On discovery of this horrid spectacle, they shrieked out, which brought down Calas the father, the mother being seized with such terror as kept her trembling in the passage above.
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

Her venerable ladyship upon perceiving that Ch'in Chung, with his handsome countenance, and his refined manners, would be a fit companion for Pao-yü in his studies, felt extremely delighted at heart; and having readily detained him to tea, and kept him to dinner, she went further and directed a servant to escort him to see madame Wang and the rest of the family.
— from Hung Lou Meng, or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel, Book I by Xueqin Cao

And supposing that Gods also philosophize, which I am strongly inclined to believe, owing to many reasons—I have no doubt that they also know how to laugh thereby in an overman-like and new fashion—and at the expense of all serious things!
— from Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Other languages were the Alabama, Koasati, Hichitee, Taskigi, Uchee, Natchee, and Sawanugi [ 499 ] or Shawano.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

I have travelled much, I have deeply studied men, individually and in a body, but I have never met with true sociability except in Frenchmen; they alone know how to jest, and it is rare, delicate, refined jesting, which animates conversation and makes society charming.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

zu beherrschen —The web of this world is woven out of necessity and contingency; the reason of man places itself between the two, and knows how to control them.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

The web of this world is woven of necessity and contingency; the reason of man places itself between them, and knows how to rule them both.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

They know the difference, but they also know how to blink it.
— from What Is Man? and Other Essays by Mark Twain

So many people flew to assist King Harald, that Svein was overpowered by numbers, and fled.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

However I have heard also another story, told by the Peloponnesians, that Anacharsis was sent out by the king of the Scythians, and so made himself a disciple of Hellas; and that when he returned back he said to him that had sent him forth, that the Hellenes were all busied about every kind of cleverness except the Lacedemonians; but these alone knew how to exchange speech sensibly.
— from The History of Herodotus — Volume 1 by Herodotus

This is a very clever thing to do; it is a thing which they alone know how to do who know how to fall from high places with a self-saving rebound; and Mrs. Arcularius, who was a decidedly ignorant woman, was also a marvelously clever one.
— from An Ambitious Woman: A Novel by Edgar Fawcett

It was not possible as yet to bring the common mind openly to the heights of those great doctrines of life and practice which the Wisdom of the Moderns also embodies, but the new teachers of that age knew how to appreciate, as the man of science only can fully appreciate, the worth of those motives that were then beginning to agitate so portentously so large a portion of the English people.
— from The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded by Delia Salter Bacon

“That a kind husband to his wife, Permits each pleasure of this life, I may conceive it; But that the man so blind should be As not to see what all else see, I won’t believe it.
— from The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 17, No. 484, April 9, 1831 by Various

Though her veil was down, I could see her tears, and knew her thoughts must be sadder even than mine: I drew her hand towards me, and held it as I would a child's.
— from The Lost Stradivarius by John Meade Falkner

thur’s been no wet—neer y drop; an whatsomiver sign’s been made for a week past, kin be understood as well, as if it war did yisterday—that is by them as knows how to read it.
— from The Headless Horseman: A Strange Tale of Texas by Mayne Reid

“I have set men’s consciences at rest concerning penance, baptism, prayer, crosses, life, death and the Sacrament of the Altar, and also ordered the question of marriage, of secular authority, of the relations of father and mother, wife and child, father and son, man and maid—in short, every condition of life, so that all know how to live and how to serve God according to one’s state.”
— from Luther, vol. 2 of 6 by Hartmann Grisar

The possibility of the process of evolution, as a means of accounting for the existence of any known animal, depends in some degree upon the animals among which, by sexual generation, the supposed transition from one kind of animal to another kind has taken place.
— from Creation or Evolution? A Philosophical Inquiry by George Ticknor Curtis

Seydlitz understood beautiful things, and knew how to live; Nietzsche envied him a little.
— from The life of Friedrich Nietzsche by Daniel Halévy

The hands stood still;—they knew Randall—and they also knew him to be a powerful man, and were afraid to grapple with him.
— from The Narrative of William W. Brown, a Fugitive Slave by William Wells Brown