It went with the bonde-army as is often seen, that the men, although many in numbers, know not what to do when they have experienced a check, have lost their chief, and are without leaders.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

‘All those wasted years that lie behind me, I never knew, never even DREAMT!
— from The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame

It was no doubt the desire to avoid this mischance that led to the invention of the mechanical instrument, now known under the name of the guillotine , which is merely an improvement on a complicated machine which was much more ancient than is generally supposed.
— from Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period by P. L. Jacob

If man is not kin to God by his spirit, he is a base and ignoble creature.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

“Molly, I niver knew your equils—to think o' your poor mother as is a widow, an' I took you wi' as good as no character, an' the times an' times I've told you....” Molly had not seen the lightning, and the thunder shook her nerves the more for the want of that preparation.
— from Adam Bede by George Eliot

The man is not killed purposely, but the ceremony he undergoes often proves fatal.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

whence comest, how doest? but he sadly replies, Ego hercle nescio neque unde eam, neque quorsum eam, ita prorsus oblitus sum mei , I have so forgotten myself, I neither know where I am, nor whence I come, nor whether I will, what I do.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

p. 32 Miss Jessie began to tell me some more of the plans which had suggested themselves to her, and insensibly fell into talking of the days that were past and gone, and interested me so much I neither knew nor heeded how time passed.
— from Cranford by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

The exact year in which he fell a martyr is not known; but we can hardly be wrong in assuming that his death was nearly coincident with those of Polycarp and his companions.
— from St. Paul's Epistles to the Colossians and Philemon A revised text with introductions, notes and dissertations by J. B. (Joseph Barber) Lightfoot

‘May I not keep it myself?’
— from The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë

Tuesday, instead of being the lineal descendant of Monday, is now known as the heir presumptive of Wednesday, and does duty as the eve of something else.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. 404, June, 1849 by Various

It was midnight in November, keenly cold, but windless; and in the purplish sky, the wintry crown of stars burned with silvery lustre, unlike the golden glow of constellations throbbing in sultry summer, and their white fires sparkled, flared as if blown by interstellar storms.
— from At the Mercy of Tiberius by Augusta J. (Augusta Jane) Evans

I never knew a Goop to help his mother, I never knew a Goop to help his dad,
— from Goops and How to Be Them by Gelett Burgess

If Maurice is not killed, and I shall try my best to stand between him and danger, he will marry you.
— from Monsieur Lecoq, v. 2 by Emile Gaboriau

"Fact of the matter is nobody knows much about Baxter—not even Mumps his chum.
— from The Rover Boys at School; Or, The Cadets of Putnam Hall by Edward Stratemeyer

Whether he ever became an honest man is not known, but the legend says he has from that day avoided 'bust-head whiskey.'
— from Continental Monthly, Vol. III, No IV, April 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various

I had to speak to Molly once or twice myself; I never knew her so garrulous about anything."
— from Senator North by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton

‘I fancy that our first shots killed them, and that one was really killed by Jens, but may I never know for certain!
— from Three in Norway, by Two of Them by Walter J. Clutterbuck

But, really, when once I begin to talk of these kind people, who were [Pg 330] so good to me, I never know when to leave off.
— from The Mysteries of Paris, Volume 2 of 6 by Eugène Sue

Several companies of these scouts were so enlisted, and for years the battalion did good service on the plains and in the mountains in Nebraska, Kansas and Wyoming, serving under Generals Auger, Emory, Carr, Royal, Mackenzie and Crook, some of the most successful Indian fighters in that Department.
— from Pawnee Hero Stories and Folk-Tales With notes on the origin, customs and character of the Pawnee people by George Bird Grinnell