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I can allow my self to be Animal sociale, appliable to my company, but not gregale, to herd my self in every troup.

From Letters to Severall Persons of Honour by Donne, John

Morcard King of Ireland and some of his successors were so appliable vnto him, that they seemed to depend vpon his command.

From The Lives of the III Normans, Kings of England: William the First, William the Second, Henrie the First by Hayward, John