But the good dame's social condition as a sea-captain's widow led her to think she could talk French to me, and her attempts made me wonder which of us knew least of that language.
— from My Life — Volume 1 by Richard Wagner
“Who of us knows anything about chloroforming a cat?” demanded Anne gloomily.
— from Anne of the Island by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery
The Fatimites The founder of the Fatimite dynasty of the Khalifas was one Ubeidallah, known as the Mahdi, accused of Jewish ancestry by his adversaries the Abbasides, who declared--apparently without truth--that he was the son or grandson of Ahmed, son of Adbullah ibn Maymūn, by a Jewess.
— from Secret Societies And Subversive Movements by Nesta Helen Webster
Which of us knows all the words of the language he speaks and the entire signification of each?
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim
So things went on until Ku’s mother got an abscess on her leg, and lay writhing in agony day and night.
— from Myths and Legends of China by E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers) Werner
Abbot, too, was sewing in another room, and Bessie, as she moved hither and thither, putting away toys and arranging drawers, addressed to me every now and then a word of unwonted kindness.
— from Jane Eyre: An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë
This amounted to what the wisest of us knew.
— from In Darkest Africa, Vol. 1; or, The Quest, Rescue, and Retreat of Emin, Governor of Equatoria by Henry M. (Henry Morton) Stanley
We must go, on the faith of a mere indication, to a vague object, miss our end, curse our luck, improvise to ourselves elegies, dithyrambics, exclaim idiotically before inoffensive pedestrians who observe us, knock over old apple-women and their baskets, run hither and thither, stand on guard beneath a window, make a thousand suppositions.
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac
With our united kind regards and deep sympathy, Believe me, Very truly yours, Ada B. Chamberlain.
— from The New Century Standard Letter-Writer Business, Family and Social Correspondence, Love-Letters, Etiquette, Synonyms, Legal Forms, Etc. by Alfred B. Chambers
A grim chuckle followed the suggestion, and the soft wheep, wheep of unscabbarded knives followed the chuckle.
— from Life's Handicap: Being Stories of Mine Own People by Rudyard Kipling
Which of us knows anything of this community or thought it essential to our naval efficiency?
— from The Fleets Behind the Fleet The Work of the Merchant Seamen and Fishermen in the War by W. MacNeile (William MacNeile) Dixon
There was one unescapable knot, no matter how she untangled the skein.
— from Cinderella Jane by Marjorie Benton Cooke
"With our united kind regards to him and to you, "Yours very sincerely, "G. SALISBURY."
— from The Romance of Isabel Lady Burton: The Story of Her Life. Volume II by W. H. (William Henry) Wilkins
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