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they are kind to

2, 104, if there are gods, they are kind to men .
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

them and knew that

The stories told of the immorality in such places as Yalta are to a great extent untrue; he despised them, and knew that such stories were for the most part made up by persons who would themselves have been glad to sin if they had been able; but when the lady sat down at the next table three paces from him, he remembered these tales of easy conquests, of trips to the mountains, and the tempting thought of a swift, fleeting love affair, a romance with an unknown woman, whose name he did not know, suddenly took possession of him.
— from The Lady with the Dog and Other Stories by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

touched and kissed these

The saints and martyrs, whose intercession was implored, were seated on the right hand if God; but the gracious and often supernatural favors, which, in the popular belief, were showered round their tomb, conveyed an unquestionable sanction of the devout pilgrims, who visited, and touched, and kissed these lifeless remains, the memorials of their merits and sufferings.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

to always keep the

The army was expected to live on the country, and to always keep the wagons full of forage and provisions against a possible delay of a few days.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

those and know that

I have examined those and know that they are made of dog-hair, and not good dog-hair at that.
— from What Is Man? and Other Essays by Mark Twain

truth and knighthood that

I swear by truth and knighthood that I gave No cause, not willingly, for such a love: To this I call my friends in testimony, Her brethren, and her father, who himself Besought me to be plain and blunt, and use, To break her passion, some discourtesy Against my nature: what I could, I did.
— from Idylls of the King by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron

them and kept them

I should not be here at all unless I had cultivated them and kept them from decay.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

thus and known to

Yet better thus, and known to be contemn’d, Than still contemn’d and flatter’d.
— from The Tragedy of King Lear by William Shakespeare

this and knowing the

Hearing this, and knowing the fatal obstinacy of the Roman catholics, the protestants all fell prostrate, lifted their hands and hearts to heaven, prayed with great sincerity and fervency, and then bowing down, put their faces close to the ground, and patiently waited their fate, which was soon decided, for the papists fell upon them with unremitting fury, and having cut them to pieces, left the mangled bodies and limbs in the cave.
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

then asked K to

"And what if I don't confess, could you not help me then?" asked K. to test her out.
— from The Trial by Franz Kafka

that Ah knew the

"He insisted that Ah knew the drift o' his remarks, which Ah didn't, and rung in something about a man on a white horse.
— from A Tar-Heel Baron by Mabell S. C. (Mabell Shippie Clarke) Smith

truth and knew the

The teacher who said to her pupils, "I shall read to you tomorrow," recognized this truth and knew the value of an occasional exercise of that kind.
— from Elson Grammar School Literature v4 by William H. (William Harris) Elson

them and keep them

I know that you will look after them, and keep them well.
— from With Kitchener in the Soudan: A Story of Atbara and Omdurman by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

than are known to

What should be done would be to own a suitable fast boat; to locate on each of the more important old sites a party for careful, prolonged excavation; and to try to locate, in the rear of or on the higher places on the present river flats, more ancient sites than are known to date.
— from Anthropological Survey in Alaska by Aleš Hrdlička

that are known to

Have we not even brick buildings of Roman erection, that are known to have been built before the Christian era?
— from The Storehouses of the King; Or, the Pyramids of Egypt What They Are and Who Built Them by Jane (Trill) van Gelder

they all knew to

This, however, they all knew to be out of the question.
— from Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. IX.—February, 1851.—Vol. II. by Various

tendered are known to

[359] Nor is the prestige small or unimportant which Her Majesty's service derives from the fact that any expressions of opinion, or any advice tendered, are known to be wholly free from any interested motives.
— from Newfoundland to Cochin China By the Golden Wave, New Nippon, and the Forbidden City by Ethel Gwendoline Vincent

then a knee to

He lets the Martian have a rabbit punch, then a forearm smash, then a knee to his stomach.
— from Hoiman and the Solar Circuit by G. Gordon Dewey

the artist knew that

The execution is here especially rude, and of true Byzantine rigidity, while, as if the artist knew that his long lean figures were anything but secure upon their feet, he has given them each a separate little pedestal.
— from Walks in Rome by Augustus J. C. (Augustus John Cuthbert) Hare

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