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 * 1678 — John Bunyan. The Pilgrim's Progress.
 * When at the first I took my pen in hand Thus for to write, I did not understand That I at all should make a little book In such a mode; nay, I had undertook To make another; which, when almost done, Before I was aware, I this begun.
 * Nay, then, thought I, if that you breed so fast, I'll put you by yourselves, lest you at last Should prove ad infinitum, and eat out The book that I already am about.
 * For, having now my method by the end, Still as I pulled, it came; and so I penned It down: until it came at last to be, For length and breadth, the bigness which you see.


 * 1719 — Daniel Defoe. Robinson Crusoe.
 * I was born in the year 1632, in the city of York, of a good family, though not of that country, my father being a foreigner of Bremen, who settled first at Hull.
 * He got a good estate by merchandise, and leaving off his trade, lived afterwards at York, from whence he had married my mother, whose relations were named Robinson, a very good family in that country, and from whom I was called Robinson Kreutznaer; but, by the usual corruption of words in England, we are now called—nay we call ourselves and write our name—Crusoe; and so my companions always called me.
 * I had two elder brothers, one of whom was lieutenant-colonel to an English regiment of foot in Flanders, formerly commanded by the famous Colonel Lockhart, and was killed at the battle near Dunkirk against the Spaniards.


 * 1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.
 * If we were not perfectly convinced that Hamlet's Father died before the play began, there would be nothing more remarkable in his taking a stroll at night, in an easterly wind, upon his own ramparts, than there would be in any other middle-aged gentleman rashly turning out after dark in a breezy spot — say Saint Paul's Churchyard for instance — literally to astonish his son's weak mind.
 * He carried his own low temperature always about with him; he iced his office in the dog-days; and didn't thaw it one degree at Christmas.
 * Even the blind men's dogs appeared to know him; and when they saw him coming on, would tug their owners into doorways and up courts; and then would wag their tails as though they said, "No eye at all is better than an evil eye, dark master!"


 * 1375, Barb.:
 * [i. 248] to do that at hys hart hym drawis to [[xv. 5] thai armyt thame, all at thar war
 * 1400, Maxwell Mem. I., 140:
 * the fourty schylyne worth of land at remaynys
 * c 1420, Wynt. v. 509:
 * he suld pay at he awcht
 * 1490, Irland Mir. I. 31/22:
 * I am at I am
 * a 1500, Rauf C., 268:
 * to serue him all at thay mocht
 * 1503, Lanark B. Rec., 13:
 * to the colyair at socht the collhewcht
 * 1530, Edinb. B. Rec. II. 36:
 * doand at was in him till haif infekkit all the toune
 * 1547, Reg. Cupar A., II. 45:
 * the gait at passis to the Cawsayend
 * 1559, St. A. Kirk S., 17:
 * ony sanctis at are departet
 * 1579, Black Bk. Taymouth, 142:
 * ne warks at is begun in ony of thir dais
 * 1579, Black Bk. Taymouth, 142:
 * ne warks at is begun in ony of thir dais