The variety of relations in which a man can stand to other people so as to obtain their confidence, that is, their good opinion, gives rise to a distinction between several kinds of honor, resting chiefly on the different bearings that meum may take to tuum ; or, again, on the performance of various pledges; or finally, on the relation of the sexes.
— from The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer: the Wisdom of Life by Arthur Schopenhauer

and I go to see my aunt Kite (my wife holding her resolution to go this morning as she resolved yesterday, and though there could not be much hurt in it, yet my own jealousy put a hundred things into my mind, which did much trouble me all day), whom we found in bed and not like to live as we think, and she told us her mind was that if she should die she should give all she had to her daughter, only L5 apiece to her second husband’s children, in case they live to come out of their apprenticeships, and that if her daughter should die before marrying, then L10 to be divided between Sarah Kite’s children and the rest as her own daughter shall dispose of it, and this I set down that I may be able to swear in case there should be occasion.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

With another man, Milady might have preserved some doubt; but she knew Athos.
— from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

For who would say that the craven fear of Dolon 239 was not something very different from the fear of Ajax, "who retreated with his face to the enemy and at a foot's pace, drawing back slowly knee after knee"?
— from Plutarch's Morals by Plutarch

How far she could receive communications is hard to determine, but she knew much that was going on around her.
— from The Story of My Life With her letters (1887-1901) and a supplementary account of her education, including passages from the reports and letters of her teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, by John Albert Macy by Helen Keller

Such ignorance is dispelled by saving knowledge, which, according to every philosophical school of India, consists in some special form of cognition.
— from A History of Sanskrit Literature by Arthur Anthony Macdonell

That will I not tell you, said the dwarf, but Sir Kay upon scorn named him Beaumains.
— from Le Morte d'Arthur: Volume 1 by Malory, Thomas, Sir

Whether it was that the pretty housemaid’s face looked prettier still, when it was raised towards Sam’s, or whether it was the accidental consequence of their being so near to each other, is matter of uncertainty to this day; but Sam kissed her.
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

Why had she not died before she knew that Menko had lied?
— from Prince Zilah — Volume 2 by Jules Claretie

In northern countries, if one would preserve the body of a man, it could be effectually done by simply keeping it constantly wrapped in ice.
— from The Day After Death; Or, Our Future Life According to Science (New Edition) by Louis Figuier

And this she did because she knew well that her mother, not she, was en rapport with Claude Heath.
— from The Way of Ambition by Robert Hichens

She could have said a good deal, but she knew the family, and she also knew the value of peace and quietness.
— from Crying for the Light; Or, Fifty Years Ago. Vol. 1 [of 3] by J. Ewing (James Ewing) Ritchie

I don't know whar it was, but dey been some kind of fighting all around dar, 'cause we camp in houses and cabins all de time and nobody live in any of 'em.
— from Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Oklahoma Narratives by United States. Work Projects Administration

It is plain that mankind—more properly here to be called the public—simply attach themselves to some opinion which they find current in society; while, however, the assumptions I have just described are, in their full measure, but a necessary consequence of their so doing, doubtless their so doing must itself have been dictated by some kind of anticipation of them, but this may, to any degree, have been vague, undetermined, partial, and imperfect.
— from Essays in Rationalism by Charles Robert Newman

They were just a trifle too far away for her to see them distinctly in the waning light of the dying day, but she knew that they were too large, they were out of proportion to the perfectly proportioned bodies, and they were oblate in form.
— from The Chessmen of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs

His name is familiar to all who know the history [50] of the early settlements along the Ohio, where such valiant pioneers as Daniel Boone, Simon Kenton and Colonel Harrod led the way into the wilderness, and lighted the torch of civilization.”
— from The Pioneer Boys of the Yellowstone; or, Lost in the Land of Wonders by St. George Rathborne