Mag. , 1st Dec. 1874, p. 389.) —— M. Khanikoff's Identifications of Names in Clavijo.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

The immigration of Norwegians into Clayton County had practically ceased by 1855, the chief reason for this probably being that the Germans came in very large numbers, particularly to Clayton County, during the early fifties and soon occupied all the best land.
— from A History of Norwegian Immigration to the United States From the Earliest Beginning down to the Year 1848 by George T. (George Tobias) Flom

whether I struck it or not I could not determine, but I am almost confident that I did; my gun is true and I had a steady rest by means of my espontoon, which I have found very serviceable to me in this way in the open plains.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

“According to your argument,” answered he, “all that I could be able to do would be to preserve myself from being mad while I endeavoured to cure the madness of others; for, if I speak with, I must repeat what I have said to you; and as for lying, whether a philosopher can do it or not I cannot tell: I am sure I cannot do it.
— from Utopia by More, Thomas, Saint

In its own nature, it cannot be considered as a color.
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

Whether Bartleby's eyes improved or not, I could not say.
— from Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall-Street by Herman Melville

Whether all other Nations of the world have in their severall languages a word that answereth to it, or not, I cannot tell; but I am sure they have not need of it:
— from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

Perceiving things to remain in the same state, and that he took no measures to procure himself a new secretary, I wrote to his brother, and, explaining to him my motives, begged he would obtain my dismission from his excellency, adding that whether I received it or not, I could not possibly remain with him.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

And at first the woman kept this secret, but afterwards she told her mother, whether in answer to her inquiry or not I cannot tell; and the mother told her husband Megacles.
— from The History of Herodotus — Volume 1 by Herodotus

‘Thus, whether the shadow is of my imagination or not, I can at all events point out the significant fact of an unforgotten grave.
— from Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad

He was not a nervous person,—you would have laughed at the idea of nerves in connection with Lite Avery.
— from Jean of the Lazy A by B. M. Bower

A. Because the nature of chaff wants a manifest quantity; seeing, therefore that of its own nature, it can easily be mingled, and consumed by that which it is annexed onto, it easily assumes the same nature, Page 463 and being put into hot things, it is easily hot, heats again, and keeps hot; and on the contrary, being made cold by the snow, and making the snow cold it keeps in its coldness.
— from The Works of Aristotle the Famous Philosopher Containing his Complete Masterpiece and Family Physician; his Experienced Midwife, his Book of Problems and his Remarks on Physiognomy by Aristotle

But since the art of creating a situation and of transforming it, by the introduction of natural incidents, constitutes genius; since the return to virtue of a woman, whose foot has already left some tracks upon the sweet and gilded sand which mark the pathway of vice, is the most difficult to bring about of all denouements, and since genius neither knows it nor teaches it, the practitioner in conjugal laws feels compelled to confess at the outset that he is incapable of reducing to definite principles a science which is as changeable as circumstances, as delusive as opportunity, and as indefinable as instinct.
— from Analytical Studies by Honoré de Balzac

Whether the horse falls back intentionally or not I cannot say.
— from Riding and Driving by Edward L. (Edward Lowell) Anderson

If ones name is celebrated all over the land, especially, and, if she is also beautiful, she is certain to draw large audiences.”
— from The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today by Charles Dudley Warner

Other examples may be seen in our notes in Chap.
— from A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, Vol. II. by Frederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener

A shrub has been discovered in our new Indian countries, from whose stem, when divided, there issues a copious vegetable spring of limpid and wholesome water.
— from The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 277, October 13, 1827 by Various

Can you tell where it is?" "Oh no, I cannot tell that.
— from The Key to Success by Russell H. Conwell

Gerard de Lairesse (born at Liége, in Flanders, 1640; died at Amsterdam 1711; famed not only for his pictures, but for his Treatise on the Art of Painting , composed after he had become blind) gives his name to a discussion on the artistic interpretation of nature, its change and advancement, and the deeper and truer vision which has displaced the mythological fancies of earlier painters and poets.
— from An Introduction to the Study of Browning by Arthur Symons

'Can you look earnestly and truthfully into your soul, and yet avow that you are the pure-hearted girl who roamed hand in hand with me only a year ago, in our native isle, content to have no ambition except that of living a humble life with me?
— from The Continental Monthly, Vol 6, No 5, November 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy by Various