You went to Smerdyakov's to find out about Katerina Ivanovna, but you came away without finding out anything about her, you probably forgot—” “Ah, yes,” broke from Ivan and his face grew gloomy with uneasiness.
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Why? he would ask, making use of the sorites or syllogism of Zeno and Chrysippus, without knowing it belonged to them.—Why?
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

The next time Gurland came, he asked Faltin to read again the same chapter; and then he could no longer resist the striving of the spirit within his heart, and exclaimed, "I do not know what it is, I now find much in the Bible which I have not found before, although I know it by heart.
— from Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ by Aaron Bernstein

Thou dost me yet but little hurt; thou wilt anon, I know it by thy trembling; now Prosper works upon thee.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

Weak minds are always fond of resting in the ceremonials of duty, but morality offers much simpler motives; and it were to be wished that superficial moralists had said less respecting behaviour, and outward observances, for unless virtue, of any kind, is built on knowledge, it will only produce a kind of insipid decency.
— from A Vindication of the Rights of Woman With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects by Mary Wollstonecraft

If a young ass kicked me would you have me kick it back?"
— from Plutarch's Morals by Plutarch

So many times had his father described it that the old place was printed like a map on his mind, and was like a picture which kept its brightness even after the image of his boyhood's home in Australia had become faded and pale.
— from Afoot in England by W. H. (William Henry) Hudson

Fifteen kings in black garments, To reign for fifteen days.
— from Japanese Fairy Tales by Grace James

And what think you, Master Koerner, I bring to-day?" "Firstly, a crown, if rumor speaks truth," answered the sculptor; "secondly, some broken casques and battered harness.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 05, April 1867 to September 1867 by Various

I am not a very good cook, and my husband knew it before he married me.
— from My Queen: A Weekly Journal for Young Women. Issue 4, October 20, 1900 Marion Marlowe's Noble Work; or, The Tragedy at the Hospital by Lurana Sheldon

Jacobs, Louis Hampton Legion Jacobs, Mitchell Hampton Legion Jacobs, H. —— Killed in battle; buried in Jewish cemetery, Richmond, Virginia.
— from The American Jew as Patriot, Soldier and Citizen by Simon Wolf

This is because the soap and hot water together have washed out of the hair its natural oil, or grease, which kept it bright and soft; and this is why it is better not to wash the hair with soap and hot water oftener than once a week or so.
— from The Child's Day by Woods Hutchinson

As our knowledge increases by small steps, that something further on seems ever to be flying from our grasp by mighty strides, until we are forced to bow our heads and recognise that we are in the presence of, though still not in sight of, the Reality.
— from Science and the Infinite; or, Through a Window in the Blank Wall by Sydney T. (Sydney Turner) Klein

77 Flora Gray, White, with red spots; calved April 14th, 1854; bred by Hungerford & Brodie , Adams, N. Y.; owned by A. M. Tredwell , Madison, Morris County, N. J.: Sire, Kelburn, imported by Hungerford & Brodie, Dam, Mary Gray, imported.
— from Herd Record of the Association of Breeders of Thorough-Bred Neat Stock Short Horns, Ayrshires and Devons by Various

I asked them to remember the old Era in silence, and if they must drink, to drink to the transport-road and the transport-riders, and to all pioneers, and old hands going and gone, to the big native district and its dependencies, so rich in cattle and so rich in grain, to God's Eden of a country, and the people that He Himself had chosen to set there to dress it, and to keep it before our coming.
— from Cinderella in the South: Twenty-Five South African Tales by Arthur Shearly Cripps