So nobody ever knew why the crowd had assembled, and Potcheshihin and Optimov had by now forgotten the existence of the starlings who were innocently responsible for the proceedings.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

9 For so long as we were in the garden, we neither saw nor even knew what darkness is.
— from The First Book of Adam and Eve by Rutherford Hayes Platt

Kind = nature, race, birth, species; natural, etc.; kindly = as by birth and kinship, natural, filial, gentle, genial, human and humane. Known = made known.
— from Revelations of Divine Love by of Norwich Julian

If a man wishes to act the hero on the stage he must not think of forming part of the chorus; he should not even know how the chorus is made up.
— from The Dawn of Day by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

If no hero were there to fight the dragons, we should not even know that they were dragons.
— from Aesop's Fables; a new translation by Aesop

This advice was, as it happened, useless; for though the persons concerned said nothing, everybody knew about it, and people said, with their usual malice, that the dupes had been duped most thoroughly, and that St. Germain had pocketed the hundred thousand florins; but this was not the case.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

Eugenius' bull emphatically enjoined that no Christian should stand in any relation of servitude to a Jew, and should not even kindle a fire for him on the Sabbath; that Jews should be distinguished from Christians by a peculiar costume, and reside in special quarters.
— from History of the Jews, Vol. 4 (of 6) by Heinrich Graetz

Gegen die Trichterfurche zu aber steht namentlich am hinteren Theile der Genitalfalte der Centralcanal häufig noch durch einen kurzen Zellstrang mit dem Keimepithel der Trichterfurche in Verbindung; mitunter findet sich hier sogar noch eine kleine Höhlung, Rest des ursprünglich hier vorhandenen weiten Trichters ( Taf. XX .
— from The Works of Francis Maitland Balfour, Volume 1 (of 4) Separate Memoirs by Francis M. (Francis Maitland) Balfour

"And didn't she talk of how other artists had trusted her with secrets nobody else knew?
— from The Way of Ambition by Robert Hichens

Marker CHAPTER XXXIV BACK FROM THE GRAVE When David came in to supper, he said nothing, expecting Kirsty every moment to appear.
— from Heather and Snow by George MacDonald

Elizabeth Woodcock , an English woman, returning home from market in one of the most stormy nights ever known in England, was overwhelmed in a snow drift, where she remained eight days without sustenance.
— from The Every Day Book of History and Chronology Embracing the Anniversaries of Memorable Persons and Events in Every Period and State of the World, from the Creation to the Present Time by Joel Munsell

"No such thing; I am subject to rheumatism, so take every precaution against it," replied Miss Tremlow stiffly, not exactly knowing whether to feel offended or not.
— from It May Be True, Vol. 1 (of 3) by Wood, Henry, Mrs.

And especially is it good to learn why the prophet is without honor in his own country, sometimes not even known in his own age.
— from The Wonderful Story of Lincoln And the Meaning of His Life for the Youth and Patriotism of America by C. M. (Charles McClellan) Stevens