Take this herb, which is one of great virtue, and keep it about you when you go to Circe's house, it will be a talisman to you against every kind of mischief.
— from The Odyssey Rendered into English prose for the use of those who cannot read the original by Homer

There are in it many sorts of palm trees that are watered by it, different from each other in taste and name; the better sort of them, when they are pressed, yield an excellent kind of honey, not much inferior in sweetness to other honey.
— from The Wars of the Jews; Or, The History of the Destruction of Jerusalem by Flavius Josephus

Miao Chuang desires an Heir In the twenty-first year of the reign of Ta Hao, the Great Great One, of the Golden Heavenly Dynasty, a man named P’o Chia, whose first name was Lo Yü, an enterprising kinglet of Hsi Yii, seized the throne for twenty years, after carrying on a war for a space of three years.
— from Myths and Legends of China by E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers) Werner

"By boiling dripping with onions, garlic, and spices; a good table-spoonful of this gives a nice taste to water, and you add every kind of vegetable you can obtain, and eat it with brown bread steeped in it.
— from Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 15, August, 1851 by Various

“She stocked that water, years ago, every kind of trout she could get—native cutthroat, rainbow, Dolly Varden, Eastern brook, steelheads, and I don’t know what all, including grayling—and she has made a living by selling the fishing rights there to anglers who stop at her house.
— from The Young Alaskans on the Missouri by Emerson Hough

I possessed, for many years, an extensive knowledge of the degree of advantage attendant upon such a system in the army; and I can safely assert to your lordships, that it is quite curious to remark how small an amount of correspondence is carried on by soldiers, notwithstanding they enjoy the utmost facility for doing so.
— from Maxims and Opinions of Field-Marshal His Grace the Duke of Wellington, Selected From His Writings and Speeches During a Public Life of More Than Half a Century by Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of

Yea, all earthly knowledge of heavenly things must needs be, in some sort, error, because they are seen as it were by reflection through an imperfect glass; for the perfect God none hath seen nor can see in the flesh.
— from Onesimus: Memoirs of a Disciple of St. Paul by Edwin Abbott Abbott

"Well," Peter replied thoughtfully, "it gives you an exact knowledge of the time to expect your seedlings to poke up.
— from The Library of Work and Play: Gardening and Farming. by Ellen Eddy Shaw

"You are either knave or fool, Wat.
— from Horse-Shoe Robinson: A Tale of the Tory Ascendency by John Pendleton Kennedy

"How does our great foe go?" "Harkaway?" "Yes." "An English knight of old.
— from Jack Harkaway and His Son's Escape from the Brigands of Greece by Bracebridge Hemyng

It is impossible for me, by numbers, to give you an exact knowledge of the fatality of such spots; because, in the greater part of the City, hospitals, dispensaries, and private [39] practice, divide with the parochial officers the treatment of the sick, and diminish the returns of sickness which those officers would otherwise have to show.
— from Reports Relating to the Sanitary Condition of the City of London by John Simon