You know the horse-riders are famous for never minding what the
— from Hard Times by Charles Dickens

Boerhaave, however, was not able to apply this knowledge to himself, as he died of a polypus on the heart before he had attained the age of perfect maturity, which Hypocrates fixes at between sixty and seventy years.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

He looked round and saw the knife that had stabbed Basil Hallward.
— from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

I kept thinking how much good the rain will do and how glad my garden must be for it, and imagining what the flowers and buds would think when the drops began to fall.
— from Anne of Avonlea by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

Some think that he chose this number of officers from that of the birds, which in the augury had portended the kingdom to him.
— from The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 by Livy

Turtles appear to reach a very old age, specimens having been known to have lived several hundred years.
— from Boy Scouts Handbook The First Edition, 1911 by Boy Scouts of America

'There is some truth in that,' said Emily, who would now have concluded it was Orsino's music, which she had heard, on the preceding night, had she not known, that he had neither taste, or skill in the art.
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

Fifty handmaids are within, whose task is in their course to keep unfailing store and kindle the household fire.
— from The Aeneid of Virgil by Virgil

They were both more accomplished and better read than I was; but with eagerness I followed in the path of knowledge they had trodden before me.
— from Jane Eyre: An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë

"[137] The late Professor Banergea, of Calcutta, in a publication entitled "The Aryan Witness," not only maintained the existence of monotheism in the early Vedas, but with his rare knowledge of Sanskrit and kindred tongues, he gathered from Iranian as well as Hindu sources many evidences of a monotheism common to all Aryans.
— from Oriental Religions and Christianity A Course of Lectures Delivered on the Ely Foundation Before the Students of Union Theological Seminary, New York, 1891 by Frank F. (Frank Field) Ellinwood

The fact of his blood being mixed exercises little or no influence over his feelings relative to his tribe, for, mixed as it may be, he knows that he is one of the tribe, and that the origin of his tribe is his origin.
— from A History of the Gipsies: with Specimens of the Gipsy Language by Walter Simson

V "That was mighty good of you; you saved my life!" said Keith to him, gratefully, as they walked up the street.
— from The Gray Dawn by Stewart Edward White

If he knew that he could visit you as often as he wanted, he would stay beside you for the entire day.
— from Travel Tales in the Promised Land (Palestine) by Karl May

And yet, she thought miserably to herself, he had certainly tried hard to be affectionate and kind to her—and probably it did not occur to him, as it did to his mother, how pathetic it was that he should have to try.
— from Peter's Mother by De La Pasture, Henry, Mrs.

'Do you know that he's killing himself on your account?
— from The Magician by W. Somerset (William Somerset) Maugham

We are knit to her by the memories of the blood and courage of our soldiers who fought for her in war; {258} by the memory of the wisdom and integrity of our administrators who served her in peace and who started so well on the difficult path of self-government.
— from The History of Cuba, vol. 4 by Willis Fletcher Johnson

He knew that Hunter had been moved by no civic impulse in reporting the fact to Eades; he did not know what his motive had been; perhaps he never would know.
— from The Turn of the Balance by Brand Whitlock

“We know that he has been stealing cattle from us.
— from With Hoops of Steel by Florence Finch Kelly

Finding that they were from the village which had been kind to him, he loaded their wagons with fat quarters, instead of filling their bodies with arrows, as they had first expected, and sent them home rejoicing.
— from Buffalo Land Authentic Account of the Discoveries, Adventures, and Mishaps of a Scientific and Sporting Party in the Wild West by W. E. (William Edward) Webb