When he had made an end of his breakfast, and was wiping his knife on his leg, I said to him, without a word of preface,— “After you were gone last night, I told my friend of the struggle that the soldiers found you engaged in on the marshes, when we came up.
— from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

Our knowledge of Hindu literature is still very imperfect.
— from The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer

"It was very kind of his lordship, indeed," said Mrs. Wilson, thoughtfully: "I did not know he was at the castle.
— from Precaution: A Novel by James Fenimore Cooper

he cried, rolling his long body over and over in the grass, and kicking out his legs in sheer ecstasy, "Miner Hobbs, if ever you git an idea fixed in your head, earthquakes won't shake it.
— from The Loves of Ambrose by Margaret Vandercook

I felt a strange pleasure in hearing now, for the first time, that Thora Kinlay owed her life, in some sort, to my own father.
— from The Pilots of Pomona: A Story of the Orkney Islands by Robert Leighton

My management, not only of the time, but also of the money, for which I have to give account, has not been the best; and now, by the kindness of his lordship, I shall be enabled, with confidence, to give my people news of the good fortune to which this curious by-path has led me.
— from Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Travels, Vol. I (of 2) by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The kiss of her lips is so sweet and balmy that it cures when I shake with an ague fit.
— from Nina Balatka by Anthony Trollope

My knowledge of her language is still too restricted to enable me to find out.
— from Madame Chrysanthème by Pierre Loti

The choice must be made between some of the types of management in common use, which the writer feels are properly designated by the word "drifting," and the more modern scientific management based on an accurate knowledge of how long it should take to do the work.
— from Shop Management by Frederick Winslow Taylor