Many times did I take up my pen to write it, and many did I lay it down again, not knowing what to write.
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Monarchies of long standing were disestablished and new kingdoms—Napoleonic kingdoms—were raised up in their place.
— from The Waterloo Roll Call With Biographical Notes and Anecdotes by Charles Dalton

In his annual report for 1903, pages 29 and 30, in describing the Surigao affair, Governor Taft correctly states that a band of outlaws came into the town of Surigao on the day above named, killed Captain Clark, the officer in charge of the constabulary, took the constabulary’s guns, while they were all away at their mid-day meal, scattered about the town, and departed.
— from The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 by James H. (James Henderson) Blount

That they must abstain from intoxication has been already remarked by us; for of all persons a guardian should be the last to get drunk and not know where in the world he is.
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato

And as we have this consolation springing from no very visionary hope or wild fancy, I entreat you, senora, to form new resolutions in your better mind, as I mean to do in mine, preparing yourself to look forward to happier fortunes; for I swear to you by the faith of a gentleman and a Christian not to desert you until I see you in possession of Don Fernando, and if I cannot by words induce him to recognise his obligation to you, in that case to avail myself of the right which my rank as a gentleman gives me, and with just cause challenge him on account of the injury he has done you, not regarding my own wrongs, which I shall leave to Heaven to avenge, while I on earth devote myself to yours.” Cardenio’s words completed the astonishment of Dorothea, and not knowing how to return thanks for such an offer, she attempted to kiss his feet; but Cardenio would not permit it, and the licentiate replied for both, commended the sound reasoning of Cardenio, and lastly, begged, advised, and urged them to come with him to his village, where they might furnish themselves with what they needed, and take measures to discover Don Fernando, or restore Dorothea to her parents, or do what seemed to them most advisable.
— from The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Complete by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

When day dawned the crews made for the shore and ran away, while Gnaeus, in utter dismay, and not knowing in the least what to do, eventually surrendered to the enemy.
— from The Histories of Polybius, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Polybius

One great evil, at least, that "the Fall" brought upon the race of man, is, that human beings are born into the world with the spiritual person all submerged by the animal nature; or, to use Paul's figure, the spirit is enslaved by the flesh; and such is the extent of this that many, perhaps most, men are born and grow up and die, and never know that they have any souls; and finally there arise, as there have arisen through all the ages, just such philosophers as Sir William Hamilton and Mr. Spencer, who in substance deny that men are spiritual persons at all, who say that the highest knowledge is a generalization in the Understanding, a form of a knowledge common to man and the brutes, and that "the highest achievements of science are resolvable into mental relations of coexistence and sequence, so coördinated as exactly to tally with certain relations of coexistence and sequence that occur externally."
— from Know the Truth: A Critique on the Hamiltonian Theory of Limitation Including Some Strictures Upon the Theories of Rev. Henry L. Mansel and Mr. Herbert Spencer by Jesse Henry Jones

A doctor, and not know such trifles!
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

enough Digonedd, n. abundance Digoni, v. to suffice, to satisfy Digoniant, n. prevalency Digonoi, a. sufficient; sated Digonoldeb, n. abundance Digonoli, v. to satiate Digor, n. habit; passion Digorffori, v. to disembody Digosp, a. unpunished Digost, a. without expense Digraff, a. not keen Digraid, a. impassionate Digrain, n. error: a wandering Digrawn, a. unaccumulated Digred, a. unbelieving, infidel Digreulon, a. not cruel Digribddail, a. without extortion Digrif, a. amusing, jocose Digrifâu, v. to amuse, to please Digrifedd, n. pleasantry Digrifwch, n. amusement Digrintach, a. not miserly Digroen, a. having no skin Digroniad, a. unbounded Digrybwyll, a. not alluded to Digrych, a. unwrinkled Digryn, a. without trembling Digryno, a. incompact, untidy Digu, a. not affectionate Digudd, a. unconcealed Digus, a. displeasing Digwl, a. blameless, faultless Digwsg, a. sleepless Digwydd, a. without lapse Digydwybod, a. unconscionable Digyfaill, a. friendless Digyfanedd, a. not domestic Digyfarwydd, a uninformed Digyfieuo, v. to disjoin Digyfludd, a. unimpeded Digyfnerth, a. helpless Digyfnewid, a. unchangeable Digyfoeth, a without wealth Digyfraid, wanting necessaries Digyfraith, a. lawless Digyfran, a. unparticipated Digyfrif, a. of no account Digyfrwng, a. not intervening Digyfrwydd, a. unpropitious Digyfwng, a. close, immediate Digyfyng, a. unconfined Digyffelyb, a. dissimilar, unparallelled Digyffro, a. undisturbed Digyngor, a. void of council Digyngwedd, a. unassimilating Digyngyd, a. inconsiderate Digymal, a. jointless Digymeriad, a. of no estimation Digymhar, a. matchless Digymhell, a. unconstrained Digymhorth, a. helpless Digymhwyll, a. irrational Digymwl, a. cloudless Digymysg, a. uncompounded Digynaliaeth, a. without support or maintenance Digynedd, a. without virtue Digynhen, a. not discordant Digynhwrf, a. unagitated Digyniwair
— from A Pocket Dictionary: Welsh-English by William Richards

That I shall be the laughingstock of all Moscow, that everyone will say that you, drunk and not knowing what you were about, challenged a man you are jealous of without cause.”
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

Vasari tells us that he carved all day and drew all night, keeping his feet warm through the long winter evenings by covering them up in a basketful of carpenter shavings.
— from The Century of Columbus by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh

Alles in uns schweige Und sich innig vor ihm beuge; Wer ihn kennt, wer ihn nennt, Schlagt die Augen nieder, Kommt, ergebt euch wieder.
— from The Life and Letters of Elizabeth Prentiss by George Lewis Prentiss

Turns of singing and dancing interested him less than plays where there was a definite and necessarily keenly personal story.
— from Secret Bread by F. Tennyson (Fryniwyd Tennyson) Jesse

She has beauty with- out pride, elegance without affectation, and innocence without dissimulation; and not knowing how long this train of perfections will last, we would advise our reader to make hay whilst the sun shines.
— from Harris's List of Covent Garden Ladies or Man of Pleasure's Kalendar for the Year, 1788 by Anonymous

One of the most striking proofs that we possess of the rapid growth and expansion of the Greek mind, is found in the rise of the Drama, a new kind of poetical composition, which united the leading features of every species before cultivated, in a new whole "breathing a rhetorical, dialectical, and ethical spirit" --a branch of literature that peculiarly characterized the era of Athenian greatness.
— from Mosaics of Grecian History by Robert Pierpont Wilson

Being pressed to supply Ayr and the neighbouring towns with a more direct communication than they then enjoyed, and finding that the railway company to be dealt with, though having suitable trains actually running, refused to carry the mails, except at prices far beyond what the correspondence would justify, I devised a new kind of notice, which the solicitor to the Post Office regarded as strictly legal, requiring the company to carry the mails by the existing trains, but leaving them at liberty to alter or withdraw these trains altogether on giving us fifteen days’ notice.
— from The Life of Sir Rowland Hill and the History of Penny Postage, Vol. 2 (of 2) by Hill, Rowland, Sir

“Take the baby out of the room,” commanded the doctor; “and now, Kitty, girl, listen to me.
— from Marjorie in Command by Carolyn Wells

For a whole day and night, Kansas City, Missouri, was alive with Suffrage enthusiasm; great crowds attended our advent everywhere.
— from The Story of the Woman's Party by Inez Haynes Gillmore

Surely it was no longer early in the evening, and why did Anthony not keep his word and come home at the time he had promised?
— from The Camp Fire Girls in After Years by Margaret Vandercook