Pilay ilúd nímu káda simistir?
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

"How I passed from my saddle to this place I never knew," she said afterwards; but in some way she succeeded in reaching the body, and mechanically uncovered the head.
— from Revolutionary Reader: Reminiscences and Indian Legends by Sophie Lee Foster

[Pg 296] CHAPTER XXII THE DISCOVERY OF CAT-EYE MOSE Having lighted our candles, we descended into the cave and set out along the path I now knew so well.
— from The Four-Pools Mystery by Jean Webster

The loss per mile in transit through the pipes is now known, so that the distance can be calculated at which it will pay to send it.
— from Studies in the South and West, with Comments on Canada by Charles Dudley Warner

“If the patient is not kept strictly quiet, I fear it will turn to brain fever,” said the doctor on leaving.
— from Major Frank by A. L. G. (Anna Louisa Geertruida) Bosboom-Toussaint

I never thought to call down fire on such, Or, as in wonderful and early days, Pick up the scorpion, tread the serpent dumb; But patient stated much of the Lord's life Forgotten or misdelivered, and let it work: Since much that at the first, in deed and word, Lay simply and sufficiently exposed, Had grown (or else my soul was grown to match, Fed through such years, familiar with such light, Guarded and guided still to see and speak) Of new significance and fresh result; What first were guessed as points, I now knew stars, And named them in the Gospel I have writ.
— from The Complete Poetic and Dramatic Works of Robert Browning Cambridge Edition by Robert Browning

He had also, how or when precisely is not known, secured the active aid and facile pen of the geographical Richard Hakluyt, who wrote for him, as no man else could write, in 1584, a treatise on Western Planting, a work intended probably to prime the ministry and the Parliament, to enable Raleigh first to secure the confirmation of his patent, and afterwards the co-operation and active interest of the nobility and gentry in his enterprise.
— from Thomas Hariot, the Mathematician, the Philosopher and the Scholar by Henry Stevens

The man in mufti, whose rank or profession I never knew, shook hands with me, while the two soldiers in the office stood to attention, their attitude being one of mingled respect and fear which is familiar to all who have visited Germany.
— from My Three Years in a German Prison by Henri Severin Beland