Then Tun it up in a strong and sweet cask, and let it stand in some place, where there is some little warmth; (It will do as well without warmth, but be longer growing ripe)
— from The Closet of Sir Kenelm Digby Knight Opened by Kenelm Digby

Pedro III already had a great army near by in Tunis, and when he was invited by the Sicilians to help them he accepted, alleging the claims of his wife to the Sicilian crown, and landing in Sicily in the same year, 1282.
— from A History of Spain founded on the Historia de España y de la civilización española of Rafael Altamira by Rafael Altamira

Shake the vessel, to mix it; stop close, and let it stand in the cask two months, before you bottle it.
— from The English Housekeeper: Or, Manual of Domestic Management Containing advice on the conduct of household affairs and practical instructions concerning the store-room, the pantry, the larder, the kitchen, the cellar, the dairy; the whole being intended for the use of young ladies who undertake the superintendence of their own housekeeping by Anne Cobbett

I should have abhorred him for his report of your marriage, had he not made it with such circumstances as leave it still in your power to keep him at distance.
— from Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 4 by Samuel Richardson