Sparing the goods of the common people, he gave the private property of Ring over to be plundered, and slew his kinsfolk; Odd also having joined his forces to Omund.
— from The Danish History, Books I-IX by Grammaticus Saxo

Orme [ Historical Fragments , Notes, p. xxii] was acquainted with this passage, and shows his knowledge of the Hindu character by observing that it was a strange pedigree to assign a Hindu prince, for Khusru, of the religion of Zoroaster, though compelled to many abstinences, was not restrained from eating beef: and Anquetil du Perron says of the Parsis, their descendants, that they have refrained since their emigration from slaying the cow merely to please the Hindu. 13 .
— from Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 1 of 3 or the Central and Western Rajput States of India by James Tod

Lady Ruth will play, and she hardly knows one card from another.
— from The Bertrams by Anthony Trollope

I have seen a female shaheen hawking at snipe for her own pleasure, and saw her knock one down very close to me in the long grass, but she could not find it.
— from The Art and Practice of Hawking by E. B. (Edward Blair) Michell

The kings also, it is ordained, shall have charge of the oracles which are given, but the Pythians also shall have knowledge of them.
— from The History of Herodotus — Volume 2 by Herodotus

He was always pleased at showing his knowledge of the most orthodox and strict views of Roman affairs.
— from Lord Lyons: A Record of British Diplomacy, Vol. 2 of 2 by Newton, Thomas Wodehouse Legh, Baron

But people, and Servius himself, knew of another bough, near Aricia, and located (conjecturally?)
— from An Introduction to Mythology by Lewis Spence

Behind them Joseph Hume, who turns his pate To where great Marlbro’ House in princely state Shelters a host of lacqueys, lords and pages, And says he knows of dowagers a crowd, Who, without trumpeting so very loud, Would do so much, and more, for half the wages.
— from The Poems and Verses of Charles Dickens by Charles Dickens