In the evening, she said, the evening of my visit to the Heights, I knew, as well as if I saw him, that Mr. Heathcliff was about the place; and I shunned going out, because I still carried his letter in my pocket, and didn’t want to be threatened or teased any more.
— from Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

when he is upon some even plain where he may safely ride; and afterwards, when they tell him, “The hare is killed,” he will be as overjoyed and proud of it as he hears others say they are.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

I shouldn’t like to have it known that she was so much attached to me.
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

A company of merchants from Neuchatel came to undertake the general edition, and a printer or bookseller of the name of Reguillat, from Lyons, thrust himself, I know not by what means, amongst them to direct it.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

I bent towards him, I kissed his forehead, and whispered, "I have never spoken of this to her, and perhaps she does not love me.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

Madam d’Epinay, who commonly passed the summer in the country, continued there but a part of this; whether she was more detained by her affairs in Paris, or that the absence of Grimm rendered the residence of the Chevrette less agreeable to her, I know not.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Yet in the churchyard on the hill is Kate's grave.
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

kylla , to poll, to cut the shoots off trees, from koll , the top, head; Icel. kollr , head, crown.
— from A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 to 1580 by A. L. (Anthony Lawson) Mayhew

Nearly all the highest intelligence known to history had drowned itself in the reflection of its own thought, and the bovine survivors had rudely told the truth about it, without affecting the intelligent.
— from The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams

In a letter received from Senator Palmer at this time he says: I fully sympathize with your regret and chagrin over the reverse in Oregon but hardly with your conclusion, viz., that "the women should stop asking legislatures to submit this question to the electors, to have it killed by the majority, made up of ignorance and whiskey, native and foreign, and all go to Congress for success," etc.
— from The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 2 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Ida Husted Harper

'Ah,' screamed the hag, 'I knew he wanted to get out.
— from The Four Canadian Highwaymen; Or, The Robbers of Markham Swamp by J. E. (Joseph Edmund) Collins

"Then he is killed!" shrieked Brenda.
— from A Traitor in London by Fergus Hume

I had only vaguely heard it said that frogs had a rudiment of a sixth toe; had I known that such great men had looked to the point I should not have dreamed of looking myself.
— from More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1 A Record of His Work in a Series of Hitherto Unpublished Letters by Charles Darwin

It being suggested to him that God did not prosper him because he did not attend mass, nor wear a rosary, nor hear sermons, nor confess, but swore, and blasphemed, and that if the Holy Inquisition knew of this he would be apprehended, he replied that the devil must help him; that he did not care for me nor the Inquisition, that he would not confess, and that God gave him nothing which the devil would give.
— from Records of the Spanish Inquisition, Translated from the Original Manuscripts by Andrew Dickson White

Some [p272] assert that they collect in companies, and chase a buffalo by turns, till he is fatigued, when they join and soon dispatch him: others, that, as the buffalo runs with the tongue hanging out, they snap at it in the chase till it is torn off, which preventing him from eating, he is reduced by starvation, and soon overpowered: others, that, while running, they gnaw and lacerate {222} the legs and ham-strings till they disable him, and then he is killed by the gang.
— from Gregg's Commerce of the Prairies, 1831-1839, part 2 by Josiah Gregg

You know my father, who thinks that he is king of France ad interim.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

If there be an Infinite Being, He cannot know all there is to be known unless He know Himself; and adequately to know what is infinite is to have infinite knowledge.
— from The Philosophy of the Conditioned by Henry Longueville Mansel

Take, for instance, the admirable burlesque entitled Ixion in Heaven , where the author tells how Ixion, king of Thessaly, having fallen into disrepute on earth, was taken up into heaven by Jupiter and feasted by the gods.
— from The Menorah Journal, Volume 1, 1915 by Various

Nothing can make him resolve, where the elements for coming to a resolution are wanting; nothing can make him say to himself "I know," when he does not know; nothing can make him say "it will be as if I knew," because that "as if I knew" would introduce the arbitrary method into the whole of knowledge, and would cause universal doubt to take the place of doubt circumscribed.
— from The Philosophy of the Practical: Economic and Ethic by Benedetto Croce