Middlemarch vocabulary

Promises do not tempt me, nor presents sap my resolution, nor obsequiousness allure, nor amorous wiles ensnare me; and although by my grandmother's reckoning I shall be but fifteen next Michaelmas, I am already old in thought, and have more understanding than my years would seem to promise.

Miguel de Cervantes. La gitanilla

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Summer drew to an end, and early autumn: it was past Michaelmas, but the harvest was late that year, and a few of our fields were still uncleared.

Emily Brontë. Wuthering Heights (1847)

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At Michaelmas Charles went to spend three days at the Bertaux.

Gustave Flaubert. Madame Bovary