She was in such an excited state that she seemed to have lost her grip of what German she knew, and mixed it all up with some other language which I did not know at all.
— from Dracula by Bram Stoker

Kukushkin asked me in a whisper.
— from The Lady with the Dog and Other Stories by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Knowledge about man, information as to his past, familiarity with his documented records of literature, may be as technical a possession as the accumulation of physical details.
— from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey

It reached below her knee and made itself almost a garment for her.
— from The Gift of the Magi by O. Henry

To discern causes is to turn vision into knowledge and motion into action.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

At about twenty-six years of age he killed a man in a quarrel and fled the country.
— from Roughing It by Mark Twain

As ants work by inherited instincts and by inherited tools or weapons, and not by acquired knowledge and manufactured instruments, a perfect division of labour could be effected with them only by the workers being sterile; for had they been fertile, they would have intercrossed, and their instincts and structure would have become blended.
— from On the Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life by Charles Darwin

For to kill a man in a fair fight, is to prove that you are superior to him in strength or skill; and to justify the deed, you must assume that the right of the stronger is really a right .
— from The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer: the Wisdom of Life by Arthur Schopenhauer

Presently, when things began to look dismal again, a desperado killed a man in a saloon and joy returned once more.
— from Roughing It by Mark Twain

Any effort to recall the names of all these friends would lead to the unavoidable omission of some; nevertheless, I must specially mention Mr. H. Takamine, Director of the Tokio Normal School; Dr. Seiken Takenaka; Mr. Tsunejiro Miyaoka; Mr. S. Tejima, Director of the Tokio Educational Museum; Professors Toyama, Yatabe, Kikuchi, Mitsukuri, Sasaki, and Kozima, and Mr. Ishikawa and others, of the University of Tokio; Mr. Isawa and Mr. Kodzu, Mr. Fukuzawa, the distinguished teacher and author; Mr. Kashiwagi, Mr. Kohitsu, and Mr. Masuda.
— from Japanese Homes and Their Surroundings by Edward Sylvester Morse

Mr. Rowe said, that before he took charge of the white school, he was the teacher of one of the free schools for blacks, and he testified that the latter has just as much capacity for acquiring any kind of knowledge, as much inquisitiveness, and ingenuity, as the former.
— from The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 2 of 4 by American Anti-Slavery Society

Ven I promish anytink I do it shquare, dot'sh a kin' a man I am!"
— from Yekl: A Tale of the New York Ghetto by Abraham Cahan

"I have just killed a man in an omnibus!"
— from The Nabob, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Alphonse Daudet

In their original directives there had been a provision made for killing a murderer, if all other means failed.
— from Watchbird by Robert Sheckley

When so employed they are difficult of approach, always taking a position at a distance from cover of any kind, and marching in a single and extended rank, flanked by a watch goose at each extremity; which, while all the others are busily feeding, and advancing with their heads down among the herbage, moves erect, keeping pace with his comrades,—his eyes and nose in a position so as to give him the earliest intelligence of the presence of an enemy, though at a great distance; and the moment such is perceived, it is communicated to the whole company by certain tones used for alarm; and immediately is responded to by a halt, and the lifting of heads; and an instant flight, or a deliberate return to feeding, takes place, according as the nature of the danger, after the examination, may be considered.”
— from American Scenery, Vol. 1 (of 2) or, Land, lake, and river illustrations of transatlantic nature by Nathaniel Parker Willis

Then word came to him from another city that his only brother had killed a man in a drunken brawl, and then taken his own life, leaving nothing but the memory of a wild career and a heavy debt.
— from In League with Israel: A Tale of the Chattanooga Conference by Annie F. (Annie Fellows) Johnston

'And there's Foxy in a grand new kennel, and me in a seat in chapel, and a bush o' laylac give me for myself, and a garden and a root o' virgin's pride.'
— from Gone to Earth by Mary Gladys Meredith Webb

The Spaniard could not doubt that Desmond had many tributary knights, and much influence among the wild Irish; but he did not form a high
— from Ireland under the Tudors, with a Succinct Account of the Earlier History. Vol. 1 (of 3) by Richard Bagwell