It is nevertheless singular that I never knew so much about the art of enjoying life, as since I have seen its end so near me."
— from The Red and the Black: A Chronicle of 1830 by Stendhal
"Kurvenal, siehst du es nicht?" ("Kurvenal, seest thou it not?") Kurvenal sees no sail upon the sea.
— from Richard Wagner His Life and His Dramas A Biographical Study of the Man and an Explanation of His Work by W. J. (William James) Henderson
"Snow fell in extraordinary quantities all day," writes La Salle, "and it kept on falling for nineteen days in succession, with cold so severe that I never knew so hard a winter, even in Canada.
— from France and England in North America, Part III: La Salle, Discovery of The Great West by Francis Parkman
In “The Merchant of Venice” Bellario, the learned doctor of Padua, praises Portia in similar terms: “I never knew so young a body with so old a head.”
— from The Man Shakespeare and His Tragic Life Story by Frank Harris
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