From which I am inclined to think that the sage magician who is my friend, and watches over my interests (for of necessity there is and must be one, or else I should not be a right knight-errant), that this same, I say, must have helped thee to travel without thy knowledge; for some of these sages will catch up a knight-errant sleeping in his bed, and without his knowing how or in what way it happened, he wakes up the next day more than a thousand leagues away from the place where he went to sleep.
— from The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Complete by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

The concept will, on the other hand, is of all possible concepts the only one which has its source not in the phenomenal, not in the mere idea of perception, but comes from within, and proceeds from the most immediate consciousness of each of us, in which each of us knows his own individuality, according to its nature, immediately, apart from all form, even that of subject and object, and which at the same time is this individuality, for here the subject and the object of knowledge are one.
— from The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer

Andrea extended his hand; Bertuccio kept his own in his pocket, and merely jingled a few pieces of money.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

In struggles for political emancipation, everybody knows how often its champions are bought off by bribes, or daunted [Pg 20] by terrors.
— from The Subjection of Women by John Stuart Mill

"Is it possible you don't know, Harriet?" "Oh, I go about so little; and I am not fond of gossip; I really never hear any.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

She is a very headstrong foolish girl, and does not know her own interest; but I will make her know it."
— from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Indeed, she had quite a long argument with the Lory, who at last turned sulky, and would only say, "I am older than you, and must know better;" and this Alice would not allow without knowing how old it was, and, as the Lory positively refused to tell its age, there was no more to be said.
— from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. With a Proem by Austin Dobson by Lewis Carroll

They fastened a thread to the shrine of the goddess, and kept hold of it so as still to be under her protection.
— from Plutarch's Lives, Volume 1 (of 4) by Plutarch

Either he would require to be expelled from the room by gendarmes, or his friends would have to kick him out into the street.
— from Dead Souls by Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol

CO. (Mildred Roberts) Story of Ann Gudgel (age unknown): "I doesn't know how old I am, but I was a little girl when dat man Lincum freed us niggahs.
— from Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Kentucky Narratives by United States. Work Projects Administration

What I have suffered I cannot describe; but I am now with you again, and your kindness has obliterated it all from my memory.
— from Confessions of a Thug by Meadows Taylor

" The Southern members would, perhaps, have been startled by such a proposition as this, had he not immediately added that "he did not intend to suggest a measure of this kind; he only instanced these particulars to show that Congress certainly had a right to intermeddle in the business."
— from James Madison by Sydney Howard Gay

But justice is interverted when Those engines of the law, Instead of pinching vicious men, Keep honest ones in awe. · · · Tell them the men that placed him there Are friends unto the times; But at a loss to find his guilt, And can't commit his crimes.
— from Bygone Punishments by William Andrews

Once we had a long talk about the old battles, and, speaking of a common friend who had been killed, he observed, 'I do think it dreadful, his being killed like that—killed outright.'
— from The Leicestershires beyond Baghdad by Edward John Thompson

Further to keep his officials in check he arranged that the treasurer should be one of the king’s slaves while the actual paymaster was a native of the particular locality.
— from History of Gujarát Gazetteer of the Bombay Presidency, Volume I, Part I. by James M. Campbell

The Apostle with the goblet is said to be Paul Volkamer (the founder) and he with the small cap Adam Krafft himself, or, it may be, Veit Stoss, to whom the sculptures, on the strength of the monogram V.S. on them, are now usually attributed.
— from The Story of Nuremberg by Cecil Headlam

Even the Injuns don’t keer to meddle with the varmint, unless a dozen or two of ’em, well mounted an’ armed, can ketch him out in clar open ground; an’ even then they have to handle themselves round purty lively, for if the bar onct gets his claws on a hoss he has to go under.
— from Frank in the Woods by Harry Castlemon

Why had Ramsey kept Henley occupied in so strange a manner, talking to a nonentity, a stand-in, a double who could never bargain and come to terms unless Ramsey ordered him to do so?
— from Space Station 1 by Frank Belknap Long