eis tas aporrhoas dialythen. kaitoi, kan ei mêden parakeoit' autô sidêrion, eis ton aera skedannytai, malist' ei kai thermos hyparchoi.
— from Galen: On the Natural Faculties by Galen

I knew every man present, and curiously enough the knowledge gave me a sense of relief.
— from In Hostile Red by Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander) Altsheler

Indeed it must be remembered that all through the Revolutionary War not only was there a minority actively favorable to the royal cause, but there was also a minority—so large that, added to the preceding, it has been doubted whether it was not a majority—that was but lukewarm in its devotion to the American side, and was kept even moderately patriotic almost as much by the excesses of the British troops and blunders of the British generals and ministers, as by the valor of our own soldiers, or the skill of our own statesmen.
— from Gouverneur Morris by Theodore Roosevelt

More skilful in self knowledge, even more pure, as tempted more .
— from Macmillan's Reading Books. Book V by Anonymous

To euery man without all thought and care For they of wysdome and reason ar but bare And who that his owne secrete wyll forth tell Howe sholde he hyde another mannes counsell Yet other be whiche by theyr flaterynge trayne Labour to knowe euery mannys pryuete And by and by to shewe it forth agayne Of them be ware for they disceyfull be.
— from The Ship of Fools, Volume 1 by Sebastian Brant

He made it his business to know each man personally, and there was scarcely a man to whom he did not endear himself.
— from A Chronicle of Jails by Darrell Figgis

During this entire colloquy Sir Archibald Maxwell Mackenzie, Baronet, of Kindarroch, eyed me precisely as if he had been a dignified mastiff observing the incomprehensible friskings of a playful, foolish puppy of quite another species.
— from The Affair at the Inn by Jane Helen Findlater

"You seem to know everything, Mr Petty, about boats and sailing; and I am so ignorant.
— from True to a Type, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Robert Cleland