The ashram members, knowing little of meditation practices, thought I should employ my whole time in organizational duties.
— from Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda

But they knew little of Mr. Percy who argued in this manner: he was neither to be lured nor intimidated from his right—all compromise, “all terms of commerce he disdained.”
— from Tales and Novels — Volume 07 Patronage [part 1] by Maria Edgeworth

He abode in the Scottish capital for about five years, during which he married, and then removed to London, where he again did duty of various kinds, lectured on Moral Philosophy, and, when the Grenville administration came in, received a fairly valuable Yorkshire living, that of Foston.
— from A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1780-1895) by George Saintsbury

I wrote it as a sort of a—well, I wrote it, you know, and I thought I might get a few hundred dollars out of it, same as I have out of those novels I used to write to keep lace on my petticoats.
— from Rose MacLeod by Alice Brown

The character Lo , here applied in the Chinese Tract to these people, is the same as that in the name of the Kwangsi Lo of M. Pauthier.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 2 by Rustichello of Pisa

He knows little of modern problems and in his theology is as orthodox as the rich men who control his church could desire.
— from From the Valley of the Missing by Grace Miller White

"It's killed lots of my people, or landed them in asylums—they're not talked about in the family, but I know it," he raved.
— from Captivity by Leonora Eyles