What is lacking in you is a strong sense for everything that is true and actual, you do not feel grieved and worried to find that science is in contradiction to your own sentiments, you are unacquainted with that intense desire for knowledge ruling over you like a law, you do not feel a duty in the need of being present with your own eyes wherever knowledge exists, and to let nothing that is “known” escape you.
— from The Dawn of Day by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Well, I kept expecting you, and so it was, you came!
— from Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
I had hidden that letter in a secret drawer in my desk, which the maker of it had shown me alone how to open, and he was dead before I knew Eugenie; yet that letter had fallen at my feet!
— from The International Magazine, Volume 4, No. 5, December 1851 by Various
I know everything your Majesty did, and even what you said.
— from History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 21 by Thomas Carlyle
“I know everything you're doing.”
— from In Red and Gold by Samuel Merwin
And then, as Simpson coughed tactfully behind his hand, and nudged her very obviously with his elbow, she added, as a sympathetic after-thought: "For, though a homey face may indeed be redeemed by its kindly expression, you cannot very well explain expression to the blind."
— from The Rosary by Florence L. (Florence Louisa) Barclay
"How do I know ef you doan't tell me where you be goin'?"
— from Mistress Nancy Molesworth: A Tale of Adventure by Joseph Hocking
‘I keep expecting you to speak; there’s a rick in my neck from watching you.
— from On the Eve: A Novel by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev
"There ought to be Olympic Games in Kingfield every year for all the schools in the town, and the Corporation ought to give the prizes," decided [119] Lesbia.
— from Loyal to the School by Angela Brazil
"Fine place, if your searchlight is keen enough," yawned Eph, gazing off into the darkness.
— from The Submarine Boys for the Flag Deeding Their Lives to Uncle Sam by Victor G. Durham
He said it kindly enough, yet tears rushed to her eyes as she looked at him.
— from Virginia by Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow
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