[ Whether Josephus, from 2 Chronicles 35:25, here means the book of the Lamentations of Jeremiah, still extant, which chiefly belongs to the destruction of Jerusalem under Nebuchadnezzar, or to any other like melancholy poem now lost, but extant in the days of Josephus, belonging peculiarly to Josiah, cannot now be determined.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

Like all mediocre individuals, who chance to come into contact with the manœuvres of a great general, Julien understood nothing of the attack executed by the young Russian on the heart of the young English girl.
— from The Red and the Black: A Chronicle of 1830 by Stendhal

Cousin Maud of the Plum Jam understood nothing of the interview with Ann at Covent Street, a happening far outside the cage where the life of Cousin Maud fluttered and squeaked.
— from The Trial of Callista Blake by Edgar Pangborn

This precious epistle Madame Jacquières undertook not only to forward to the Duchess d'Angoulême, but also promised to procure the honour of a private interview for the bearer of the missive.
— from Celebrated Claimants from Perkin Warbeck to Arthur Orton by Anonymous

He jumped up, nearly overturned the conductor, as he dashed down the aisle, flung open the door of the car, and with the recklessness born of desperation and the fear of arrest, with only an instant's hesitation, jumped from the platform !
— from The Train Boy by Alger, Horatio, Jr.

The Black Jews say that the White Jews use none of these, and never have done so.
— from Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 2 of 7 by Edgar Thurston

Old Jamie understood nothing of this.
— from Pirate Gold by Frederic Jesup Stimson