Here we were very merry with Sir W. Pen about the loss of his tankard, though all be but a cheat, and he do not yet understand it; but the tankard was stole by Sir W. Batten, and the letter, as from the thief, wrote by me, which makes: very good sport.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Did not the recollection of the heroic simplicity of the Homeric life nerve you up?' 'Not one bit!'
— from North and South by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

His name, you understand, had not been pronounced once.
— from Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

Almost every law and method ingenuity could devise was employed by the legislatures to reduce the Negroes to serfdom,—to make them the slaves of the State, if not of individual owners; while the Bureau officials too often were found striving to put the "bottom rail on top," and gave the freedmen a power and independence which they could not yet use.
— from The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois

Wouldn’t you, Nell?’ ‘Yes, uncle; but that’s not saying much for Mr. Huntingdon; for I’d rather be an old maid and a pauper than Mrs. Wilmot.’
— from The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë

The fruits of civilisation may, indeed, be transmitted from one race to another and consequently a certain artificial homogeneity may be secured amongst different nations; yet unless continual intermarriage takes place each race will soon recast and vitiate the common inheritance.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

what’s afoot now, young un?” “Why, you don’t know, I s’pose, that Lizy’s cut stick, and clared out, with her young un?”
— from Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

It is said the Chinese are not at all inclined to go to their hospital for fear of the ultra foreign methods which they do not yet understand.
— from Letters from China and Japan by Harriet Alice Chipman Dewey

Moreover, he had not yet uttered a word or breathed a syllable.
— from Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo

The year before, the keel of the first of the battle-ships, the "Texas," had been laid in the navy-yard at Norfolk, Va., and in 1889 work was begun at the Brooklyn navy yard upon another vessel of the same class, the "Maine."
— from The Naval History of the United States. Volume 2 by Willis J. (Willis John) Abbot

Key rack designs "Now you understand," said Ralph, "why I couldn't allow you to make a knife at first.
— from Carpentry and Woodwork by Edwin W. Foster

Ten minutes or a quarter of an hour devoted to this as soon as you return from the field, will be more than repaid when next you use them.
— from The Dog by W. N. (William Nelson) Hutchinson

The author is indebted to many friends for their assistance in getting the book together, and would specially mention Dr. H. B. Hutchinson, Bacteriologist, Rothamsted Experimental Station, for assistance in connection with the bacteriology of fermented milks; Mr. Thomas Douglas, of Wimbledon, who has assisted with the chemistry of the subject; Mr. S. Javrilovitch, of Belgrade, Servia, for local information and illustrations; Dr. Otokar Laxa, Bacteriologist, of Prague, Bohemia, for general assistance; the editor of Bacteriotherapy , New York, U.S.A., for the use of the group of illustrations 30-44; the publishers of the Centralblatt für Bakteriologie , Jena, for the group of illustrations 14-29; and many others, some of whom are referred to in the text.
— from The Bacillus of Long Life A Manual of the Preparation and Souring of Milk for Dietary Purposes, Together with an Historical Account of the Use of Fermented Milks, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day, and Their Wonderful Effect in the Prolonging of Human Existence by Loudon M. Douglas

It is Wilson Flagg who so curtly says: “The fact, not yet understood in America, that the birds which are the most mischievous as consumers of fruit are the most useful as destroyers of insects, is well known by all the farmers of Europe; and while we destroy the birds to save the fruit, and sometimes cut down the fruit trees to starve the birds, the Europeans more wisely plant them for their sustenance and accommodation.”
— from Birds and Nature Vol. 09 No. 4 [April 1901] by Various

“Here you’ve done what you were supposed to do––you’ve done it better than you were supposed to do it––and then because of that cussed enforcement that neither your uncle nor I ever dreamed about, you’re liable to get punished just as badly as if
— from Rope by Holworthy Hall

"The sun is not yet up;" the young man answered: "When he comes, he will easily do for that small trifle of mist."
— from L'Arrabiata and Other Tales by Paul Heyse

After Robert Toombs left the University of Georgia, he entered Union College at Schenectady, N. Y., under the presidency of Dr. Eliphalet Knott.
— from Robert Toombs Statesman, Speaker, Soldier, Sage by Pleasant A. Stovall

What she meant by having a place for herself in the world she did not yet understand of course.
— from One Woman's Life by Robert Herrick

Now you understand me?
— from The Republic by Plato