Walking, you know, Ben, in the moonlight with those earthquake hats.
— from Ulysses by James Joyce

How much she has given never can be known, but in the year 1879, for instance, one friend acknowledges the receipt of $50 to enable her to buy a dress and other articles so that she can attend the Washington co
— from The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Ida Husted Harper

Keimer, being in the street, look'd up and saw me, call'd out to me in a loud voice and angry tone to mind my business, adding some reproachful words, that nettled me the more for their publicity, all the neighbours who were looking out on the same occasion being witnesses how I was treated.
— from Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin

And all this bliss we have by Mercy and Grace: which manner of bliss we might never have had nor known but if that property of Goodness which is God had been contraried: whereby we have this bliss.
— from Revelations of Divine Love by of Norwich Julian

Miss Polehampton has been a great deal put out about it all, and has written a long letter to your papa, Janetta; and, indeed, it seems to me as if it would have been more becoming if you had kept to your own place and not tried to make friends with those above you——" "Who are those above her, I should like to know?" broke in the grey-haired surgeon with some heat.
— from A True Friend: A Novel by Adeline Sergeant

I’ll send them some kindness, but in the shape of a good bullet!”
— from The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne

The evidence has been destroyed in the fire, I know, but I think it desirable to err on the side of caution, nevertheless.
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

named Khor, (brightness,) is thus an inferior genius, who, with many other genii, bears a part in the functions of Mithra.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

How much of that Rome has been erased by modern Rome I do not know, but I think not so much as people pretend.
— from Roman Holidays, and Others by William Dean Howells

"Such doings," as a paper stated next day, "were never known before in this town in the annals of donkeys—four-legged or two-legged either."
— from On a Donkey's Hurricane Deck A Tempestous Voyage of Four Thousand and Ninety-Six Miles Across the American Continent on a Burro, in 340 Days and 2 Hours, Starting Without a Dollar and Earning My Way by R. Pitcher (Robert Pitcher) Woodward

But Elbel seemed to know by instinct the feeling by which Jack would be animated.
— from Samba: A Story of the Rubber Slaves of the Congo by Herbert Strang

the natives appear to know by instinct the direction of every spot they wish to reach; and many white men seem to possess the same faculty.
— from The Bushman — Life in a New Country by Edward Wilson Landor

Because of its intrinsic value, we tend to hold on to each element as we hear or see it, but are forced to relinquish it for the sake of the one that follows; only for a moment can we keep both in the conscious span; the recurrence and overcoming of the resulting tension, as we follow the succession through, creates the pulsation so characteristic of rhythm.
— from The Principles of Aesthetics by De Witt H. (De Witt Henry) Parker

Who that gentleman upstairs is, I do not seek to know, but I tell you this, Mr. Commendone, that, heretic or none, I go to-morrow morning to Father Lacy and give him a rose-angel to say masses for the soul of a good dead friend of mine.
— from House of Torment A Tale of the Remarkable Adventures of Mr. John Commendone, Gentleman to King Phillip II of Spain at the English Court by Guy Thorne

'I don't know, but I thought I would come and see you.'
— from Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 429 Volume 17, New Series, March 20, 1852 by Various

"Then, if I pursue the excellent common-sense tactics of the lesser sand-eel, which as you doubtless know buries itself tail upwards in the mud on hearing the baying of the eel-hounds and remains in that position till the danger is past, I shall be able to postpone an interview.
— from Piccadilly Jim by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse

But if the very nature of knowledge changes, at the time when the change occurs there will be no knowledge; and if the transition is always going on, there will always be no knowledge, and, according to this view, there will be no one to know and nothing to be known: but if that which knows and that which is known exists ever, and the beautiful and the good and every other thing also exist, then I do not think that they can resemble a process or flux, as we were just now supposing.
— from Cratylus by Plato