I was in two minds about coming beyond the gate without ringing: not knowing
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

He has only come three and twenty miles today; all nonsense; nothing ruins horses so much as rest; nothing knocks them up so soon.
— from Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

‘My daughter, sir, requires no kindness from you or anybody else.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

Rumbuha nang kahúya, Head towards that tree.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

And Rostopchín now knew it.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

We have, as a rule, no knowledge of the perpetrator’s habits, and when we regard some one of his actions as most reprehensible,—quarrel or insult or maltreatment of his wife or children—he responds to us with a most astounded expression.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

One man was named Kothē Kallan (kotha, a stone), because he was born on a rock near Kotagiri.
— from Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 7 of 7 by Edgar Thurston

Lakaw ra ngánì kay dúru na nílang paábut, Go on now.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

However, the Internet raises new kinds of problems here because of the ease that data can be (re)produced and (re)distributed on a huge scale and because of the tradition of it being available for free.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

Curiosity concerning things which one would rather not know is a human weakness.
— from Amphitryon by Molière

With all that regarded nautical knowledge, he was studious to become thoroughly acquainted; and, being ardently desirous of making his first voyage, which was now impracticable in the navy, his uncle placed him under the care of Mr. John Rathbone, an excellent seaman, who then had the command of a West-Indiaman belonging to the respectable house of Hibbert, Purrier, and Horton.
— from The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson, Volume 1 by James Harrison

I have put in a new paragraph about the stars in other parts than the Milky Way and Solar Cluster, but there is really nothing known about them.
— from Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences, Vol. 2 by Alfred Russel Wallace

For a moment I stood a little puzzled by this curious request, not knowing exactly how to take it, whether humorously or in earnest.
— from Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville

The fleet will remain near Kamranh till they are ready and can join us.
— from From Libau to Tsushima A narrative of the voyage of Admiral Rojdestvensky's fleet to eastern seas, including a detailed account of the Dogger Bank incident by Evgenii Sigizmundovich Politovskii

According to the explanation, they had received no kingdom when John wrote, and were all to exercise power at the same time: “The ten horns which thou didst see, are ten kings who have not yet received a kingdom; but they receive power as kings, one hour with the wild beast,” 17:12.
— from A Brief Commentary on the Apocalypse by Sylvester Bliss

He wandered about running, not knowing whither he went.
— from The Mediæval Hospitals of England by Rotha Mary Clay

Not far from the palace is a singular group of rocks named Käse und Brod ( Cheese and Bread ), on the way to which you pass a stone quarry, where you can pick up fine crystals of quartz, and see men digging feldspar for the china-manufacturers at Berlin.
— from A July Holiday in Saxony, Bohemia, and Silesia by Walter White

"Right now," Kit answered.
— from Greenacre Girls by Izola L. (Izola Louise) Forrester