Now fishing, except to the devoted disciple of Izaak Walton, is not the most lively of occupations; therefore, it is scarcely, perhaps, to be wondered that on the day after Lady Audley's departure, the two young men (one of whom was disabled by that heart wound which he bore so quietly, from really taking pleasure in anything, and the other of whom looked upon almost all pleasure as a negative kind of trouble) began to grow weary of the shade of the willows overhanging the winding streams about Audley.
— from Lady Audley's Secret by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

To which Zorobabel and Jeshua the high priest replied, that they were the servants of God Almighty; that this temple was built for him by a king of theirs, that lived in great prosperity, and one that exceeded all men in virtue; and that it continued a long time, but that because of their fathers' impiety towards God, Nebuchadnezzar, king of the Babylonians and of the Chaldeans, took their city by force, and destroyed it, and pillaged the temple, and burnt it down, and transplanted the people whom he had made captives, and removed them to Babylon; that Cyrus, who, after him, was king of Babylonia and Persia, wrote to them to build the temple, and committed the gifts and vessels, and whatsoever Nebuchadnezzar had carried out of it, to Zorobabel, and Mithridates the treasurer; and gave order to have them carried to Jerusalem, and to have them restored to their own temple, when it was built; for he had sent to them to have that done speedily, and commanded Sanabassar to go up to Jerusalem, and to take care of the building of the temple; who, upon receiving that epistle from Cyrus, came, and immediately laid its foundations; "and although it hath been in building from that time to this, it hath not yet been finished, by reason of the malignity of our enemies.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

No knowledge of the beautiful is possible purely a posteriori , and from mere experience; it is always, at least in part, a priori , although quite different in kind, from the forms of the principle of sufficient reason, of which we are conscious a priori .
— from The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer

If I drop, I hope Emmy will never know of that business.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

The human mind has no knowledge of the body, and does not know it to exist, save through the ideas of the modifications whereby the body is affected.
— from Ethics by Benedictus de Spinoza

450 If we do not know ourselves to be full of pride, ambition, lust, weakness, misery, and injustice, we are indeed blind.
— from Pascal's Pensées by Blaise Pascal

He has never known one to breed in an old cavity, but in one instance a pair selected a partially decayed stump for their operations.
— from A History of North American Birds; Land Birds; Vol. 2 of 3 by Robert Ridgway

Of these Eusebius says that he does not know of their being handed
— from The Gospel According To Peter: A Study by Walter Richard Cassels

Luba made an expressive gesture with her fingers in his face, and that was the only answer he received; for she suddenly noticed me again, and, without another word, she dipped her hand to her bosom and pulled out a naked knife of the bowie pattern and twisted it under my nose.
— from Nights in London by Thomas Burke

“I am not keen on the business,” I said with calm dignity, “so if you think that I am asking too much—there are others, no doubt, who would do the work for less.”
— from Castles in the Air by Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness

[27] Yet, even this famous town had no kind of trade before the fifteenth century, when the inhabitants began to cure salmon, and export it.
— from History of Civilization in England, Vol. 3 of 3 by Henry Thomas Buckle

After them rode the Council; and then the new Knights of the Bath, to create whom it had been the custom, the day previous to the coronation.
— from Robin Tremayne A Story of the Marian Persecution by Emily Sarah Holt

This Certicesford was in times past called Nazaleoy of the late remembred Nazaleod king of the Britains.
— from Holinshed Chronicles: England, Scotland, and Ireland. Volume 1, Complete by William Harrison

But what limit is set to a switchman's courage I have never known, because I've never known one to balk at a yardmaster's order.
— from The Daughter of a Magnate by Frank H. (Frank Hamilton) Spearman

Ye know his latchstring is always out, but I’ve niver known of their being in his company.”
— from The Boy Patrol Around the Council Fire by Edward Sylvester Ellis