Both Ponsonby and his companion were immediately killed by the Polish cavalry, who, later in the day, were almost annihilated by the Heavy Brigade which Ponsonby had commanded.
— from The Waterloo Roll Call With Biographical Notes and Anecdotes by Charles Dalton

If I ever had had any curiosity to read it, the awful tragedy of young Castaigne, whom I knew, prevented me from exploring its wicked pages.
— from The King in Yellow by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

You might as well ask a man to eat molecules with a pair of chop-sticks, as to try to interest me about the lesser carnivora, when I know of what is before me.”
— from Dracula by Bram Stoker

Your company to th' Capitol; where, I know, Our greatest friends attend us. LARTIUS.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

Some time ago I was at a public meeting when a man who stands very high in the community, who is king in his specialty, was called upon to give his opinion upon the matter under consideration, and he got up and trembled and stammered and could scarcely say his soul was his own.
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden

It would appear, from other authorities, that between 1646 and 1660 scarcely any pews had been erected; and Sir C. Wren is known to have objected to their introduction into his London churches.—B.] with her.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Consequently we find China what is known to sociology as an ‘aggregate of the first order,’ which during its evolution has parted with its internal life-heat without absorbing enough from external sources to enable it to retain the plastic condition necessary to further, or at least rapid, development.
— from Myths and Legends of China by E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers) Werner

Then said she, 'Needs must I go to Florence, come Saturday, to carry back the wool I have spun and get my spinning-wheel mended; and an you will lend me five crowns, which I know you have by you, I can take my watchet gown out of pawn and my Sunday girdle [367] that I brought my husband, for you see I cannot go to church nor to any decent place, because I have them not; and after I will still do what you would have me.'
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

Such was the behaviour of Arcesilaus on various occasions, and when Apelles 432 of Chios was ill, knowing his poverty, he took with him twenty drachmæ when he visited him, and sitting down beside him he said, "There is nothing here but those elements of Empedocles, 'fire and water and earth and balmy expanse of air,' but you don't lie very comfortably," and with that he moved his pillow, and privately put the money under it.
— from Plutarch's Morals by Plutarch

Thence to my uncle Wight’s, where Dr. of——-, among others, dined, and his wife, a seeming proud conceited woman, I know not what to make of her, but the Dr’s.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

How instantly and easily the bachelor doubles his world when he marries, and enters into the unknown fellowship of the to him continually increasing company which is known in popular language as "all his wife's relations."
— from The Complete Writings of Charles Dudley Warner — Volume 1 by Charles Dudley Warner

Mathematics creates what it knows; it contains in itself its own elements, and thus forms a perfect copy of the divine knowledge ( scientiae divinae similes evadunt ).
— from The Philosophy of Giambattista Vico by Benedetto Croce

II CHAPTER I. JEFFERSON DAVIS ON REBELLION Civil War in Kansas.
— from Abraham Lincoln, a History — Volume 02 by John G. (John George) Nicolay

I hope will forgive my mentioning him without asking his consent.] whom I knew to be above these prejudices: and who has deserv'd, and is deserving, well of the public, in many other instances, by his attention to Literature and the elegant Arts.
— from The Farmer's Boy: A Rural Poem by Robert Bloomfield

"You answer me not when I know that you could— When I know that you could and you should; Though the storms be abroad on the wave; Though the rain droppeth down with a wail to the wood, And my heart is as cold as your grave!" H2 anchor God Help Our Men at Sea
— from The Poems of Henry Kendall With Biographical Note by Bertram Stevens by Henry Kendall

He greatly improved the methods of organic analysis, and was thereby enabled to determine the empirical formulæ of a number of carbon compounds of which the composition was imperfectly known.
— from History of Chemistry, Volume 2 (of 2) From 1850 to 1910 by T. E. (Thomas Edward) Thorpe

In a moment the news will come who is killed.
— from So Runs the World by Henryk Sienkiewicz

There is a small piece of land, just off the road which passes the Monnaie, and leads from the Bailiff’s Cross Road to the Ecluse Corbin, which is known as “Le Friquet du Gibet.”
— from Guernsey Folk Lore a collection of popular superstitions, legendary tales, peculiar customs, proverbs, weather sayings, etc., of the people of that island by MacCulloch, Edgar, Sir

Well there are a good many from my own city who I know—some I talk to on private matters and some I wont.
— from The Underground Railroad A Record of Facts, Authentic Narratives, Letters, &c., Narrating the Hardships, Hair-Breadth Escapes and Death Struggles of the Slaves in Their Efforts for Freedom, As Related by Themselves and Others, or Witnessed by the Author. by William Still

A large swarm, will not eat two pounds of honey during the whole cold winter, if kept from the light.
— from Soil Culture Containing a Comprehensive View of Agriculture, Horticulture, Pomology, Domestic Animals, Rural Economy, and Agricultural Literature by J. H. Walden