‘Let me take that pipe,’ she said, cautiously advancing her hand and abstracting it from his mouth.
— from Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

At p. 26 is the following entry:— ‘ Bi-heste , sb. promise, S, S2, C2, P; byheste , S2; beheste , S2; byhest , S2; bihese , S; biheest , W; bihese , pl. , S.—AS. be-hǽs .’
— from A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 to 1580 by A. L. (Anthony Lawson) Mayhew

Jusqu'à ce qu'une masse critique de public se soit constituée, que ses goûts culturels se soient affirmés au point qu'il soit prêt à payer (sous la forme de péages ou de DVD).
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

Sad , adj. sated, over full, weary, satisfied, serious, firm, sober, discreet, grave, PP, S2, S3, C, C2, C3, W; sead , S; sæd , S; sadde , adv. , S3; sadder , comp.
— from A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 to 1580 by A. L. (Anthony Lawson) Mayhew

The weight and burthen of initiating the Indians into the Christian Faith lay solely on the Spaniards at first; and therefore Joannes Colmenero in Santa Martha , a Fantastic, Ignorant, and Foppish Fellow, was under Examination before us (and he had one of the most spatious Cities committed to his Charge as well as the Care and Cure of the Souls of the Inhabitants) whether he understood how to fortifie himself with the sign of the Cross against the Wicked and Impious, and being interrogated what he taught, and how he instructed the Indians , whose Souls were intrusted to his Care and Conduct; he return'd this Answer, That if he damn'd them to the Devil and Furies of Hell, it was sufficient to retrieve them, if he pronounced these Words, Per Signin Sanctin Cruces.
— from A Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies Or, a faithful NARRATIVE OF THE Horrid and Unexampled Massacres, Butcheries, and all manner of Cruelties, that Hell and Malice could invent, committed by the Popish Spanish Party on the inhabitants of West-India, TOGETHER With the Devastations of several Kingdoms in America by Fire and Sword, for the space of Forty and Two Years, from the time of its first Discovery by them. by Bartolomé de las Casas

p. , S; comynde , S2; cominde , S2; comste , comest thou, S2; comþ , pr. s. , S2; com , pt. s. , S, S2, G; cam , S, G, P; kam , S; come , 2 pt. s. , S, G; coman , pt.
— from A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 to 1580 by A. L. (Anthony Lawson) Mayhew

And, that you may better comprehend what it is, I must tell you it is the fruit of the study and experiments of a celebrated philosopher of this city, who applied himself all his lifetime to the study and knowledge of the virtues of plants and minerals, and at last attained to this composition, by which he performed such surprising cures in this town as will never be forgot, but died suddenly himself, before he could apply his sovereign remedy, and left his wife and a great many young children behind him, in very indifferent circumstances, who, to support her family and provide for her children, is resolved to sell it.”
— from The Blue Fairy Book by Andrew Lang

pr. s. , S3; clahte , pt. s. , MD; claucht , pp.
— from A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 to 1580 by A. L. (Anthony Lawson) Mayhew

“How is a girl to prevent herself from falling in love with one particular man?” “Possibly a course of higher mathematics might be prescribed,” said Sir Creighton.
— from According to Plato by Frank Frankfort Moore

Nothing could be more natural than that, after protracted agony, the patient sufferer should cry: "I thirst," but the dogmatic purpose, which dictates the whole narrative in the fourth Gospel, is rendered obvious by the reference of such a cry to a supposed Messianic prophecy.
— from Supernatural Religion, Vol. 3 (of 3) An Inquiry into the Reality of Divine Revelation by Walter Richard Cassels

Sweten , v. to sweat, S, P; swatte , pt. s. , S, C2, C3, W2; swattes , 2 pt
— from A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 to 1580 by A. L. (Anthony Lawson) Mayhew

"He had the grace to show me that I was a constitutional ass, with perhaps some slight chance of being reborn.
— from Dave Darrin's Third Year at Annapolis; Or, Leaders of the Second Class Midshipmen by H. Irving (Harrie Irving) Hancock

The inhabitants seemed happy, and to possess some substantial comforts.
— from Travels through the South of France and the Interior of Provinces of Provence and Languedoc in the Years 1807 and 1808 by lieutenant-colonel (Ninian) Pinkney