Bobbie would have preferred Arithmetic, which was what Phyllis happened to be doing, and Phyllis of course thought Latin much the most interesting kind of lesson.
— from The Railway Children by E. (Edith) Nesbit

Touch : as most intimate kind of contact, 280 ; and social contact, 282 -83, 291 -93; study of, 329 -30; and taboo, 291 -93.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

This does not mean that other people would abstain from telling them, but members of the sub-clan are supposed to possess the most intimate knowledge of the mythical events, and to be an authority in interpreting them.
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski

About the same time Mithridates also declared war against the people of Sinope; Mithridates IV., king of Pontus, declares war against Sinope. which proved to be the beginning and occasion of the disaster which ultimately befell the Sinopeans.
— from The Histories of Polybius, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Polybius

that on the south side, which had hurried me away, and that on the north, which lay about a league on the other side; I say, between these two, in the wake of the island, I found the water at least still, and running no way; and having still a breeze of wind fair for me, I kept on steering directly for the island, though not making such fresh way as I did before.
— from The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

(At first other and more important kinds of utilitarian qualities stand in the foreground.)
— from Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

CHAPTER XXX The more I knew of the inmates of Moor House, the better I liked them.
— from Jane Eyre: An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë

Nothing more is known of them.
— from Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England by Bede, the Venerable, Saint

Imagination and mystery generally work their way together; and as there was a shade of mystery attached to Sir Everard's very ignorance of the person of one whom he admired and esteemed from report alone, imagination was not slow to improve the opportunity, and to endow the object with characteristics, which perhaps a more intimate knowledge of the party might have led him to qualify.
— from Wacousta : a tale of the Pontiac conspiracy (Complete) by Major (John) Richardson

I say the more it knows of what seems to have happened, or what is said to have happened, in many modern drawing-rooms, the less it knows what did or did not happen on that lofty and legendary hill, where a spire rises over Jerusalem and can be seen beyond Jordan.
— from The New Jerusalem by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

Many similar ruins are found throughout this vicinity, yet but little more is known of them than that they antedate the advent of white men.
— from Archeological Expedition to Arizona in 1895 Seventeenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1895-1896, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1898, pages 519-744 by Jesse Walter Fewkes

They are [Pg 117] not part of the same public; they do not discuss and deliberate in the same arena but apart, and have only a most imperfect knowledge of what passes in the minds of one another."
— from Under the Southern Cross Or Travels in Australia, Tasmania, New Zealand, Samoa, and Other Pacific Islands by Maturin Murray Ballou

For these lands they paid tribute in money, in kind, or in service, and we are told that these imposts amounted to the double of what could be exacted from Christians.
— from A History of the Inquisition of Spain; vol. 3 by Henry Charles Lea

And I'd rather keep this little chap alive than some men I know of.
— from The Hermit Doctor of Gaya: A Love Story of Modern India by I. A. R. (Ida Alexa Ross) Wylie

We had by this time seen a large proportion of the people, and our intercourse with them had brought to light traits of moral character, which, under a less intimate acquaintance, had lain concealed; while at the same time we gained a more intimate knowledge of their physical form.
— from The Mission to Siam, and Hué, the Capital of Cochin China, in the Years 1821-2 by George Finlayson

Mr. Ingersoll knew of Comstock's attempts to suppress heresy by means of this law, and when called upon by the Washington committee in charge of the petition, he allowed his name to go on the petition for modification, but he told them distinctly and plainly that he was not in favor of the repeal of the law, as he was willing and anxious that obscenity should be suppressed by all legal means.
— from The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Complete Contents Dresden Edition—Twelve Volumes by Robert Green Ingersoll

The Life and Amours of Muley Ishmael , King of Morocco .
— from The Revolutions of Portugal by abbé de Vertot

During the first three Acts the interest of this play is mainly tragic; the scene is densely crowded with incidents; the action hurried, abrupt, almost spasmodic; the style quick and sharp, flashing off point after point in brief, sinewy strokes; and all is rapidity and despatch: what with the insane fury of the King, the noble agony of the Queen, the enthusiasm of the Court in her behalf, and the King's violence towards both them and her, the mind is kept on the jump: all which, if continued to the end, would generate rather a tumult and hubbub in the thoughts, than that inward music which the title of the play promises; not to say, that such a prolonged hurry of movement would at length become monotonous and wearisome.
— from Shakespeare: His Life, Art, And Characters, Volume I. With An Historical Sketch Of The Origin And Growth Of The Drama In England by Henry Norman Hudson