Besides his European trip, a journey to Hawaii by way of Panama and a return across the continent gave a considerable [Pg ix] geographical range to his knowledge of the world at large.
— from Looking Backward: 2000-1887 by Edward Bellamy

“Well, it is odd enough,” he added; “but this knocking on the wall and listening was useless jugglery.
— from The Black Baronet; or, The Chronicles Of Ballytrain The Works of William Carleton, Volume One by William Carleton

The Virginia colonist had more knowledge of the world and less knowledge of himself, introspection, or any desire for it, being no part of his mental constitution or habit.
— from Anne Bradstreet and Her Time by Helen Campbell

“No, Katharine; I am a poor unfashioned creature, with little knowledge of the world, and little skill in books, or fair accomplishments: but this one gift I have,—I can read the human countenance, and see written thereon the thoughts of the heart, the play of the secret passions, the inclinations of the inner will, in characters plain to my faithful eye, and plainly I repeat my conviction that both these men do love you.
— from The Broken Font: A Story of the Civil War, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Moyle Sherer

Lord Lake kindly offered to write a letter in your favour to the Government of Bombay, asking them to give you the charge of a village district, which would keep you in comfort."
— from At the Point of the Bayonet: A Tale of the Mahratta War by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

And with all the hope of his childhood was his wrath of battle blent; And he thought: A little further, and the river of strife is passed, And I shall sit triumphant the king of the world at last.
— from The Story of Sigurd the Volsung by William Morris

"I have only to knock out the wedges, and loosen the stays, and get up a tripod made of three spars to lift them out; but I don't see how they are to be got in again."
— from The Lion of Saint Mark: A Story of Venice in the Fourteenth Century by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

Hans wondered to see these vast riches, which might have bought all the kingdoms of the world, and lay buried, useless, he thought, to anyone.
— from The Violet Fairy Book by Andrew Lang

He became acquainted with Solon, from whom he rapidly acquired a knowledge of the wisdom and learning of Greece, and by whose influence he was introduced to the principal persons in Athens.
— from The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg