"As to governing them well," said Sancho, "there's no need of charging me to do that, for I'm kind-hearted by nature, and full of compassion for the poor; there's no stealing the loaf from him who kneads and bakes;' and by my faith it won't do to throw false dice with me; I am an old dog, and I know all about 'tus, tus;' I can be wide-awake if need be, and I don't let clouds come before my eyes, for I know where the shoe pinches me; I say so, because with me the good will have support and protection, and the bad neither footing nor access.
"The History of Don Quixote, Volume II., Complete"
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
And she answers with no sign; Utters neither yea nor nay; Fires the water hued as wine; kneads another spark in clay.
"The Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith"
George Meredith
He placed him as a very ordinary German, a common type in the Fatherland, simple-minded, pedantic, inquisitive, and a prodigious bore withal but dangerous, for of this stuff German discipline kneads militarists.
"Okewood of the Secret Service"
Valentine Williams