I Just as there is no known society without a religion, so there exist none, howsoever crudely organized they may be, where we do not find a whole system of collective representations concerning the soul, its origin and its destiny.
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim

+ drēog I. n. keeping ( shoes ) in good condition , Æ: usefulness ?
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

Wà kuy nawung ihárung níya kay sad-an ku, I can’t bring myself to face him because I’m guilty.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Inasin nga karni, Salted meat.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Here will I not keep silence of thy hard death-doom and thine excellent deeds (if in any wise things wrought in the old time may win belief), nor of thyself, O fitly remembered!
— from The Aeneid of Virgil by Virgil

‘And I never know such a fainthearted creature,’ added the woman; ‘nor one so careful of hisseln.
— from Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

Dílì makabastar (ikabastar) nang kwartáha sa ákung kinahanglanun, That money is not enough for my needs.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

She always is afraid of spoiling the moral: I never knew such a conscientious person in my life.
— from A True Friend: A Novel by Adeline Sergeant

I now know she did.
— from Punch, Or the London Charivari, Volume 107, December 8th, 1894 by Various

"Your visit is a little unexpected, is it not, Karl?" she remarked.
— from The Double Traitor by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim

For Drew prefaced the bit of a story with this: “I never knew Symonds Dodd to do anything toward squaring a wrong he had committed except when he gave Kate Kilgour a fine position in his office.
— from The Landloper: The Romance of a Man on Foot by Holman Day

Now, while thy rounded cheek is fresh and fair, While beauty lingers, laughing, in thine eyes, Ere thy young heart shall meet the stranger, "Care," Or thy blithe soul become the home of sighs, Were it not kindness should I give thee rest By plunging this sharp dagger in thy breast?
— from Maurine and Other Poems by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

"How we're to do it, nobody knows," said Helen gloomily, walking along beside Ruth after the meeting.
— from Ruth Fielding in Moving Pictures; Or, Helping the Dormitory Fund by Alice B. Emerson

For I am told that Mr. Martindale is so tired of Brigland, that he is determined never to live here any more; and I don't wonder at it, I am sure, for I never knew such a censorious, tattling, gossiping set of people any where as there is in Brigland.
— from Rank and Talent; A Novel, Vol. 2 (of 3) by William Pitt Scargill

'Dear me, dear me; and to think I never knew,' said her father.
— from Poppy's Presents by Walton, O. F., Mrs.

I never knew such a fellow to blub, did you, Padger?”
— from The Fifth Form at Saint Dominic's: A School Story by Talbot Baines Reed