The chickens and dogs were making free of the galleries, and the hogs wallowed in peaceful immunity underneath.

1967, Berechiah ben Natronai ha-Nakdan, Fables of a Jewish Aesop, translated by Moses Hadas, Jaffrey, NH: David R. Godine, 2001, p. 110 https://books.google.ca/books?id=s6EjsopJmp4C&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false
There she saw many mice making free of wheat and barley; six measures of barley they meted out to themselves to bring to their holes, until they had enough and to spare.

[…] a young woman curtsied to him. "Please make free of my home," said she.

He did not know everyone knew he had a gun; that the children who made free of every hut as the cockroaches knew everything and chattered all.

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