The little way in grey city or green field that saw their sin is small; to find those who know nothing of what they have done they need go no further than a bird might fly between the twilight and the dawn; but for me the world is shrivelled to a handsbreadth, and everywhere I turn my name is written on the rocks in lead.
— from De Profundis by Oscar Wilde

no, no, he will be well paid for it, and I know no other Way they have to compound with him, but this of Bargain and Sale.
— from The History of the Devil, As Well Ancient as Modern: In Two Parts by Daniel Defoe

"No, but appearances are sadly against her, and we know nothing of what the husband thinks; even if he does believe her guiltless, he must naturally feel wounded at his wife's want of love and trust."
— from It May Be True, Vol. 3 (of 3) by Wood, Henry, Mrs.

The dog, with a brute recognition of the unsatisfactory nature of spiritual aspiration, descended to the care of his own affairs, and scratched for fleas which knew no other world than his hind-quarters.
— from The Moon Rock by Arthur J. (Arthur John) Rees

He ran to the kitchen, no one was there; he went into his office, no one there.
— from Conscience — Volume 4 by Hector Malot

He knew not only what they had to say in given circumstances, but also what they would say in any circumstances that might arise.
— from A Novelist on Novels by Walter Lionel George

Ther may be moe, and these I yeld because I ken noe other waye to help this necessitie, rather then that I can think anye idle symbol tolerable in just orthographie.
— from Of the Orthographie and Congruitie of the Britan Tongue A Treates, noe shorter than necessarie, for the Schooles by Hume, Alexander, schoolmaster

They had made a dash to London and back, they had seen the lights of Piccadilly again, and the crowds in the streets of a city which seemed to know nothing of war, they had dined with women in evening-dress who had asked innocent questions about the way of a modern battlefield, and they had said good-bye again to those who clung to them a little too long outside a carriage window.
— from The Soul of the War by Philip Gibbs

"I know no one whom time has touched so lightly as yourself, Lady Mason; but if I may speak to you as a friend—" "If you may not, Mr. Furnival, who may?"
— from Orley Farm by Anthony Trollope

Perhaps she has a great many cares and troubles that you know not of, which try her nerves, and make her feel very irritable, and thus speak hastily when she does not intend it.
— from Miss Beecher's Domestic Receipt Book Designed as a Supplement to Her Treatise on Domestic Economy by Catharine Esther Beecher

It was evident to me from the very first that the man knew nothing of wrestling, that he had merely his strength to depend upon.
— from The Wide World Magazine, Vol. 22, No. 127, October to March, 1909 by Various