Spangberg," nothing else is known of his early life.
— from Vitus Bering: the Discoverer of Bering Strait by Peter Lauridsen

There I remained through the winter and spring, endeavoring to perform my duties faithfully, and finding a good degree of happiness in the attractions of baby Mary, the considerate kindness of her excellent mother, and occasional interviews with my darling daughter.
— from Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself by Harriet A. (Harriet Ann) Jacobs

But Pearl, who was a dauntless child, after frowning, stamping her foot, and shaking her little hand with a variety of threatening gestures, suddenly made a rush at the knot of her enemies, and put them all to flight.
— from The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

And yet he was not sorry that he had come; the torment which had forced him to leave his own house had lost its sharpness when it lost its uncertainty, now that Odette's other life, of which he had had, at that first moment, a sudden helpless suspicion, was definitely there, almost within his grasp, before his eyes, in the full glare of the lamp-light, caught and kept there, an unwitting prisoner, in that room into which, when he would, he might force his way to surprise and seize it; or rather he would tap upon the shutters, as he had often done when he had come there very late, and by that signal Odette would at least learn that he knew, that he had seen the light and had heard the voices; while he himself, who a moment ago had been picturing her as laughing at him, as sharing with that other the knowledge of how effectively he had been tricked, now it was he that saw them, confident and persistent in their error, tricked and trapped by none other than himself, whom they believed to be a mile away, but who was there, in person, there with a plan, there with the knowledge that he was going, in another minute, to tap upon the shutter.
— from Swann's Way by Marcel Proust

Houtoi men oun tois ep' autophôrô kateilêmmenois oiketais homoiôs ekplagentes ho men esiôpêsen, ho
— from Galen: On the Natural Faculties by Galen

I drew her towards me; and, as she felt my kisses on her eyelids, as she felt my arms press her, she revived to the knowledge of what remained to her.
— from The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

He outstripped all his pursuers except one, a hot-tempered and spirited youth named Alkander, who came up with him, and striking him with a club as he turned round, knocked out his eye.
— from Plutarch's Lives, Volume 1 (of 4) by Plutarch

And they, that no-thing knewe of his entente, 1665 With-oute more, to Troilus in they wente.
— from Troilus and Criseyde by Geoffrey Chaucer

katalipontes oun, hôs ephên, tên pros toutous antilogian, tois boulomenois ta tôn palaiôn ekmanthanein kax hôn hêmeis idia peri autôn epeskemmetha.
— from Galen: On the Natural Faculties by Galen

Keighley opened his eyes wide upon the news, and then narrowed them cunningly as he considered it.
— from Old Clinkers: A Story of the New York Fire Department by Harvey Jerrold O'Higgins

Why had he not known of her engagement?
— from Elsie's Womanhood by Martha Finley

That very evening she gave an account to the King of her embassy; she solicited the liberty of the Marquis de Lauzun, and the King commenced by granting "the authorisation of mineral waters."
— from Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete by Various

“But she passed you just now without even a glance of recognition, and I thought you told me at the club this afternoon that all your knowledge of his evil ways came from her.
— from The Evil Shepherd by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim

She had found the keynote of harîm existence—resignation; not merely passive, but exultant as an act of worship.
— from Veiled Women by Marmaduke William Pickthall

The dates of his birth and death are unknown, nor is anything known of his early training.
— from The Story of Milan by Ella Noyes

A chief misfortune of high birth is that it usually shuts a man out from the large sympathetic knowledge of human experience which comes from contact with various classes on their own level, and in my father's time that entail of social ignorance had not been disturbed as we see it now.
— from Impressions of Theophrastus Such by George Eliot

But had she seen him passing through the hotel that night, and had sought to draw from him some knowledge of his early intercourse with the child, and confessed everything, and even produced the paper with his signature as a proof of identity?
— from The Three Partners by Bret Harte

As he kept open house everywhere, as he was fond of every sort of luxury, as he loved not less to lend money to his intimates than to lose it to them at cards, and as he got but poor prices for his novels and was not well paid for his consular services, it is not easy to see how he managed to make ends meet.
— from Views and Reviews: Essays in appreciation: Literature by William Ernest Henley