from The Motor Rangers' Wireless Station by John Henry Goldfrap

306 The Spanish text for the foregoing paragraph is as follows: “Salidos deste despoblado grande, están siete lugares y habrá una jornada pequeña del uno al otro, á los quales todos juntos llaman Civola; tienen las casas de piedra y barro, toscamente labradas, son desta manera hechas: una pared larga y desta pared á un cabo y á otro salen unas cámaras atajadas de veinte piés en cuadra, segund señalan, las cuales están maderadas de vigas por labrar; las más casas se mandan por las azoteas con sus escaleras á las calles; son las casas de tres y de cuatro altos; afirman haber pocas de dos altos, los altos son demás de estado y medio en alto, ecebto el primero ques bajo, que no terná sino algo más que un estado; mandánse diez ó doce casas juntas por una escalera, de los bajos se sirven y en los más altos habitan: en el más bajo de todos tienen unas saeteras hechas al soslayo como en fortalezas en España.
— from The Coronado Expedition, 1540-1542. Excerpted from the Fourteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1892-1893, Part 1. by George Parker Winship

They are, at the same time, subject to every kind of domestic drudgery; they dress the leather, make the clothes and shoes, weave the nets, collect wood, erect the tents, fetch water, and perform every culinary service; so that when the duties of maternal care are added, it will appear, that the life of these women is an uninterrupted succession { cxlviii} of toil and pain.
— from Voyages from Montreal Through the Continent of North America to the Frozen and Pacific Oceans in 1789 and 1793. Vol. I by Alexander Mackenzie

by P. E. Club, State Suff.
— from The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 2 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Ida Husted Harper