Of course we did not know of this until long after.
— from A Diplomat in Japan The inner history of the critical years in the evolution of Japan when the ports were opened and the monarchy restored, recorded by a diplomatist who took an active part in the events of the time, with an account of his personal experiences during that period by Ernest Mason Satow
He had come straight down from the Widow's, had gone up to get the truth of the matter, and had unscrewed Limber Tim from the fence, and made him tell all he knew of the unhappy lady, and how it happened.
— from First Fam'lies of the Sierras by Joaquin Miller
But the people at Province Town did not know of this until long afterward.
— from A Little Maid of Province Town by Alice Turner Curtis
[76] The fort of Detroit was originally constructed to overawe the neighbouring Indian nations, and its military importance as the key of the upper lakes appears to have been well known to them.
— from The Life and Correspondence of Sir Isaac Brock, K.B. Interspersed with notices of the celebrated Indian chief, Tecumseh, and comprising brief memoirs of Daniel De Lisle Brock, Esq., Lieutenant E.W. Tupper, R.N., and Colonel W. De Vic Tupper by Brock, Isaac, Sir
Young Pete was not to know of this until long after the knowledge could have had any value in shaping his career.
— from The Ridin' Kid from Powder River by Henry Herbert Knibbs
The King of the Universe, land and sea.
— from Studies in Moro History, Law, and Religion by Najeeb M. (Najeeb Mitry) Saleeby
In the words of Mr. Henry Deane, when defending Bunyan against the attacks of Dr. T. Smith, Professor of Arabic and Keeper of the University Library at Cambridge, who had come upon Bunyan preaching in a barn at Toft, they were “angry with the tinker because he strove to mend souls as well as kettles and pans,” and proved himself more skilful in his craft than those who had graduated at a university.
— from The Life of John Bunyan by Edmund Venables
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