Among others I noted that sand goby mentioned by Aristotle and commonly known by the name sea loach, which is encountered exclusively in the salty waters next to the Nile Delta.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World by Jules Verne

Having, therefore, instructed their servants in everything they were to do, six days afterwards they took him out to hunt, with as great a retinue of huntsmen and beaters as a crowned king.
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

They were similar to their European brethren, and are commonly known by the name of American rabbits.
— from The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne

After some time enter King Basilio, Astolfo, and Clotaldo) KING.
— from Life Is a Dream by Pedro Calderón de la Barca

But as all conceptual knowledge stands for intuitive knowledge, and terminates therein, I abstract from this complication, and confine myself to those memories in which the past is directly imaged in the mind, or, as we say, intuitively known.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

Pallas where she stood Somewhat apart, her clear and barèd limbs O'erthwarted with the brazen-headed spear Upon her pearly shoulder leaning cold; The while, above, her full and earnest eye Over her snowcold breast and angry cheek Kept watch, waiting decision, made reply.
— from The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron

"I don't believe as anybody could keep it in their head," the woman-servant continued, tentatively.
— from The Rainbow by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

" "What is it then," the young man returned—"from the moment it isn't her blessing and a cheque?" Kate was complete.
— from The Wings of the Dove, Volume II by Henry James

The Malays and Arabians, whose vessels were early found between Aden and Canton, knew it as China, and probably introduced the name into Europe before 1500.
— from The Middle Kingdom, Volume 1 (of 2) A Survey of the Geography, Government, Literature, Social Life, Arts, and History of the Chinese Empire and its Inhabitants by S. Wells (Samuel Wells) Williams

"Out with the boys awhile?" asked Coltrane kindly.
— from Whirligigs by O. Henry

He was a pleasant man, tall and slight in figure, with blue eyes, a brown beard, and a cheery, kindly manner, which made him a favorite with everybody, and especially with boys, in whose projects he was always interested.
— from Apples, Ripe and Rosy, Sir And Other Stories for Boys and Girls by Mary Catherine Crowley

It may readily be conceived that Schmucke listened to this reckoning with amazement, for he knew about as much of business as a cat knows of music.
— from Poor Relations by Honoré de Balzac

The merit or demerit of the opinions themselves depends on their originating and determining causes, which may differ in every different believer, and are certainly known to Him alone, who commanded us, Judge not, lest ye be judged .
— from Aids to Reflection; and, The Confessions of an Inquiring Spirit by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Whereupon Mr. Page glared at her belligerently, noted her little row of curls, revised his first opinion of her, set her down not only as a cousin, but as a crazy kid besides, and removed half a dozen steps to a chair.
— from The Bells of San Juan by Jackson Gregory

By admitting a certain kind of stable union in the platino-ammonium grouping, it is possible to imagine that the chlorine does not react with its customary facility, because access to a portion of the atoms of chlorine in this complex grouping is difficult, and the chlorine union is not the same as we usually meet in the saline compounds of chlorine.
— from The Principles of Chemistry, Volume II by Dmitry Ivanovich Mendeleyev

Besides, as regards the use of bow and arrow, certainly known to the Malays, although the intercourse of the latter with other tribes on the north Australian coast has been undoubtedly frequent, nowhere have the Australian natives adopted that kind of arm, whilst in New Guinea and all over Northern Polynesia the bow and arrow is the inevitable war accoutrement of the savage, who certainly obtained the knowledge of it from his Malay forefathers.
— from The History of Australian Exploration from 1788 to 1888 by Ernest Favenc