That by which they are said to get the most money, is, when young gentlewomen of good families and reputation have happened to be with child before marriage, a round sum is often bestowed among the gypsies, for some one mort to take the child; and as that is never heard of more by the true mother and family, so the disgrace is kept concealed from the world; and, if the child lives, it never knows its parents.
— from 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

Additional data were [356] obtained on numerous field trips to various collecting localities in northeastern Kansas.
— from Natural History of the Racer Coluber constrictor by Henry S. (Henry Sheldon) Fitch

In directing these remarks to the citizens of this country the author gives in detail the Negroes' grounds for complaint and shows how because of the unjust treatment of the blacks in the United States this country has become an object of suspicion in South America, where the color line is not known.
— from The Journal of Negro History, Volume 3, 1918 by Various

[186] The proceedings of the committee were secret, and comparatively little is now known about their work.
— from The Underground Railroad from Slavery to Freedom: A comprehensive history by Wilbur Henry Siebert

But it is through the Understanding alone, by means of Causality, that we gain knowledge of the necessity of a succession of [107] two states: that is, of a change; and even the fact that we are able to conceive the necessity of a succession at all, proves already that the causal law is not known to us empirically, but given us à priori .
— from On the Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason, and On the Will in Nature: Two Essays (revised edition) by Arthur Schopenhauer