92 Do you not know that those great men lived as they did in order to introduce among men the way of plain living?
— from The Works of the Emperor Julian, Vol. 2 by Emperor of Rome Julian

Nangítà kug trabáhu, I am looking for work.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

All wolves, foxes, jackals, and species of the cat genus, when kept tame, are most eager to attack poultry, sheep, and pigs; and this tendency has been found incurable in dogs which have been brought home as puppies from countries, such as Tierra del Fuego and Australia, where the savages do not keep these domestic animals.
— from On the Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life by Charles Darwin

I was in full hope of seeing daily every appearance of that change which I could wish; not knowing the devices of satan, who had many of his emissaries to sow his tares as fast as I sowed the good seed, and pull down as fast as I built up.
— from The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, Or Gustavus Vassa, The African Written By Himself by Olaudah Equiano

“Of course it is—did you never know that before?
— from The Portrait of a Lady — Volume 1 by Henry James

I heard that a distinguished wise man and reformer asked him if he did not want the world to be changed; but he answered with a chuckle of surprise in his Canadian accent, not knowing that the question had ever been entertained before, "No, I like it well enough."
— from Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau

But all that is beside the question; Rabelais did not know these.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

But while her brothers and sisters, who moved to the cities to win wealth and fame, are not known to the world, she became more famous than a princess.
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden

But the dwarf said, ‘Let the poor things enjoy themselves, you shall not kill them.’
— from Grimms' Fairy Tales by Wilhelm Grimm

I am convinced, Socrates, said Cebes, and have nothing more to object; but if my friend Simmias, or any one else, has any further objection to make, he had better speak out, and not keep silence, since I do not know to what other season he can defer the discussion, if there is anything which he wants to say or to have said.
— from Phaedo by Plato

Unfortunately, the public could come to no decision on the point, for the reporters were not kind to Lord Arthur, and the substance of his speeches was as unknown to the world as his manner of delivering them.
— from Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 12, No. 29, August, 1873 by Various

And Jacques, as he sat in a chair by the fire four days after the tragedy, did not know that the clergyman was reading over a grave on the hillside, words which are for the hearts of the quick as for the untenanted dead.
— from Pierre and His People: Tales of the Far North. Volume 5. by Gilbert Parker

I'd begun to think I warn't going to get a hint of no kind to help me.
— from The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer's Comrade) by Mark Twain

"'Well, and why is Áronffy so low-spirited?' "'—As if you should not know that,' said the Pharisee, making a face of surprise: 'not know anything about it?
— from Debts of Honor by Mór Jókai

She approached and said to him in a whisper: "You won't beat my children the first few days, will you, even if they do not know their lessons?"
— from The Red and the Black: A Chronicle of 1830 by Stendhal

It is certain, that these angles are not known to the mind, and consequently can never discover the distance.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

Nothing now known to science can accomplish what happened to Mr. H. W. Kline that night; that is, as Prof. James so pertinently says, “Conversion is the only means by which a radically bad person can be changed into a radically good person.”
— from Twice-born Men in America or, The Psychology of Conversion as Seen by a Christian Psychologist in Rescue Mission Work by Harriet Earhart Monroe

I do not know that I should call it more than disconcerting.
— from The Adventures of Elizabeth in Rügen by Elizabeth Von Arnim

You do not know the world, and so you cannot know my worth.
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac