The old Prussians acknowledged as their supreme lord a ruler who governed them in the name of the gods, and was known as “God’s Mouth.”
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

The superiority of her charms was felt and acknowledged by her companions, but without envy, for it was surpassed by the unassuming gentleness and winning kindness of her manners.
— from The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon by Washington Irving

"I have not the slightest anxiety about him: that sort of people go ahead without knowing even what they are about.
— from A Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne

"But the idea of going away without kissing the barin's hand, foolish one!" cried Arina; whereupon, in lieu of offering the girl his hand, Nikolai Petrovitch felt so embarrassed that in the end he himself kissed her bent head at the spot where the hair lay parted.
— from Fathers and Sons by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

Now the seven of the Persians, when they had resolved forthwith to lay hands upon the Magians and not to delay, made prayer to the gods and went, knowing nothing of that which had been done with regard to Prexaspes: and as they were going and were in the middle of their course, they heard that which had happened about Prexaspes.
— from The History of Herodotus — Volume 1 by Herodotus

There certain thieves formed a design once to carry away the wealth of Sardanapallos son of Ninos, the king, which wealth was very great and was kept in treasure-houses under the earth.
— from The History of Herodotus — Volume 1 by Herodotus

The poor girl was keeping that student's letter as a precious treasure, and had run to fetch it, her only treasure, because she did not want me to go away without knowing that she, too, was honestly and genuinely loved; that she, too, was addressed respectfully.
— from White Nights and Other Stories The Novels of Fyodor Dostoevsky, Volume X by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

But the great audience will know nothing of the aches and pains, the weariness and suffering.
— from Letters of Peregrine Pickle by George P. (George Putnam) Upton

And then Talbot's—yet, I will not speak of that, for you are very unlike the present generation; and who knows but you may have some gratitude, some affection, some natural feeling in you?
— from The Disowned — Volume 05 by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

The weather was so cold and the roads so bad that we thought Company E was safely immune from an attack on its camp at Coldwater, yet Forrest was making a raid within the enemy’s lines, where he was to stay twenty-one days, defeat superior forces in five considerable battles, and day and night display such energy and military genius as would keep him out of the hands of the enemy, who were moving from many directions to entrap him.
— from Notes of a Private by John Milton Hubbard

The advent of modified uniformitarian principles all but banished the word catastrophe from science, and marked the birth of Geology as we know it now.
— from Natural Law in the Spiritual World by Henry Drummond

As for the treatment I had received, I was now to a certain degree hardened to it, and my feelings certainly were not so acute as when, the first time, I had received a lesson of what I might expect through life from the heartlessness and selfishness of the world; but in the present case there was a difficulty which did not exist in the former—I was going away without knowing where I was to go.
— from Valerie by Frederick Marryat

Brigham Young no longer seems to the American public a religious mountebank, only one grade removed from the man Orr, who claimed to be the veritable Angel Gabriel, and was killed in a popular commotion which he had himself excited in Dutch Guiana.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 17, March, 1859 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various