Walay makaayad áning prisyung kubus, No one can have second thoughts about buying it at this low price.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

In the olden days, knighthood, when it was bestowed, was a religious ceremony, and a knight not only considered himself a servant of the king, but also a servant of God.
— from Boy Scouts Handbook The First Edition, 1911 by Boy Scouts of America

‘Well, I have heard say that there was a woman in the Monti, 9 and not so long ago either, who was always finding money about the house, and that too, in places where she knew no one could have put it.
— from Roman Legends: A collection of the fables and folk-lore of Rome by Rachel Harriette Busk

This would, she knew, not only cost her her place, but would make her, in a way, responsible for the entire affair.
— from The Blue Lights: A Detective Story by Frederic Arnold Kummer

She never sat on father's knee now, or called him a "ridiculous boy," or untied his necktie, or rumpled his hair.
— from Children of the Dear Cotswolds by L. Allen (Lizzie Allen) Harker

At New York Spaceport, however, Mason Northrop and Jack Kinnison not only could hurry, but did.
— from First Lensman by E. E. (Edward Elmer) Smith

She was, however, vivacious, versatile, and so lively as to seem at times to take too light a view of everything; but, when better known, no one could help admiring the rare faculty with which heaven enabled her to bear cheerfully the heavy trials of life, and feeling that her gayety was courage in its most attractive aspect.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 20, October 1874‐March 1875 by Various

Hands that walk, sleeping hands, and hands that are awaking; criminal hands, tainted with hereditary disease; and hands that are tired and will do no more, and have lain down in some corner like sick animals that know no one can help them.
— from Auguste Rodin by Rainer Maria Rilke

As Charlevoix says, `to see them on their knees, no one could have imagined which one it was who asked the other's grace.'
— from A Vanished Arcadia: Being Some Account of the Jesuits in Paraguay 1607-1767 by R. B. (Robert Bontine) Cunninghame Graham

She knew not, of course, how high she had attained by long and painful climbing, but from her present consideration and eminence she must be considerably advanced on her pilgrimage.
— from The Curse of Koshiu: A Chronicle of Old Japan by Lewis Wingfield

To be in the mind or the understanding simply means "to be understood" or to be known; no one can have an idea without being conscious of it.
— from History of Modern Philosophy From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time by Richard Falckenberg