All about them as they lay hung the darkness, hollow and immense, and they were oppressed by the loneliness and vastness of the dolven halls and endlessly branching stairs and passages. 1954 July 29, J[ohn] R[onald] R[euel] Tolkien, chapter IV, in The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings, London: George Allen & Unwin, →OCLC:
But yet if thou wouldſt conſider how often men go to ſeeke Death where it ſeemeth to be doluen moſt deepe[…] 1592, Phillip of Mornay, chapter XI, in Phillip Sidney Knight, Arthur Golding, transl., A Woorke Concerning the Trewneſſe of Chriſtian Religion […] , London: Robert Robinſon, page 159:
And my cōmyſſyon is not to call them to faith onely / but also to ye knowleg of trueth which among the gentyles was ouerheaped & doluen in the imagynacyons[…] 1534, Erasmus, chapter I, in Leonard Cox, transl., The paraphraſe of Eraſm[us] Roterdame vpon [the] epiſtle of ſai[n]t Paule vnto his diſcyple Titus […] , London: Iohan Bydell: