And now, since last Monday, there has suddenly sprung up a barrier between us, and I find that there is something in her life and in her thought of which I know as little as if she were the woman who brushes by me in the street.
— from The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

I remember her always as kind and loving, and, indeed, so was my father; but my mother—well, I cannot seem to get beyond that—she was my mother.
— from She Blows! And Sparm at That! by William John Hopkins

Bill Hicks said that it was owing to a ha'penny he couldn't account for; but Walter Jones, whose family was always ill, and thought 'e knew a lot about it, said that 'e knew wot it was, but 'e couldn't remember the name of it, and that when we got to London and Thomas saw a doctor, we should see as 'ow 'e was right.
— from Bill's Paper Chase Lady of the Barge and Others, Part 3. by W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs

"I know a little about it," said Jack, "and shall be glad to give you all the advice I can.
— from Phaeton Rogers: A Novel of Boy Life by Rossiter Johnson

But I don’t like his wanting me to learn so much about nouns, and pronouns, and history—and then he gives me such dull books to read, all about astrology, and chronology, and physiology, and conchology, and etymology, and how many miles the moon’s off—just as if one wanted to know, as long as it shines.
— from A Rough Diamond: A Comic Drama in One Act by John Baldwin Buckstone

The Spaniards were rebels because they refused to recognize the forced abdication of their young King; and the rulers of Sweden, Naples and Portugal, were Kings as long as it suited Napoleon to tolerate them, and no longer.
— from The Life of Napoleon I (Complete) by J. Holland (John Holland) Rose

This hypothetical ether is, for want of a better theory of causes, as supreme in philosophy to-day as the alkahest of the talented old alchemist Van Helmont was in former times, a universal spirit that exists in conception, and yet does not exist in perception, and of which modern science knows as little as its speculative promulgator, Aristotle, did.
— from Etidorhpa; or, The End of Earth. The Strange History of a Mysterious Being and the Account of a Remarkable Journey by John Uri Lloyd

Yea, I was a great king at last as I sat there, Peace spread far about me, and the love of all people To my palace gates wafted by each wind of the heavens.
— from Poems By The Way & Love Is Enough by William Morris

"Yes, mamma, I know," answered Lily, "and it serves me quite right; but it does make me feel very badly to know that all the other children can feel that the little orphans are having some good of their kindness, and they do not have one bit of mine."
— from Lily Norris' Enemy by Joanna H. (Joanna Hooe) Mathews

"Patience seems to know a lot about it," said Paul.
— from Jimmy Quixote: A Novel by Tom Gallon