But no one knew that, and he just as little as any one.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

And though the name of King be not yet given to God, nor of Kingdome to Abraham and his seed; yet the thing is the same; namely, an Institution by pact, of Gods peculiar Soveraignty over the seed of Abraham; which in the renewing of the same Covenant by Moses, at Mount Sinai, is expressely called a peculiar Kingdome of God over the Jews: and it is of Abraham (not of Moses)
— from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

If wisdom is desirable on its own account, if virtue, to deserve the name, must be founded on knowledge; let us endeavour to strengthen our minds by reflection, till our heads become a balance for our hearts; let us not confine all our thoughts to the petty occurrences of the day, nor our knowledge to an acquaintance with our lovers' or husbands' hearts; but let the practice of every duty be subordinate to the grand one of improving our minds, and preparing our affections for a more exalted state!
— from A Vindication of the Rights of Woman With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects by Mary Wollstonecraft

In the neighbourhood of Klausenburg, Transylvania, a cock is buried on the harvest-field in the earth, so that only its head appears.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

Then with the solemn and far-away look of a seer I made my pyramid and extracted these words from it, “Fair and discreet Esther, no one knows that at the entrance of the temple of love you have a mole precisely like that which appears on your chin.”
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

They do not sweat and whine about their condition, They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins, They do not make me sick discussing their duty to God, Not one is dissatisfied, not one is demented with the mania of owning things, Not one kneels to another, nor to his kind that lived thousands of years ago, Not one is respectable or unhappy over the whole earth.
— from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

O thou which haste, made him that first made thee; O neare of kinne to all the Trinetie; 5 O Pallace where the kinge of all, and more; Went in, and out, yet never opened doore; [pg 435] Whose flesh is purer, than an others sperrit Reache him our Prayers, and reach us down his merrit; O bread of lyfe which sweld'ste up without Leaven; 10 O bridge which joynst togeather earth and heaven; Whose eyes see me through these walles, and throughe glasse, And through this fleshe as thorowe Cipres passe.
— from The Poems of John Donne, Volume 1 (of 2) Edited from the Old Editions and Numerous Manuscripts by John Donne

Whether all the enemy forces were, as we supposed, six miles away, or whether they were near by in that sea of mist, no one knew till after eight o’clock.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

Fresh-cut surfaces of Na or K. Thiophosgene and Thio-ethers (RCS.OR).
— from The Nature of Animal Light by E. Newton (Edmund Newton) Harvey

The Chinuk. —The Chinuk of which the Watlala of Hale is variety is more like the Nsietashawus or Killamuk than aught else.
— from Opuscula: Essays chiefly Philological and Ethnographical by R. G. (Robert Gordon) Latham

So went the long hours, with numerous turnings as the humor urged; for they were now only killing time, and waiting for the dawn to come.
— from Flying the Coast Skyways; Or, Jack Ralston's Swift Patrol by Ambrose Newcomb

It was not only known to all at the office that Thomas had disappeared, but it was perfectly known as well that for some time he had been [Pg 281] getting into bad ways, and his disappearance was necessarily connected with this fact, though no one but Mr. Stopper knew the precise occasion of his evanishment, and this he was, if possible, more careful than ever to conceal.
— from Guild Court: A London Story by George MacDonald

A BOUT four years ago there lived, in the neighbourhood of Kentish Town, a wedded couple of the name of Green.
— from Secret Service; or, Recollections of a City Detective by Andrew Forrester

In one of the steeps of Cruächan, nearly opposite the rock of Brandir, there is a secret cave, now only known to a very few of the old fox-hunters and shepherds: it is still called “Uagh Phadian,” Mac Phadian’s cave; and is asserted by tradition to be the place in which Mac Phadian died.
— from The Every-day Book and Table Book. v. 3 (of 3) Everlasting Calerdar of Popular Amusements, Sports, Pastimes, Ceremonies, Manners, Customs and Events, Incident to Each of the Three Hundred and Sixty-five Days, in past and Present Times; Forming a Complete History of the Year, Month, and Seasons, and a Perpetual Key to the Almanac by William Hone

Will it be able to do this, at a time when the idea of evolution is beginning to impregnate our mental atmosphere, [246] and in doing so is making us realise that we are near of kin to all other living things, and that our lives, like theirs, are dominated by the master-law of growth ?
— from What Is and What Might Be A Study of Education in General and Elementary Education in Particular by Edmond Holmes

There is no true carp, though the Dutch give the name of “kurper” to a very curious little fish about four inches long which is common in streams flowing into the Vaal.
— from The African Colony: Studies in the Reconstruction by John Buchan

"On the grave-posts of our fathers Are no signs, no figures painted; 20 Who are in those graves we know not, Only know they are our fathers.
— from The Song of Hiawatha: An Epic Poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow