"Eft" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... solitude was further accentuated to-day by the stopping of the clock for want of winding, and the fall into the chimney-corner of flakes of soot loosened by the rains. At noon she heard a slight rustling outside the window, and found that it was caused by an eft which had crept out of the leaves to bask in the last sun-rays that would be worth having till the ...
— The Woodlanders • Thomas Hardy
... Yit eft-sonnys, my childe, let us resorte To the intente of oure fyrst matiere Digresside, somwhat fulle we wolld reporte, 430 And reuyue the lawde of them that were Founders of oure langage, thilke fadyrs dere, Who-is soulis god [aboue] in b[l]esse inhaunce That lusten so oure langage ...
— Caxton's Book of Curtesye • Frederick J. Furnivall |
