If we estimate this great work either by the authenticity of the information which it contains, or its utility in promoting the advancement of arts and sciences, we should not consider it as an object of any extraordinary encomiums; but when we view it as a literary monument, which displays the whole knowledge of the ancients, relative to Natural History, collected during a period of about seven hundred years, from the time of Thales the Milesian, it has a just claim to the attention of every speculative enquirer.
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius

Nicholas waited upon him at the time mentioned, and then learnt all that had taken place on the previous day, and all that was known of the appointment Ralph had made with the brothers; which was for that night; and for the better understanding of which it will be requisite to return and follow his own footsteps from the house of the twin brothers.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

Fernand sought and obtained leave to go and serve in Greece, still having his name kept on the army roll.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

Then Sir Gawain and his company collected a great plenty of cattle, and of gold and silver, and all kind of treasure, and returned to King Arthur, where he still kept the siege.
— from The Legends of King Arthur and His Knights by Knowles, James, Sir

Having doomed spies, doing certain things openly for purposes of deception, and allowing our spies to know of them and report them to the enemy.
— from The Art of War by active 6th century B.C. Sunzi

No ancient writer mentions that this was done in the grove at Nemi; but our knowledge of the Arician ritual is so scanty that the want of information on this head can hardly count as a fatal objection to the theory.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

" Some, who seemed to be better informed than the rest, declared that the "row" would begin with the ballad of the KING OF THULE and rushed to the subscribers' entrance to warn Carlotta.
— from The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux

Until a few years ago, known only to a relatively small community on the continent but commanding an ever increasing attention which has borne his name far beyond the boundary of his country, the personality of Rainer Maria Rilke stands to-day beside the most illustrious poets of modern Europe.
— from Poems by Rainer Maria Rilke

The disconnectedness is of the realities known; the connectedness is of the knowledge of them; and reality and knowledge of it are, from the psychological point of view held fast to in these pages, two different facts.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

If then the officers of the regular army, as a body, were not in fact deeply read in what, as we have seen, Jomini calls "the science of generals," their advantage over equally well-educated civilians is reduced to a practical knowledge of the duties of the company and the petty post, and in comparison with the officers of well-drilled militia companies it amounted to little more than a better knowledge of the army regulations and the administrative processes.
— from Military Reminiscences of the Civil War, Volume 1: April 1861-November 1863 by Jacob D. (Jacob Dolson) Cox

There was, however, in the Palaeozoic period, a considerable group of comparatively simple Ferns (for which Arber has proposed the collective name Primofilices); the best known of these are referred to the family Botryopterideae, consisting of plants of small or moderate dimensions, with, on the whole, a simple anatomical structure, in certain cases actually simpler than that of any recent Ferns.
— from Darwin and Modern Science by A. C. (Albert Charles) Seward

Kate occupies the adjoining room.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 385. November, 1847. by Various

The expeditions of Ross, Parry, and Franklin made trips which, although not successful to the degree of winning the reward, added much to the knowledge of the Arctic regions.
— from The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 2, No. 11, March 17, 1898 A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls by Various

He therefore decided that those members of the expedition who had come to study plague would go to the fair with the Kirghiz, whilst he, with the rest of the expedition, would make observations on the Kalmuks of the Astrakhan region.
— from Life of Elie Metchnikoff, 1845-1916 by Olga Metchnikoff

"And take thou the branches, my brother, except one that I keep on the arbor roof to make the night fragrant like the valley of retreat beyond the way to Ajalon.
— from The Coming of the King by Bernie Babcock

It achieved little in the way of discovery, but yet, as will be hereafter explained, the loss of the Jeannette had an important bearing on a future expedition which was destined to add greatly to our knowledge of the Arctic regions.
— from The Siege and Conquest of the North Pole by George Bryce

He had never known Stacy's real motive for that act,—both Demorest and Stacy had kept their knowledge of the attempted robbery from their younger partner,—it always seemed to him to be a precious revelation of Stacy's inner nature.
— from The Three Partners by Bret Harte

A thorough knowledge of the anatomical relations of the various structures in the pelvis is essential for the performance of the various operations upon the uterus and its appendages.
— from A Text-book of Diseases of Women by Charles B. (Charles Bingham) Penrose

It is a kind of theft and robbery, thus to defraud, and beguile.
— from Works of John Bunyan — Volume 03 by John Bunyan