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?1544 E. Allen tr. A. Alesius Auctorite Word of God sig. Biiii^v There is nothing so feble and weake, so that it be true, but it shal find place and be able to stand against all falshode.

1603 M. Drayton Barrons Wars v. lxiv. 119 As yet his breath found passage to and fro, With many a short pant, many a broken word.

1654 R. Vilvain Theoremata Theologica Suppl. 238 Not a tithing part of Mankind can possibly find place to stand on a new Earth.

1748 Biographia Britannica II. 967 His speech ready and intelligible..saying, it was a boyish sport to hunt for words, and argued a penury of matter, which would always find expression for itself.

a1750 A. Hill Poems in Wks. (1753) IV. 119 Bid tears, unwhining, find their source within.

1810 W. Scott Lady of Lake iii. 109 The billow..That far to seaward finds his source.

1819 P. B. Shelley Cenci v. iv. 102 The only ill which can find place Upon the giddy, sharp and narrow hour Tottering beneath us.

1845 Times 3 Mar. 6/4 It even bears witness to that world-historical spirit which finds its expression in such writers as Michelet.

1875 B. Jowett tr. Plato Dialogues (ed. 2) III. 696 An opening sufficient to enable the largest vessels to find ingress.

1886 W. D. Howells Indian Summer (1990) ii. 15 They quitted the bridge, and..moved down the street, which with difficulty finds space between the parapet of the river and shops of the mosaicists and dealers in statuary.

1906 A. H. Brooks Geogr. & Geol. Alaska (U. S. Geol. Survey) 50 A number of glaciers also find outlet in the Chilkat itself.

1960 R. Davies Voice from Attic vi. 219 Their sense of humor found vent in an epicene titter.

2009 Church Times 18 Dec. 47/1 The bedrock here is faith in the future, embracing a hope that can find expression in public rituals, beyond the culs-de-sac of celebrity culture.