"I don't quite understand it," said the mamma stork, when her husband repeated it; "however, it is not my fault, but the fault of the thought; whatever it may be, I have something else to think of.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

Thus, when the eye is quite uncultivated, it sees that a man is a man, and a face is a face, but has no idea what shadows or lights fall upon the form or features.
— from Modern Painters, Volume 4 (of 5) by John Ruskin

He quickly unlocked in succession the doors of the three other rooms on the second floor.
— from Chasing an Iron Horse Or, A Boy's Adventures in the Civil War by Edward Robins

"I really can't, Grandma, though I do quite understand it; so tell him, if you please."
— from The Young Emigrants; Madelaine Tube; the Boy and the Book; and Crystal Palace by Susan Anne Livingston Ridley Sedgwick

“I don’t quite understand,” I said, to draw her out further, although, in fact, I had more than a glimmering of what she meant.
— from Allan and the Holy Flower by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

"And then lie quiet until I speak to you."
— from The Odds And Other Stories by Ethel M. (Ethel May) Dell

"Believe me, I quite understand," I said, turning to my visitor.
— from The Green Eyes of Bâst by Sax Rohmer

I watched them quietly until I saw the wretch, styling himself Colonel, take up a 20 ring, which, more on account of associations than for any intrinsic value, I highly prized.
— from Our Women in the War by Francis Warrington Dawson

That a post of such importance should have been offered, unsolicited, to a student hitherto quite unknown, is supposed to have been owing to the influence of Mr. Wilberforce.
— from Memoirs of the Life and Labours of the Rev. Samuel Marsden, of Paramatta, Senior Chaplain of New South Wales; and of His Early Connexion with the Missions to New Zealand and Tahiti by Samuel Marsden