“Ralph knows a lot more about recent history than this fellow does.
— from Black Treasure Sandy Steele Adventures #1 by Robert Leckie

The case would be altogether different, if the daughter consents of herself to her urgent suitor, without consulting her parents, or those who are in their place; for she cannot from judgement, knowledge, and love, make a right estimate of the matter which so deeply concerns her future welfare: she cannot from judgement , because she is as yet in ignorance as to conjugial life, and not in a state of comparing reasons, and discovering the morals of men from their particular tempers; nor from knowledge , because she knows few things beyond the domestic concerns of her parents and of some of her companions; and is unqualified to examine into such things as relate to the family and property of her suitor: nor from love , because with daughters in their first marriageable age, and also afterwards, this is led by the concupiscences originating in the senses, and not as yet by the desires originating in a refined mind.
— from The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love To Which is Added The Pleasures of Insanity Pertaining To Scortatory Love by Emanuel Swedenborg

He reached Miami ahead of schedule and had a diner-breakfast big enough to kill a lesser man, a real fatkins affair.
— from Makers by Cory Doctorow

avoid Fasil, till I knew a little more about Ras Michael and the king.
— from Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile, Volume 4 (of 5) In the years 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772 and 1773 by James Bruce

One of her pupils, Margaret King, afterwards Lady Mountcashel, always retained the warmest regard for Mary Wollstonecraft.
— from The Love Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft to Gilbert Imlay by Mary Wollstonecraft

"I think he knows a lot more about religion than a good many ministers I've heard," replied Bobbie.
— from Traffic in Souls: A Novel of Crime and Its Cure by Eustace Hale Ball

His wife looked and marveled, but recollected herself in time to say after only a minute's hesitation: "I know a little more about rough characters than I once did.
— from Brooke's Daughter: A Novel by Adeline Sergeant

The Kassite and Lullume mountaineers also received attention, and were taught to respect the power of the new monarch.
— from Myths of Babylonia and Assyria by Donald A. (Donald Alexander) Mackenzie

I wish I knew a little more about real people.”
— from The Unspeakable Perk by Samuel Hopkins Adams

The blind missionary wanted to know about Louie Ming, and Rosella told the missionary all about her.
— from Stories Worth Rereading by Various