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OE Ælfric Catholic Homilies: 1st Ser. (Royal) (1997) xxvi. 397 Me [sc. St Peter] he clypað nu to his rice, awendað for þi mine fotwelmas to þam heofonlican wege.

c1392 Equatorie of Planetis 34 (MED) Ne lettere E ne seruyth nat but for to shewe the which wey þt thow shalt procede fro lettere D.

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 22573 Þe fixses þat þar-in er stade,..Til erth wai [Gött. Till erdward] þan sal þai fle.

a1450 (c1410) H. Lovelich Hist. Holy Grail liii. l. 302 The kyng Abowtes sente be Every way bothe Aftyr Masowns And Carpentere, An hows Of Religiown to Fownden there.

?1520 J. Rastell Nature .iiii. Element sig. Ci As for almayne lyeth this way Here lyeth denmarke and norway And northwarde on this syde There lyeth Iselonde.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) iv. i. 62 By the pricking of my Thumbes, Something wicked this way comes. View more context for this quotation

a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 1 (1623) iii. vii. 52 Oh turne thy edged Sword another way.

1689 R. Milward Selden's Table-talk 31 As take a straw and throw it up into the Air, you shall see by that which way the Wind is.

1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Æneis xi, in tr. Virgil Wks. 571 This way, and that his winding Course he bends.

1744 M. Bishop Life Matthew Bishop 190 Our advantageous Ground was the Destruction of a great many Thousands of the French, for we had them all Ways, Front, and Rear, and Flank.

1762 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy V. x. 54 A pull of a trigger—a push of a bayonet an inch this way or that—makes the difference.

1821 W. Scott Kenilworth II. xi. 277 Janet..ventured to ask her lady, which way she proposed to direct her flight.

1846 G. P. R. James Step-mother II. xxxviii. 106 The instant he entered—though the servant said, ‘this way, sir.’

1875 Belgravia July 133 He passed round, the way of the wine, a subscription-list, and the conversation flowed fast and furious.

1908 C. Igglesden Saunter through Kent VIII. 22 On the Canterbury road, which runs in a southerly way out of the village, stands an old Georgian residence.

1928 J. M. Barrie Peter Pan i, in Plays 32 Wendy: Where do you live now? Peter: With the lost boys... They are the children who fall out of their prams when the nurse is looking the other way.

1938 D. Baker Young Man with Horn ii. i. 103 There it was, faced this way and faced that way.

1994 Daily Mail 29 Sept. 9/1 He helped me..out of a terrible mess when I hadn't got a clue which way to turn.

2014 J. Al-Khalili & J. McFadden Life on Edge iv. 126 It resembles the path taken by an intoxicated drinker exiting a bar, wandering this way and that until he eventually finds his way home.

1692 L. D. Check to Debauchery 109 Sometimes the Inclinations of the Will..preceed the Acts of the Understanding, tho' most commonly it is the other way, the Will and Passions not easily moving without the Reasoning of the Understanding to excite them.

1747 B. Hoadly Suspicious Husband v. ii. 72 She for a Sixpenny Piece would have constru'd it the other way.

1834 Edinb. Rev. Oct. 83 The fault, in the present instance, is the other way.

1877 Cases Court of Session 4th Ser. 4 823 Taxing enactments are not construed in favour of the Crown unless that is obviously their fair meaning. The rule is rather the other way.

1932 D. L. Sayers Have his Carcase xxxiv. 443 Young Simons recognised something familiar in his face, which may have been a family resemblance. But it may quite likely have been the other way.

1973 R. K. Merton Sociol. of Sci. v. 99 The sociology of knowledge has long been regarded as a complex and esoteric subject... To some of us, it seems quite the other way.

2010 M. O'Brien Intellectual Life & Amer. South 1810–60 iii. 97 In modern urban societies, alienation defends against the press of bodies and minds, but antebellum Southerners' difficulty was the other way.