"We know it," said each little spirit in the flowers, "we know it, for have we not sprung from the eyes and lips of the murdered one.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

Afterwards, a maid, Who kept our holy faith among her kin In secret, entering, loosed and let him go.' To whom the monk: 'And I remember now That pelican on the casque: Sir Bors it was Who spake so low and sadly at our board; And mighty reverent at our grace was he: A square-set man and honest; and his eyes, An out-door sign of all the warmth within, Smiled with his lips—a smile beneath a cloud, But heaven had meant it for a sunny one: Ay, ay, Sir Bors, who else?
— from Idylls of the King by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron

Some hawks when in high condition will not break in to their quarry or even plume it before their master or some other person comes up, but, after killing it, stand expectant, looking round about them, and apparently in a sort of brown study, forgetful that such a thing as hunger exists.
— from The Art and Practice of Hawking by E. B. (Edward Blair) Michell

[37] After describing the life of the child during its earliest infancy, Bibbesworth goes on to tell how it is to be taught French as soon as it can speak, "that it may be better learned in speach and held up to scorn by none": Quaunt le enfes ad tel age Ke il set entendre langage, -13-
— from The Teaching and Cultivation of the French Language in England during Tudor and Stuart Times With an Introductory Chapter on the Preceding Period by K. Rebillon (Kathleen Rebillon) Lambley

I might learn A, and teach them that; but how do I know I shall ever learn B, myself?" He had left his question, as their talk went on, meaning to ask it again before they separated.
— from Real Folks by A. D. T. (Adeline Dutton Train) Whitney

One fact is worthy of notice, that while the omission of the dog is frequent in the brasses of ladies (e.g. in that of Lady Camoys, 1424, at Trotten, Sussex, and Joan, Lady Cobham, 1320, Cobham, Kent, and several others), the lion or dog, as the case may be, of the knight is scarcely ever left out; indeed, I have only been able to find two or three instances.
— from Notes and Queries, Number 224, February 11, 1854 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various

“You knew it!” said Ethel, looking pale, and gazing searchingly at him.
— from The Daisy Chain, or Aspirations by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge

See e.g. ante , Chapter V. and post , Chapter X. [227] Far into the Frankish period there were many heathen in northern Gaul and along the Rhine: Hauck, Kirchengeschichte Deutschlands , I. Kap. i. (second edition, Leipzig, 1898).
— from The Mediaeval Mind (Volume 1 of 2) A History of the Development of Thought and Emotion in the Middle Ages by Henry Osborn Taylor