According to Ben Jonson he died "for want of bread"; but whether that is a poetic way of saying that he had lost his property or that he actually died of destitution, will probably never be known.
— from English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English-Speaking World by William J. (William Joseph) Long

Who or what the Taskigi were is uncertain and can probably never be known, but they were neither Cherokee nor Muscogee proper.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

Priestley has very sufficiently proved the necessity of the individual action in his “Doctrine of Philosophical Necessity;” but Kant, whose merit in this respect is specially great, first proved the coexistence of this necessity with the freedom of the will in itself, i.e. , apart from the phenomenon, 69 by establishing the distinction between the intelligible and the empirical character.
— from The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer

Their losses, were variously estimated, but the whole truth will probably never be known, for in that army reports and returns were not the fashion.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

Pandúngi nang bátà kay náay ulan, Cover the child’s head because it’s raining.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

pitsikurnu n brass knuckles.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

One might swear that all the John Smiths and George Wilkinsons, and all the other pitiful nobodies between Kingdom Come and Baalbec would inscribe their poor little names upon the walls of Baalbec’s magnificent ruins, and would add the town, the county and the State they came from—and swearing thus, be infallibly correct.
— from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain

Never had he called me more frequently to his presence; never been kinder to me when there—and, alas! never had I loved him so well.
— from Jane Eyre: An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë

It was a solemn betrothal, sealed by pain, not by kisses.
— from Phoebe, Junior by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

The number of the Fenians killed will probably never be known.
— from In the Midst of Alarms by Robert Barr

Who he was, and what he was, will probably never be known.
— from The Underground World: A mirror of life below the surface by Thomas Wallace Knox

Now other strong men arise who pursue the same course, and lead directly up to the concentration of supreme authority in the hands of one man, and he not a consul, nor a tribune, nor a dictator, but an emperor, a titled personage never before known in Rome.
— from The Story of Rome from the Earliest Times to the End of the Republic by Arthur Gilman

Creon, the uncle of the fallen princes, now became king, caused Eteocles to be buried with distinguished honor, but suffered the body of Polynices to lie where it fell, forbidding any one, on pain of death, to give it burial.
— from The Classic Myths in English Literature and in Art (2nd ed.) (1911) Based Originally on Bulfinch's "Age of Fable" (1855) by Thomas Bulfinch

The slow mind of the narrator wandered in and out through the past, nudged by keen, quick questions from the nervous listener beside him.
— from Simeon Tetlow's Shadow by Jennette Lee

1 In Nimār the Kolis, like the Bhīls, made a trade of plunder and dacoity during the unsettled times of the eighteenth century, and the phrase ‘Nāhal, Bhīl, Koli’ is commonly used in old Marāthi documents to designate the hill-robbers as a class.
— from The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India, Volume 3 by R. V. (Robert Vane) Russell