Truly then, said he, my name is Gareth of Orkney, and King Lot was my father, and my mother is King Arthur's sister, her name is Dame Morgawse, and Sir Gawaine is my brother, and Sir Agravaine and Sir Gaheris, and I am the youngest of them all.
— from Le Morte d'Arthur: Volume 1 by Malory, Thomas, Sir

But in other cases, “Yours truly,” “Yours very truly,” “Your Friend,” “Your sincere Friend,” “Your Well-wisher,” “Your grateful Friend,” “Your affectionate Friend,” &c., &c., appears to be much more truthful, and to be more in keeping with the legitimate expression of good feeling.
— from The Gentlemen's Book of Etiquette and Manual of Politeness Being a Complete Guide for a Gentleman's Conduct in All His Relations Towards Society by Cecil B. Hartley

Be this as it may, I know that I can feel the heart-throbs of the ancient Greeks in their marble gods and goddesses.
— from The Story of My Life With her letters (1887-1901) and a supplementary account of her education, including passages from the reports and letters of her teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, by John Albert Macy by Helen Keller

[Pg 406] of the Father for the Son, but meaning that he should make it known, and that the Jews also, who had previously hated, should then love the Son who is our Christ.
— from The City of God, Volume II by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

But whatever I have been able to scrape together has gone every two months in keeping it up.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

And if we possess calmness, or generosity, or truthfulness, we are eager to make it known, so as to attach these virtues to that imaginary existence.
— from Pascal's Pensées by Blaise Pascal

The wagon jolted on, carrying me I knew not whither.
— from My Antonia by Willa Cather

‘The chastest poet and royalest, Vergilius Maro, that to the memory of man is known.’—Bacon. end div lives 347 APPENDIX VII.
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce

Man: I know your friendly minds and—O what noise!
— from The Poetical Works of John Milton by John Milton

Yes; well, our mission, the division's mission is to study the antipersonnel effects of munitions, including kinetic energy munitions, incendiary, and some chemical munitions.
— from Warren Commission (05 of 26): Hearings Vol. V (of 15) by United States. Warren Commission

Heriot was a payment made in kind or in money from the property left by a deceased tenant, and very generally consisted by custom of the best animal which had been in the possession of the man, or its equivalent in value.
— from An Introduction to the Industrial and Social History of England by Edward Potts Cheyney

Louisiana with an area exceeding all the rest of the United States, was bought from France in 1803, for $15,000,000, and from the territory were afterward carved the states of Louisiana, Arkansas, Missouri, Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, the Dakotas, Montana, Oklahoma, the Indian Territory and most of the states of Wisconsin, Minnesota, Colorado and Wyoming.
— from Thomas Jefferson, a Character Sketch by Edward Sylvester Ellis

He had a nephew named Irvin T. Pyles he raised from a baby, and Mister Irvin kept a store at de corner of de roads at our plantation.
— from Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Oklahoma Narratives by United States. Work Projects Administration

But to him I've given everything I had; not much, I know, but still—everything."
— from Mrs. Maxon Protests by Anthony Hope

Well (quoth Felice ) seeing thou hast made me such a sound and solemne promise, I will make it knowne unto thee.
— from The Decameron (Day 1 to Day 5) Containing an hundred pleasant Novels by Giovanni Boccaccio

Then the King answered, “Old man, I know the race of prophets full well, how ye sell your art for gold.
— from Stories of the Old World by Alfred John Church

There are some men, I know, who would die of mortification if they did not have their revenge: and it has taken me—yes, the man you see before you—more than fifty years to forget an insult I once received . . .
— from Mauprat by George Sand