Ingkantu ang milimut (naglimut) kaníya, An enchanted being led him into a different world.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

This vexed me much, not knowing how to act; and I lost some time in seeking after this Christian; and though, when the Sabbath came (which the negroes usually make their holiday)
— from The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, Or Gustavus Vassa, The African Written By Himself by Olaudah Equiano

Sit down; For thou must now know farther.
— from The Tempest The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [9 vols.] by William Shakespeare

Mahímù nga kuku ang iúkit, You can peel it off with your fingernails.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

After having shown the vileness and the greatness of man. —Let man now know his value.
— from Pascal's Pensées by Blaise Pascal

Dì siya musúkul nímu kay muskuládu ka, He won’t fight with you because you are brawny.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

But for me it was enough if, in my own bed, my sleep was so heavy as completely to relax my consciousness; for then I lost all sense of the place in which I had gone to sleep, and when I awoke at midnight, not knowing where I was, I could not be sure at first who I was; I had only the most rudimentary sense of existence, such as may lurk and flicker in the depths of an animal's consciousness; I was more destitute of human qualities than the cave-dweller; but then the memory, not yet of the place in which I was, but of various other places where I had lived, and might now very possibly be, would come like a rope let down from heaven to draw me up out of the abyss of not-being, from which I could never have escaped by myself: in a flash I would traverse and surmount centuries of civilisation, and out of a half-visualised succession of oil-lamps, followed by shirts with turned-down collars, would put together by degrees the component parts of my ego.
— from Swann's Way by Marcel Proust

Dì ku makigdúlà nímu kay palaaway ka, I will not play with you because you’re quarrelsome.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

One must not keep a rudder dragging across a boat's stem if he wants to get up the river fast.
— from Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain

How he saw me, how we met, how his heart was lost to me, and mine not kept from him, would take too long to tell, especially at a moment when I am in dread of the cruel cord that threatens me interposing between tongue and throat; I will only say, therefore, that Don Gregorio chose to accompany me in our banishment.
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

One of the most rigorously planned monasteries of the Middle Ages, that [ 208 ] of the lonely Chartreuse, founded by St. Bruno late in the eleventh century, at length relaxed its austerities, and came latterly to be known as a wholesale manufactory of a liqueur—the distinction by which most men now know also the name of the Benedictines.
— from A Short History of Christianity Second Edition, Revised, With Additions by J. M. (John Mackinnon) Robertson

No, obviously Harvey must not know until everything was arranged.
— from The Amazing Interlude by Mary Roberts Rinehart

The Lord helped me; nobody knows how much the Lord can help ’em, till they try,” said the woman, with a flashing eye.
— from Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

Mi n -ke' qa n '-ye, Big-raccoon.
— from Siouan Sociology by James Owen Dorsey

Don't you see, Frank; Spoof must not know—I love him."
— from Neighbours by Robert J. C. Stead

Two individuals were exceptions to this rule, and they jumped onto the idea and have been a constant motivating factor all throughout i.e. GCCI President and D-Link General Manager Nitin Kunkolienkar and our own colleague Frederick Noronha.
— from Behind the News: Voices from Goa's Press by Various

He was looking at everything round as a dying man might, not knowing what terrible revolution of life might have happened before he saw them again— "He looked on hill, and sea, and shore, As he might never see them more.
— from The Perpetual Curate by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

Three years after Mr. Perkin’s discovery of mauve, M. Verguin, of Lyons, obtained, by treating crude aniline with chloride of tin, the bright red colouring matter now known as magenta.
— from Discoveries and Inventions of the Nineteenth Century by Robert Routledge

But this you may not know perhaps.
— from The Magic Skin by Honoré de Balzac