"Everybody in Merryvale has heard of your good fortune, Hertha," he said, "and I reckon the earth won't be a day older before everybody knows it up and down the river.
— from The Shadow by Mary White Ovington

A table of results is prepared, showing the number of divisions occupied by each known volume of mercury introduced.
— from The Methods of Glass Blowing and of Working Silica in the Oxy-Gas Flame For the use of chemical and physical students by W. A. (William Ashwell) Shenstone

We climbed and crawled and dragged ourselves by elbows, knees, shoulders, hands and feet through ancient and modern “stopes,” by slippery ladders, crude stairways, or slimy ropes, in an eternal darkness made barely visible by our torches.
— from Vagabonding down the Andes Being the Narrative of a Journey, Chiefly Afoot, from Panama to Buenos Aires by Harry Alverson Franck

Her whole character, and, in particular, the readiness to imitate, upon which I do not dwell only because everybody knows that kind of thing, was that of one who had inherited family instincts, whose ancestors had lived in families for immemorial generations.
— from Anecdotes of Big Cats and Other Beasts by David Alec Wilson

Thus perished one of the noblest of Arthur's knights, and thus was done one of the most villanous deeds of blood ever known in those days of chivalrous war.
— from Historic Tales: The Romance of Reality. Vol. 14 (of 15), King Arthur (2) by Malory, Thomas, Sir