she, S, S2, P; hi , S; hye , S; hie , MD; he , S, S2, P; hue , S2; ha , S; ho , S2, S3; ȝeo , S; ȝho , S; ȝhe , S2; ȝe , S (s.v. ge ); heo , acc.
— from A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 to 1580 by A. L. (Anthony Lawson) Mayhew
The old count had money enough that year, as all his estates had been remortgaged, and so Nicholas, acquiring a trotter of his own, very stylish riding breeches of the latest cut, such as no one else yet had in Moscow, and boots of the latest fashion, with extremely pointed toes and small silver spurs, passed his time very gaily.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf
But I will not suffer, that she shall prescribe her insolent will to my wife, and in your own house too.—I will, by my tenderness to you, mortify her pride; and it cannot be done so well as to her face.
— from Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson
For, God no such specifique poyson hath As kills we know not how; his fiercest wrath Hath no antipathy, but may be good 30
— from The Poems of John Donne, Volume 1 (of 2) Edited from the Old Editions and Numerous Manuscripts by John Donne
Nawad-an siya sa panimbang, He lost his balance.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff
I did so: she put her arm over me, and I nestled close to her.
— from Jane Eyre: An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë
Trembling with doubt and wild with dread Lord Indra from the cottage fled; But fleeing in the grove he met The home-returning anchoret, Whose wrath the Gods and fiends would shun, Such power his fervent rites had won.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki
Snybbynge , sb. rebuke, Prompt.; snybynge , H; snibbing , S2; snybyngis , pl. , H. Snytyn , v. to clear the nose, Prompt.; snytte , pt. s. , S2; y-snyt , pp.
— from A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 to 1580 by A. L. (Anthony Lawson) Mayhew
And when Sir Palomedes saw Sir Persides, he sent a squire to him and proffered him to joust.
— from The Legends of King Arthur and His Knights by Knowles, James, Sir
Every exertion now was used by the associated conspirators against the power of Robespierre, to collect and combine against him the whole forces of the convention, to alarm the deputies of the plain with fears for themselves, and to awaken the rage of the mountaineers, against whose throat the dictator now waved the sword, which their short sighted policy had placed in his hands.
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe
And then, Señor, she plunged her beautiful face down into the very heart of the glowing coals!
— from Legends of the City of Mexico by Thomas A. (Thomas Allibone) Janvier
He was in his shirt sleeves, paring his nails.
— from The Squire's Daughter: Being the First Book in the Chronicles of the Clintons by Archibald Marshall
Halen , v. to hale, drag, S, S2, S3, Prompt.; halie , PP.—OS.
— from A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 to 1580 by A. L. (Anthony Lawson) Mayhew
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