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?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 124 Al were þurch Miracle iboren.

c1300 Havelok (Laud) (1868) 500 [Godard] Sum-del bigan him forto rewe; With-drow þe knif... Þer was miracle fair and god! Þat he þe knaue nouth ne slou.

a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) vii. 662 That therof mai be non obstacle, Bot if it stonde upon miracle.

c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) iii. 1364 (MED) Be verray hiȝe myracle, Pollydamas..From Grekis hond frely is eskapid.

1529 T. More Dialogue Heresyes i, in Wks. 132/2 Go to Christes gospell & loke on his first miracle, whither he might not haue prouided for wine without miracle.

1582 G. Whetstone Heptameron Ciuill Disc. ii. sig. E^v Our Ladye by myracle, had possessed them, with her earthlye Mansion.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Comedy of Errors (1623) v. i. 265 Then you fled into this Abbey heere, From whence I thinke you are come by Miracle . View more context for this quotation

1671 J. Milton Paradise Regain'd i. 337 Who brought me hither Will bring me hence... By Miracle he may, reply'd the Swain. View more context for this quotation

a1701 C. Sedley Tyrant of Crete iv. iii By miracle I scap'd thy plotted Mischiefs.

1743 E. Young Complaint: Night the Fourth 10 Am I fond of Life, Who scarce can think it possible, I live? Alive by Miracle!

1855 H. H. Milman Hist. Lat. Christianity IV. ix. ix. 256 By what was believed to be miracle, which might be holy art.

1869 H. P. Liddon Serm. Spec. Occas. (1897) viii. 164 When we take up the Book of Jonah, that which strikes us first of all..is the degree in which miracle pervades the whole narrative.

1889 ‘M. Twain’ Connecticut Yankee xxi. 258 The holy abbot prayed, and for answer a great stream of clear water burst forth by miracle in a desert place.

1919 R. Kipling Years Between 146 Our marriage, often set—By miracle delayed—At last is consummate.

1934 W. Empson Poems 11 Imagine, then, by miracle, with me, (Ambiguous gifts, as what gods give must be) What could not possibly be there.

1962 P. Goodman Lordly Hudson 98 Now have we come into a natural world where there are no things that do not exist and not by miracle the tree and beast invent in the unfinishing creation their beauty.