Work kills no one, but worry has killed vast multitudes.
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden
Newman, who in power of taciturnity was excelled by few people, made no attempt to break silence; and so they went on, until they had very nearly reached Miss Morleena’s home, when Mr. Lillyvick said: ‘Were the Kenwigses very much overpowered, Mr. Noggs, by that news?’ ‘What news?’ returned Newman.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens
The field and ground was chosen in St. Andrews, and three landed men and three yeomen chosen to shoot against the English-men,—to wit, David Wemyss of that ilk, David Arnot of that ilk, and Mr. John Wedderburn, vicar of Dundee; the yeomen, John Thomson, in Leith, Steven Taburner, with a piper, called Alexander Bailie; they shot very near, and warred [worsted] the English-men of the enterprise, and wan the hundred crowns and the tun of wine, which made the King very merry that his men wan the victory.'
— from The Lady of the Lake by Walter Scott
We said we should like to know very much, and he added, ‘If you will promise to keep it a secret, I may be able to satisfy your curiosity.’
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova
Feminine nouns corresponding to distinctly masculine nouns such as frato , knabo , viro , may be formed from these by inserting the suffix -in- just before the noun-ending -o: fratino , sister (from frato, brother ).
— from A Complete Grammar of Esperanto by Ivy Kellerman Reed
I told him you were an orphan that the Cuthberts had adopted, and nobody knew very much about what you’d been before that.”
— from Anne of Green Gables by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery
Kies voĉojn mi aŭdas?
— from A Complete Grammar of Esperanto by Ivy Kellerman Reed
I have, therefore, received a very good education, and have been treated by these kidnappers very much as the slaves were treated in Asia Minor, whose masters made them grammarians, doctors, and philosophers, in order that they might fetch a higher price in the Roman market.”
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas
I don't know very much, I admit, but I do know what you thought you'd have to keep from me, and I admire you all the more for it.
— from Triplanetary by E. E. (Edward Elmer) Smith
Nobody knew very much about those years, for she was one of those rare women who have no confidante, and she was too busy for much active mourning.
— from Happy House by Hutten zum Stolzenberg, Betsey Riddle, Freifrau von
Then they don't like us to know very much, so the only reading matter that gets to us are tech maintenance manuals, empty of basic theory.
— from Deathworld by Harry Harrison
“We’ll wait till the lad wakens, and then most likely he can give us a smattering of the details, although I don’t allow he knows very much regarding the disaster, for he must have been lashed to that spar either just before, or immediately after, the ship struck,” Keeper Downey said as he sought to refresh himself with the contents of a steaming bowl of coffee.
— from The Life Savers: A story of the United States life-saving service by James Otis
"Captain Karl von Mueller," she said cuttingly, "to use the name by which I knew you abroad, do you wish my father's invention for Germany?"
— from I Spy by Natalie Sumner Lincoln
Sir Francis Darwin has since told me that his authority is Kerner von Marilaun, Pflanzenleben (1888), vol.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (Third Edition, Vol. 11 of 12) by James George Frazer
[Pg 131] The example of Mira Ceti and of other known variables makes this at least doubtful.
— from Sir William Herschel: His Life and Works by Edward S. (Edward Singleton) Holden
"These Easterns keep very much to themselves, you know.
— from The Orange-Yellow Diamond by J. S. (Joseph Smith) Fletcher
Even yet, I don't know very much.
— from The Gloved Hand by Burton Egbert Stevenson
I see you don't know very much about house-building, Cousin Jerry."
— from The Adventures of Paddy the Beaver by Thornton W. (Thornton Waldo) Burgess
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