“Again in the house of the Helper there dwelt a certain man, Beardless and low of stature, of visage pinched and wan: So exceeding old was Regin, that no son of man could tell In what year of the days passed over he came to that land to dwell: But the youth of king Elf had he fostered, and the Helper’s youth thereto, Yea and his father’s father’s: the lore of all men he knew, And was deft in every cunning, save the dealings of the sword: So sweet was his tongue-speech fashioned, that men trowed his every word; His hand with the harp-strings blended was the mingler of delight With the latter days of sorrow; all tales he told aright; The Master of the Masters in the smithying craft was he; And he dealt with the wind and the weather and the stilling of the sea; Nor might any learn him leech-craft, for before that race was made, And that man-folk’s generation, all their life-days had he weighed.”
— from Myths of the Norsemen: From the Eddas and Sagas by H. A. (Hélène Adeline) Guerber

He began to count the money on the path, we on our knees eagerly helping to stack it in little piles.
— from The Mysterious Stranger, and Other Stories by Mark Twain

The difficulties which here ensue depend actually upon the really enormous quantity of knowledge every human being must possess in making use of his senses.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

No one knew exactly how the miracle was accomplished.
— from The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton

IMG At the first peopling of paradise the Almighty had never laid so strict a charge on our father Adam to refrain from eating of the tree of knowledge except he had thereby forewarned that the taste of knowledge would be the bane of all happiness.
— from In Praise of Folly Illustrated with Many Curious Cuts by Desiderius Erasmus

There was a man called Eystein, who gave himself out for a son of King Eystein Haraldson.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

He came thither under the conduct of Bassus, a most valiant thegn of King Edwin, having with him Eanfled, the daughter, and Wuscfrea, the son of Edwin, as well as Yffi, the son of Osfrid, Edwin's son.
— from Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England by Bede, the Venerable, Saint

No one knew exactly how it came to pass, but no one grieved for him.
— from Household Tales by Brothers Grimm by Wilhelm Grimm

He asked me to accompany him ashore, promising to find some friends at whose house we might sleep; but he soon found himself a stranger in his native island: where he had once known everybody, he now knew nobody.
— from Incidents of Travel in Greece, Turkey, Russia, and Poland, Vol. 1 (of 2) by John L. Stephens

I ask not, alien world , from thee What my own kindred earth has still denied. .
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 64, No. 398, December 1848 by Various

Only by degrees can a particular reaction of the elements have been developed; and since our known elements have particular different reactions, they must be the product of different combinations.
— from A Review of the Systems of Ethics Founded on the Theory of Evolution by Cora May Williams

No one knows exactly how “Zeus” was pronounced, but in any case it cannot have been rigid, and in all probability the vocalisation varied from juice to sus , and from juge to jack and cock .
— from Archaic England An Essay in Deciphering Prehistory from Megalithic Monuments, Earthworks, Customs, Coins, Place-names, and Faerie Superstitions by Harold Bayley

No one knew exactly how it happened.
— from Diana Tempest, Volume III by Mary Cholmondeley

But the whole Chapter of Knights entreated him to abstain, and so many volunteered for this desperate service, that the only difficulty was to choose among them.
— from A Book of Golden Deeds by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge