Bodvar's brother was Sigurd, father of Eirik Bjodaskalle, whose daughter Astrid was King Olaf's mother.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

The magic is always performed in direct association with Kula expeditions.
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski

I was in a kind of fright beyond my grief, and I caught hold of her dress and was kneeling to her.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

Besides these things the Egyptians have found out also to what god each month and each day belongs, and what fortunes a man will meet with who is born on any particular day, and how he will die, and what kind of a man he will be: and these inventions were taken up by those of the Hellenes who occupied themselves about poesy.
— from An Account of Egypt by Herodotus

I never evaded the morning salute, which Paulina would slip when she could; nor was a certain little manner of still disdain a weapon known in my armoury of defence; whereas, Paulina always kept it clear, fine, and bright, and any rough German sally called forth at once its steelly glisten.
— from Villette by Charlotte Brontë

He has with him as travelling-companion my foster-brother Dost Akbar, who knows his secret.
— from The Sign of the Four by Arthur Conan Doyle

When we read a history of the Anglo-Saxons, for instance, we learn that they were sea rovers, pirates, explorers, great eaters and drinkers; and we know something of their hovels and habits, and the lands which they harried and plundered.
— from English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English-Speaking World by William J. (William Joseph) Long

He’ll make the Governor’s Chair before he dies, and, who knows?
— from Martin Eden by Jack London

[131] The honour was, in fact, rather a cheap one in those days, and who knows whether a man who had done such signal service to his country did not look forward to a peerage?
— from The Wits and Beaux of Society. Volume 1 by Philip Wharton

Everybody wanted to stay, and everybody tried to be quite firm; but as no one's firmness but mine was based on inclination, the result was that Sophie and I were "remainder," and Mary Leighton, Charlotte, and Henrietta drove away with Kilian quite jauntily, at half-past seven o'clock.
— from Richard Vandermarck: A Novel by Miriam Coles Harris

Some philosophers think that sensibility is a universal quality of matter: in this case, it would be useless to seek from whence this property is derived, as we know it by its effects.
— from The System of Nature, or, the Laws of the Moral and Physical World. Volume 1 by Holbach, Paul Henri Thiry, baron d'

So it was with the old squire, who watched Hester's cheek becoming paler day by day, and who knew by her silence that the strong hopes which in his presence had been almost convictions were gradually giving way to a new despair.
— from John Caldigate by Anthony Trollope

‘It wur that dog as welly killed Moses Fletcher, wurnd it?’
— from Lancashire Idylls (1898) by Marshall Mather

In this Third Degree, as we know by the revelations of Christian Science, mortal mind disappears.
— from The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg, and Other Stories by Mark Twain

Though not mine, Nitetis is a king’s daughter and will know how to win the love of her husband.”
— from An Egyptian Princess — Complete by Georg Ebers

The men, like Benton, who still led the political thought of that day, and who knew every aspect of the country, realizing the peril that lay in countenancing sectionalism, could not give their support to a candidate who stood upon a sectional platform.
— from Famous American Belles of the Nineteenth Century by Virginia Tatnall Peacock