XXX And next to him malicious Envie rode, Upon a ravenous wolfe, and still did chaw Betweene his cankred teeth a venemous tode, 265 That all the poison ran about his chaw; But inwardly he chawed his owne maw At neighbours wealth, that made him ever sad; For death it was when any good he saw, And wept, that cause of weeping none he had, 270
— from Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I by Edmund Spenser

Thirty-seven years ago the French cut off the head of the reigning Bourbon, Louis XVI., and now they have called another branch of the same house, of whom Bonaparte said: "They never learn anything, and they never forget anything."
— from Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft

That he is forced her wishes to content; And thus, according to her prayer, commands The Child to be delivered to her hands; XIX And, not therein his orders to delay, They take the warrior of the unicorn To cruel Theodora; but one day Of respite has the knight: to have him torn In quarters, yet alive; to rend and slay Her prisoners publicly with shame and scorn, Seems a poor pain; and he must undergo Other unwonted and unmeasured woe.
— from Orlando Furioso by Lodovico Ariosto

“Sire,” replied his daughter in a low voice, as she embraced him, “I want to speak to you in secret.” Louis XI. appeared not to have heard her.
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac

Thus in the 'Faerie Queene' (Bk. I. , Canto IV. , XXX. ):— 'And next to him malicious Envy rode Upon a ravenous wolfe and still did chaw Between his cankred teeth a venomous tode.' Chaw is also much used in America. '
— from English As We Speak It in Ireland by P. W. (Patrick Weston) Joyce

It would seem to have declined in France with the glory of Louis XIV, and not to have survived the Revolution in England.
— from Facts and Speculations on the Origin and History of Playing Cards by William Andrew Chatto

XXXV Argantes nimbly turned his ready steed, And ere his foe was wist or well aware, Against his side he drove his courser's head, What force could he gainst so great might prepare?
— from Jerusalem Delivered by Torquato Tasso