Besides, he doesn’t know you; like his mates he is ready to obey our orders knowing nothing of our plan.”
— from Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas

A and B C, E, G, K, L, N, or P 7 A and C I, J, K, or O 4 A and D M, N, or J 3 A and F J, K, L, or P 4 A and G H, J, K, N, O, or P 6 A and H K, L, N, or O 4 A and O K or L 2 B and C N 1 B and E F, H, K, or L 4 B and F G, J, N, or O 4 B and G K, L, or N 3 B and H J or N 2 B and J K or L 2 F and G J 1 47
— from Amusements in Mathematics by Henry Ernest Dudeney

The postwar studies of [Pg 297] RAND Corporation have in part been released in unclassified form and add to our knowledge not only of propaganda but of mankind.
— from Psychological Warfare by Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger

It seems very remarkable to me, and of great honour to the Dutch, that those of them that did go on shore to Gillingham, though they went in fear of their lives, and were some of them killed; and, notwithstanding their provocation at Schelling, yet killed none of our people nor plundered their houses, but did take some things of easy carriage, and left the rest, and not a house burned; and, which is to our eternal disgrace, that what my Lord Douglas’s men, who come after them, found there, they plundered and took all away; and the watermen that carried us did further tell us, that our own soldiers are far more terrible to those people of the country-towns than the Dutch themselves.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

They kill no one on purpose to be eaten.
— from Stories of the Gorilla Country, Narrated for Young People by Paul B. (Paul Belloni) Du Chaillu

As the stage driver knew nothing of our plan, the probability was that he would pass the next office long before I could arrive and examine the mail bag.
— from Ten Years Among the Mail Bags Or, Notes from the Diary of a Special Agent of the Post-Office Department by James Holbrook

That philosophy of so-called pure, but properly empty thinking, separated and abstracted from actual reality, without end and without beginning, without ground as without aim, knows nothing of our postulate of life, in the full extent and sense of this word, so far as any thing is full and complete for man.
— from The philosophy of life, and philosophy of language, in a course of lectures by Friedrich von Schlegel

Those who come to us now are humble, and know nothing of our past world.
— from Glories of Spain by Charles W. (Charles William) Wood

for she knows nothing of our proposed drowning scrape.
— from Mysteries of Paris — Volume 02 by Eugène Sue

As it was very dark, and we knew nothing of our position, we could only guess how to get off again, and had there been a little more wind we might have been knocked to pieces.
— from The Malay Archipelago, Volume 2 The Land of the Orang-utan and the Bird of Paradise; A Narrative of Travel, with Studies of Man and Nature by Alfred Russel Wallace

If we had the yellow fever, we should prefer a man who had never treated any cases but cases of yellow fever to a man who had walked the hospitals of London and Paris for years, but who knew nothing of our particular disease.
— from Critical, Historical, and Miscellaneous Essays; Vol. 2 With a Memoir and Index by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron

He knows nothing of our plan, thinks this a mere spree, so please don't let it out!
— from The Letters of William James, Vol. 1 by William James