Though you knew it not, the unloved toil you faced so well went to the building of a nation.
— from Dick's Desertion: A Boy's Adventures in Canadian Forests A Tale of the Early Settlement of Ontario by Marjorie L. C. (Marjorie Lowry Christie) Pickthall

"The kitchen is next to us," he said, "but there is no one there now.
— from Barbarossa, and Other Tales by Paul Heyse

Sometimes, too, they had many doubts, Bertrand says, perhaps as to their reception at Chinon, perhaps even whether their mission might not expose them to the ridicule of their kind, if not to unknown dangers of magic and contact with the Evil One, should this wonderful girl turn out no inspired virgin but a pretender or sorceress.
— from Jeanne D'Arc: Her Life And Death by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

They know it not, the untravelled, till the world hath wisdom taught— 535 Of hempen twist his bridle, and feeble and faint his steed, And oft it fell, as stumbling it went o'er the flowery mead.
— from Parzival: A Knightly Epic (vol. 1 of 2) by Wolfram, von Eschenbach, active 12th century

It may be just the key I need to unlock this strange affair of the Green Door!”
— from Behind the Green Door by Mildred A. (Mildred Augustine) Wirt

Does the word God stand for what we know or for what we do not know? Is not this unthinkable God a guess, an inference?
— from The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Complete Contents Dresden Edition—Twelve Volumes by Robert Green Ingersoll

2: Because we know and name God from creatures, the names we attribute to God signify what belongs to material creatures, of which the knowledge is natural to us.
— from Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint

"I seem to lack the keen intelligence needed to understand what you are driving at, Henkel."
— from Dave Darrin's First Year at Annapolis Two Plebe Midshipmen at the United States Naval Academy by H. Irving (Harrie Irving) Hancock

their haughty Conquerors Possess'd of every Fort, and Lake, and Pass, Big with their Victories so often gain'd; On us they look with deep Contempt and Scorn, Are false, deceitful, knavish, insolent; Nay, think us conquered, and our Country theirs, Without a Purchase, or ev'n asking for it.
— from Ponteach The Savages of America by Robert Rogers

A moment later she observed meditatively, "you know, I never take up an American novel that I don't read some description of food!"
— from Memoirs of an American Prima Donna by Clara Louise Kellogg