Since my education began I have always had things described to me with their colours and sounds by one with keen senses and a fine feeling for the significant.
— from The World I Live In by Helen Keller

'Be opposite with kinsman, surly with servants; let thy tongue tang with arguments of state; put thyself into the trick of singularity' and consequently sets down the manner how, as: a sad face, a reverend carriage, a slow tongue, in the habit of some sir of note, and so forth.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

And then let him wander in footpaths with the Breton peasant through fields where good dames sit on the sunny side of a bush or wall, knitting stockings, where there are long hedges of furze, golden-yellow with bloom—even in January—and listen to stories about corrigans , and about the dead who mingle here with the [Pg 16] living.
— from The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by W. Y. (Walter Yeeling) Evans-Wentz

By observation, we know somewhat of the economy, action, and nourishment of a finished animal; but we must transfer with great caution that observation to the growth of a foetus in the womb, and still more to the formation of an animalcule in the loins of its male parent.
— from Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion by David Hume

“What can we do, Dick?” gasped Roger, now beginning to realize the foolishness of taking that haphazard shot at such a terrible beast, against which he had been warned by others who knew something of its ferocity.
— from The Pioneer Boys of the Yellowstone; or, Lost in the Land of Wonders by St. George Rathborne

"I have been told by one who knows," she replied mysteriously.
— from The Coming of the King by Joseph Hocking

Had he kept back any part, it would have been told with less accuracy by others who knew some of the facts but not all of them.
— from The Wedding Ring A Series of Discourses for Husbands and Wives and Those Contemplating Matrimony by T. De Witt (Thomas De Witt) Talmage

Then she abruptly removed the apparatus, and, stooping to the knapsack, replaced it and took out a bunch of wire keys, signing to me to hand her the lamp.
— from The Quest of the Sacred Slipper by Sax Rohmer

It did not become him to venture opinions before one who knew so much of the wilderness.
— from The Young Trailers: A Story of Early Kentucky by Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander) Altsheler