Even now, there was only that puling, sickly Pitt Crawley between Rawdon and a baronetcy; and should anything happen to the former, all would be well.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

With the present stem in -o | e- ( 829 ). petō , aim at petere petīvī petītus In the perfect, sometimes petiī (Cic., Ov., Liv., Val.
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

Passen , v. to pass, surpass, PP, C2, C3; pace , S2, C2, C3; to die, C2; y-passed , pp.
— from A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 to 1580 by A. L. (Anthony Lawson) Mayhew

After this operation, which makes me laugh to this day when I remember it, I took the scraps I had bought and said to the tailor,— “Now, gossip, it is your turn; I want you to sew in these pieces into the holes I have made, and I hope your tailoring genius will aid you to produce some pretty contrasts.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

Pike , v. to pitch, S; pykke , Cath.
— from A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 to 1580 by A. L. (Anthony Lawson) Mayhew

Such are, the Proconsul Sergius Paulus, converted at Paphos, (Acts xiii. 7—12.)
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

Þank , sb. a thought, a thank, gratitude, grace; þanc , S; þonc , S; þonk , S, PP; þance , dat. , S; þonke , S, S2; þankes , pl. , PP; thonkes , PP, S2. Phr. : can þanc , con þonk , is thankful, S; here þankes , gen. as adv. , of their own thought, spontaneously, S, C.—AS. þanc ; cp.
— from A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 to 1580 by A. L. (Anthony Lawson) Mayhew

ch'a riguardar oltre mi diedi, vidi genti a la riva d'un gran fiume; per ch'io dissi: <trapassar parer si` pronte, com'io discerno per lo fioco
— from Divina Commedia di Dante: Inferno by Dante Alighieri

With an equal devotional respect for “the people of God,” and for the monks, whom he considered as sacred, he concluded that “possibly some pious Christian by the use of Rhyme designed to imitate the holy people;” but at the same time holding, with the learned, Rhyme to be a degenerate deviation from the classical metres of antiquity, he insinuates, “or perchance some vile poetaster, to eke out his deficient genius, amused the ear by terminating his lines with these ending unisons.”
— from Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature by Isaac Disraeli

Naturally there is constant rivalry between these two, particularly since Pepusch composed the so-called "Schweine Canon" (hog-canon), for the gratification of Prince Eberhard.
— from The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas by Annesley, Charles, pseud.

This is heard in such words as ‘tüne,’ ‘stüpid,’ ‘tübe,’ ‘prodüce,’ ‘solitüde,’ ‘pictüre,’ &c., which should be sounded as if written ‘te + une,’ ‘ste + upid,’ ‘te + ube,’ &c., the one part uttered rapidly after the other.
— from A Book About Words by G. F. (George Frederick) Graham

The first, fixed for seven years, was on immovable property, so that the lowest class, with an income extending beyond the actual necessaries of life but under fifty gold florins, was to pay seven per cent., and the highest, having an income of 400 and over, twenty-two per cent.
— from Lorenzo de' Medici, the Magnificent (vol. 2 of 2) by Alfred von Reumont