Einer kann reden und Sieben können singen —One can speak and seven can sing.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

Ich thue recht und scheue keinen Feind —I do the right and fear no foe.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

“While we have the time, Father Christopher, let us reckon up,” said Kuzmitchov.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

We were surprised and sorry to find that it was a house we knew already and that the wretched creature we had carried with such difficulty was the very man who received us so kindly when first we came.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Then he alighted, and took his shield and spear, and bade his dwarf ride upon Sir Key’s horse.
— from The Legends of King Arthur and His Knights by Knowles, James, Sir

Then, third, the meaning is further limited to beliefs that rest upon some kind of evidence or testimony.
— from How We Think by John Dewey

Nagmandarmandar siya nákù mau ra ug si kinsa, He was ordering me around as though he were
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

That saw the King with the Hundred Knights, and ran unto Sir Kay and smote him down, and took his horse, and gave him King Lot, whereof he said gramercy.
— from Le Morte d'Arthur: Volume 1 by Malory, Thomas, Sir

It is not easy clearly to perceive why the principle of interest rightly understood should keep aloof from religious opinions; and it seems to me more easy to show why it should draw men to them.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 2 by Alexis de Tocqueville

America is thus as a nation rapidly drifting towards a state of things in which no man of science or letters will be accounted respectable unless some kind of badge or diploma is stamped upon him, and in which bare personality will be a mark of outcast estate.
— from Memories and Studies by William James

Magnus is as good an electrician as he is a chemist, and he could easily rig up some kind of transformer reducing the power of the current just enough to paralyze the victim—death by a myriad of small shocks instead of one big one.
— from The Gates of Chance by Van Tassel Sutphen

“He is brave; I am glad he remains unharmed,” said Kaupepee.
— from Myths & Legends of our New Possessions & Protectorate by Charles M. (Charles Montgomery) Skinner

"While we was away he rigged up some kind of a deal, Bart.
— from Captain Scraggs; Or, The Green-Pea Pirates by Peter B. (Peter Bernard) Kyne

But the young man, putting the lance aside with his sword just as it was about to strike him, rushed upon Sir Kay, and with a deft thrust struck him through a joint of his armour, so that Sir Kay fell backwards off his horse to the ground.
— from King Arthur's Knights The Tales Re-told for Boys & Girls by Henry Gilbert

Hows'ever, my own bein' wringin' wet, an' the sun pretty strong just then, I slipped it off an' hitched it atop o' the oar to dry an' be a flag at the same time, till I could rig up some kind o' streamer, out o' the seaweed.
— from The Delectable Duchy by Arthur Quiller-Couch

I am rather a rough sort, and I have a few vices that your respected uncle Sarsby knows all about, but I fancy you will get a better time with me than with that solemn old prig.
— from The Golden Web by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim

"Now I think we had better rig up some kind of a hut for shelter against the night dews," proposed the captain, when they were done eating.
— from Bob the Castaway; Or, The Wreck of the Eagle by Frank V. Webster

That it is often safe, and indispensably necessary however to rely upon such kind of evidence, is so obvious in itself—and so well established as a legal maxim—that the danger of sometimes convicting, upon a train of specious but deceptive circumstances, is less than the evil of acquittal in the absence of positive, conclusive, and infallible testimony.]
— from The Southern Literary Messenger, Vol. I., No. 4, December, 1834 by Various