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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
1872 [1389], Cambuskenneth Abbey, Registrum Monasterii S. Marie de Cambuskenneth, A.D. 1147-1535, page 260:
[…] vpon oure Lady day at nixt cummis hudles, hosles, hatles, scholes, beltles, and knyfles, in the tyme of the hie mess, with ane candill of twa pund of wax in his hand, and thare before the pepill offer it till oure Lady, […]
1400, Maxwell Mem. I., 140:
the fourty schylyne worth of land at remaynys
1896 [a. {{{1}}} 1400], John Barbour, Legends of the Saints: In the Scottish Dialect of the Fourteenth Century, page 134:
[…] fra he wist at hyr wil was , & sad : […]
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