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a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 23179 Quat he war wijs þat moght Stedfast hald þis dai in thoght!.. For þan mund he her make his wai Fra wrak to were him on þat dai.

a1425 (?c1350) Ywain & Gawain (1964) l. 250 (MED) Sone mi way to him I made.

?a1425 Mandeville's Trav. (Egerton) (1889) 156 I made my way..vnto Rome.

1582 N. Lichefield tr. F. L. de Castanheda 1st Bk. Hist. Discouerie E. Indias i. iii. 7 b The rest then departed,..making their waye into the Sea, with a South southwest winde.

1668 Earl of Clarendon Contempl. Psalms in Tracts (1727) 473 Those who..make their way through a sea of blood and rapine to grasp an authority which belonged not to them.

1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 108 He makes his way o're Mountains, and contemns Unruly Torrents, and unfoorded Streams. View more context for this quotation

1836 C. Thirlwall Hist. Greece III. 215 A very small number made their way to Ambracia.

1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. iii. 366 Hardly any gentleman had any difficulty in making his way to the royal presence.

1864 A. Trollope Small House at Allington I. xxi. 214 Johnny made his way on to the road by a stile that led out of the copse.

1874 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People vi. §4. 300 It was in despair of reaching Italy that the young scholar [sc. Erasmus] made his way to Oxford.

1927 J. Buchan Witch Wood xiv. 238 There are witnesses to depone to following you to the edge of the thing, as you made your way stealthily at dead of night.

1933 N.Y. Times 21 May ix. 4/2 From the station a neatly dressed, bespectacled ‘salary man’..makes his way home.

1990 J. M. Coetzee Age of Iron i. 19 I have cancer... It has made its way into the bone.

2010 Atlantic Monthly Oct. 81/1 His quirks are hard to miss as he makes his way to the first tee.

1579 T. North tr. Plutarch Liues 847 They made their best way [Fr. ilz entendirent] to saue them selues and their citie .

1675 W. Okeley Eben-Ezer i. 4 Whether to stay and speak with them, or to make the best of our way.

1705 J. Addison Remarks Italy 4 The next Day we again set Sail, and made the best of our way 'till we were forc'd, by contrary Winds, into St. Remo.

1716 London Gaz. No. 5450/2 Captain Vernon was ordered..to make the best of his Way to Sheerness.

1742 H. Fielding Joseph Andrews I. i. xv. 101 The Thief..without any Ceremony, stepped into the Street, and made the best of his Way . View more context for this quotation

1797 Gentleman's Mag. Oct. 877/1 I shall make the best of my way with them to the Nore.

1841 C. Dickens Old Curiosity Shop i. xxiii. 219 With that they parted; Mr. Swiveller to make the best of his way home and sleep himself sober; and Quilp [etc.].

1844 B. Disraeli Coningsby III. vii. iv. 131 Coningsby bade his friend farewell till the morrow, and made his best way to the Castle.

1868 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest (1876) II. vii. 154 The two brothers made the best of their way towards Bristol.

1906 Times 24 Nov. 3/4 St. Vincent's later orders..instructed him..to make the best of his way to Gibraltar and Cadiz.

2003 D. Cordingly Billy Ruffian 63 As they headed back from Ushant at the end of September, Lord Howe again made the signal for each ship to make the best of her way into Torbay.

1579 T. North tr. Plutarch Liues 1002 He would see them safe, and helpe to hide them in some secret place, vntil they had made their way and peace with Cæsar [Fr. ilz eussent fait leur appointement auec Cæsar].

1595 W. Allen et al. Conf. Next Succession Crowne of Ingland ii. 84 Robert making his way with Phillip de Valoys that soone after came to be king of France, he assisted the said Phillip earnestly to bring him to the crowne.

1618 W. Raleigh Apol. Guiana in Wks. (1751) II. 250 It was bruited..that..being once at Liberty,..having made my Way with some foreign Prince, I would turn Pirate.

a1660 in J. T. Gilbert Contemp. Hist. Ireland (1880) II. 37 He made his waies with Colonell Monke, Governor of Dundalke, for the Parliament, and bought of him worth £1500 of amunition.

1579 T. North tr. Plutarch Liues 835 They were all agreed together, euery man to put downe twelue Myriades & a halfe a peece, and then they should make their sute iustly & vprightly: and whosoeuer were taken fauty, and that had otherwise made his way by corruption [Fr. & qui se seroit aidé de corruption], that he should lose the money he had layed downe.

1601 F. Godwin Catal. Bishops of Eng. 447 Aldredus that being first a Monke of Winchester, then Abbot of Tauestock, was consecrate Bishop of Worceter the yeere 1046, making his way by money and bribes liberally bestowed amongst Courtiers.

1608 W. Shakespeare King Lear xxiv. 29 If thou dost As this instructs thee, thou dost make thy way To noble fortunes. View more context for this quotation

1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 123. ¶4 He was to make his Way in the World by his own Industry.

1771 T. Smollett Humphry Clinker II. 219 I am not at all surprised that these Scots make their way in every quarter of the globe.

1839 C. M. S. Kirkland New Home (1855) 219 Many English families reside in our vicinity, some of them well calculated to make their way anywhere.

1853 E. Bulwer-Lytton My Novel I. ii. vi. 119 A young man who has his own way to make in life had better avoid all intimacy with those of his own age who have no kindred objects.

1935 C. Odets Waiting for Lefty in Waiting for Lefty & Other Plays (1993) 38 He scorns the inability of others to make their way in life, but he likes people for whatever good qualities they possess.

1960 H. Pinter Caretaker 51 If you got an older brother you want to push him, you want to see him make his way.

2005 D. le Vack God's Golden Acre ix. 71 He made his way in life successfully so that by the late 1930s,..he was a man with some prospects.

1589 I. B. Mirrour to All that loue to follow Warres sig. A4 First brake his launce, and then, with sword he made his way: Emidst his foes in place, And did bestirre him so, As he whom Countries cause, made desperate on to go.

1656 A. Cowley To Sir W. Davenant 35 Thy Fancy like a Flame its way does make, And leave bright Tracks for following Pens to take.

1688 P. Rycaut tr. G. de la Vega Royal Comm. Peru (new ed.) v. xix. 796 Gonçalo Piçarro sent his Chaplain..to Diego Centeno, requiring him to permit him a free passage to depart, and not force him to make his way by Battel.

1703 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion II. vi. 63 But if they compell'd him to make his way, and enter the Town by force, it would not be in his power to keep his Soldiers from taking that which they should win with their blood.

1645 Rev. Pamphlet of J. Lilburne 2 The fourth Complaint making it's way, is, the robbing you of your liberty in the publique use of the Presse.

1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 119. ¶6 This infamous Piece of Good Breeding, which reigns among the Coxcombs of the Town, has not yet made its way into the Country.

1770 F. Warner Hist. Ireland II. ix. 274 Superstition as usual had made its way.

1861 M. Pattison in Westm. Rev. Apr. 415 It might have been anticipated that Luther's doctrines would have made their way early among this little colony of his countrymen.

1874 J. T. Micklethwaite Mod. Parish Churches 80 Brass instruments have already begun to make their way.

1911 Encycl. Brit. XXVI. 5/2 The view that women should be admitted to hold land on certain occasions had made its way in England as early as Anglo-Saxon times.

1987 C. Achebe Anthills of Savannah iv. 53 Within a week it spread to members of the Cabinet and down to the Bassa cocktail set. From there it made its way..into the general community.

2015 Berkshire Eagle (Pittsfield, Mass.) (Nexis) 2 Feb. As science and knowledge of nutrition has advanced, the ideas have made their way into the classroom.