I went accordingly, and found that he had received letters from the king of Navarre (grandfather of Henry IV.).
— from Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Charles Mackay

Evidently they would not speak, even "for me," and Mrs. Hooker sends around this note of explanation to the "old guard:" "I know of no gentlemen outside of members of Congress, that can help us at all, who can come.
— from The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Ida Husted Harper

The Edison telephone, when at its best, could transmit all kinds of noises, gentle or harsh; it could lift up its voice and cry aloud, or sink it to a confidential whisper.
— from Heroes of the Telegraph by John Munro

In fact, it was a kind of neutral ground on which men of, one might almost say, opposite theological opinions met for courteous tourney.
— from British Quarterly Review, American Edition, Vol. LIV July and October, 1871 by Various

I know that the doctor explained to him that, though not a Roman Catholic, he attended nearly all the members of that denomination in the United States, and there was some kind of negotiation going on when I left.
— from Old Memories: Amusing and Historical by MacPherson, Daniel, Mrs.

I know of no ghost of a fact supporting belief that disinclination to cross accompanies sterility.
— from More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1 A Record of His Work in a Series of Hitherto Unpublished Letters by Charles Darwin

It is no fiction of a poet or a moralist, but plain fact of history, that this King of Naples, grandson of the great Alfonso and father of the Ferdinand to be, quailed before the myriads of accusing dead that rose to haunt his tortured fancy in the supreme hour of peril.
— from Renaissance in Italy, Volume 1 (of 7) The Age of the Despots by John Addington Symonds

They know of no grappling of man either with the infinite or with his own nature; they recognise no conflict between freedom and fate, and no inner development of the soul.
— from Life's Basis and Life's Ideal: The Fundamentals of a New Philosophy of Life by Rudolf Eucken

Many and large trees, bearing a kind of nut, grew on the forest-covered slopes near the port.
— from The Voyages of Pedro Fernandez de Quiros, 1595 to 1606. Volume 1 by Pedro Fernandes de Queirós

There were not many topics, however, that could be touched on with impunity, and he returned more than once to the ice and the skating, as offering a kind of neutral ground, on which he was safe.
— from Maurice Guest by Henry Handel Richardson

I know of no good opportunity which I have resisted.
— from George Selwyn: His Letters and His Life by George Augustus Selwyn

But I know of no German or Austrian or Turk or Bulgarian who has so far admitted that the British or the French or the Russians or the Italians or the Belgians or the Servians or the Montenegrins or the Japanese can by any possibility have right on their side, nor do I know of any Japanese or Montenegrin or Servian or Belgian or Italian or Russian or Frenchman or Englishman who believes that the Bulgarians or the Turks or the Austrians or the Germans are in the right.
— from Thinking as a Science by Henry Hazlitt