152 21 Bien está Pedro en su casa : the Academy lists bien está San Pedro en Roma , 'let well enough alone,' 'go farther and fare worse,' 'I'm better as I am'; and como Pedro por su casa , 'without saying "by your leave.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

Come rimane splendido e sereno l'emisperio de l'aere, quando soffia Borea da quella guancia ond'e` piu` leno, per che si purga e risolve la roffia che pria turbava, si` che 'l ciel ne ride con le bellezze d'ogne sua paroffia; cosi` fec'io, poi che mi provide la donna mia del suo risponder chiaro, e come stella in cielo il ver si vide.
— from La Divina Commedia di Dante: Complete by Dante Alighieri

Within the finished bow-windows are wealth and splendour, and brilliancy, which we poor southerns have not seen in our own native land; marble [Pg 152] buildings, stores with granite columns, and the streets crowded with immense omnibuses (these are stages to transport persons from one part of the city to another); splendid private equipages, republican liveries, and carts loaded with merchandise.
— from The Kentuckian in New-York; or, The Adventures of Three Southerns. Volume 1 (of 2) by William Alexander Caruthers

Another custom in some places, especially round Llandyssul and Llangeler, which took place before appointing the Gwahoddwr, was for the neighbours and friends to come together of an evening to the house of the bride or bridegroom’s parents, or any other place fixed upon for that purpose.
— from Folk-Lore of West and Mid-Wales by Jonathan Ceredig Davies

Rabelais uses the term with the signification of to seize :— Parmy eulx règne la sexte essence, moyennant laquelle ils grippent tout, dévorent tout et conchient tout.
— from Argot and Slang A New French and English Dictionary of the Cant Words, Quaint Expressions, Slang Terms and Flash Phrases Used in the High and Low Life of Old and New Paris by Albert Barrère

The moment is sweet, peaceful, even romantic; let us dally a moment, nor chafe our cold northern blood for more energetic scenes.
— from Mexico Its Ancient and Modern Civilisation, History, Political Conditions, Topography, Natural Resources, Industries and General Development by C. Reginald (Charles Reginald) Enock

vicem verò suam doluisse, ac deflevise, quòd serius adventasset: illum cantu delectatum auri sacculum poposcisse, et accurrenti page 61 p. 61 cantori projecisse: quo sublato, poëtam ejus rursum laudes iterantem praedicasse currûs, quo vehebatur, impressa in terram vestigia aurum et beneficia procreare mortalibus.
— from Some Specimens of the Poetry of the Ancient Welsh Bards by Evan Evans