It contains, moreover, conditions that make imperfect knowledge equivalent to complete ignorance, for in delivering sentence every “no” may each time mean, “We know that he has not done it” or again, “We know that it is not altogether certain that he has done it.”
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

Natásha left the room with her father and, as if finding it difficult to reach some decision, first followed him and then ran downstairs.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

Father Brown suddenly shouted with laughter, then stopped, and only struggled with it for instants during the rest of his speech.
— from The Innocence of Father Brown by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

It is one of the most voracious carnivorous birds known, and in India, from its devouring all sorts of carrion and noxious animals, is protected by law.
— from The New Gresham Encyclopedia. A to Amide Vol. 1 Part 1 by Various

With the utmost regard for the family, for instance (for I dine with them twice or thrice in the season), I cannot but own that the appearance of the Jenkinses in the park, in the large barouche with the grenadier-footmen, will surprise and mystify me to my dying day: for though I know the equipage is only jobbed, and all the Jenkins people are on board wages, yet those three men and the carriage must represent an expense of six hundred a year at the very least—and then there are the splendid dinners, the two boys at Eton, the prize governess and masters for the girls, the trip abroad, or to Eastbourne or Worthing, in the autumn, the annual ball with a supper from Gunter's (who, by the way, supplies most of the first-rate dinners which J. gives, as I know very well, having been invited to one of them to fill a vacant place, when I saw at once that these repasts are very superior to the common run of entertainments for which the humbler sort of J.'s acquaintances get cards)—who, I say, with the most good-natured feelings in the world, can help wondering how the Jenkinses make out matters?
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

It is so difficult—at least, I find it difficult—to understand people who speak the truth.”
— from A Room with a View by E. M. (Edward Morgan) Forster

In fact it does emerge under those conditions; and our Chapter IX will be mainly devoted to the proof of this fact.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

I sat down and wrote Mr. Greeley as follows: “DEAR SIR: I fear I do not entirely comprehend your kind note.
— from Roughing It by Mark Twain

This translation of course cannot reproduce all the many amusing forms of words, but it is useful, nevertheless, in showing more clearly the points of resemblance between the two works,—how far in form, ideas, details, and phrases Rabelais was permeated by Folengo.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

"I don't know, and in fact I don't care much.
— from The Haunted Mine by Harry Castlemon

In fact, I did this myself.
— from The Human Boy Again by Eden Phillpotts

Hence you discover the mistake of Sardanapalus, the wealthiest king of the Assyrians, who ordered it to be engraved on his tomb, I still have what in food I did exhaust; But what I left, though excellent, is lost.
— from Cicero's Tusculan Disputations Also, Treatises On The Nature Of The Gods, And On The Commonwealth by Marcus Tullius Cicero

And I found I did not.
— from The Angel of Pain by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson

How quickly she let it fall in despair over the cheerless prospect it presented to her sight!
— from Flora Lyndsay; or, Passages in an Eventful Life, Vol. I. by Susanna Moodie

I feel I don’t.
— from They and I by Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome

"How unfortunate and how much is it to be regretted then, that, while we are encompassed on all sides with avowed enemies, and insidious friends, internal dissensions should be harassing and tearing our vitals.
— from The Life of George Washington, Vol. 4 Commander in Chief of the American Forces During the War which Established the Independence of his Country and First President of the United States by John Marshall

Do you know what I'd meant to do with them—what in fact I did do with them?
— from The Divine Fire by May Sinclair