He gone, I to my Lord Bruncker’s, and there spent the evening by my desire in seeing his Lordship open to pieces and make up again his watch, thereby being taught what I never knew before; and it is a thing very well worth my having seen, and am mightily pleased and satisfied with it.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

I commend Cosmo de Medici and Castruccius Castrucanus, than whom Italy never knew a worthier captain, another Alexander, if [3520] Machiavel do not deceive us in his life: when a friend of his reprehended him for dancing beside his dignity, (belike at some cushion dance) he told him again, qui sapit interdiu, vix unquam noctii desipit ,
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

I lived on the edge of the village then, and had just lost myself over Davenant's "Gondibert," that winter that I labored with a lethargy—which, by the way, I never knew whether to regard as a family complaint, having an uncle who goes to sleep shaving himself, and is obliged to sprout potatoes in a cellar Sundays, in order to keep awake and keep the Sabbath, or as the consequence of my attempt to read Chalmers' collection of English poetry without skipping.
— from Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau

I have an honest lad to my tailor, whom I never knew guilty of one truth, no, not when it had been to his advantage.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

This was all I ever got from my parents; and who or what they were, I never knew, not I, for they never claimed me; bad cess to them!
— from Roughing It in the Bush by Susanna Moodie

King over the kings of the world Is Nadir, king of kings, and lord of the period.
— from Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 1 of 3 or the Central and Western Rajput States of India by James Tod

This work is not known to exist.
— from Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England by Bede, the Venerable, Saint

With the best intentions in the world, I never knew any thing that made as many singular mistakes as the “Goosetherumfoodle.”
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

It is not necessary to give the detailed terms of the treaty; but it is important to observe, first, that the express renunciation of Canada and Nova Scotia by France foreshadowed that political theory which is now known as the Monroe doctrine, the claims of which can scarcely be made good without an adequate sea-force; and next, that the alliance with France, and subsequently with Spain, brought to the Americans that which they above all needed,—a sea power to counterbalance [347] that of England.
— from The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan

Thereupon they surrender to the King under a treaty which is not kept, and so perish.
— from The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; On Human Nature by Arthur Schopenhauer

I to my Lord Brouncker's, and there spent the evening by my desire in seeing his Lordship open to pieces and make up again his watch, thereby being taught what I never knew before; and it is a thing very well worth my having seen, and am mightily pleased and satisfied with it.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys by Samuel Pepys

Other rivers there are, which for a small part of their course are excellent for boating; but there is nothing in England to equal the Thames, where the water is now kept at a high level, and where, for the 112 miles between London Bridge and Oxford, there is practically continuous beauty and convenience for boating.
— from The Thames by G. E. (Geraldine Edith) Mitton

"This was indeed nobly kind and generous, and we all felt it as such.
— from The Eve of All-Hallows; Or, Adelaide of Tyrconnel, v. 2 of 3 by Matthew Weld Hartstonge

The beginnings of contrapuntal and polyphonic music have been traced to what is now known as the old French school, having its active period between about 1100 and 1370, or thereabouts.
— from A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present by W. S. B. (William Smythe Babcock) Mathews

It is a thing which is not kept for sacred places, and no prayers are needed for that!”
— from The Flute of the Gods by Marah Ellis Ryan

He entered the Bay of New York September the 3d, passed through the Narrows, and anchored in what is now called Newark Bay; on the 12th resumed his voyage, and, drifting with the tide, remained over night on the 13th about three miles above the northern end of Manhattan Island; on the 14th sailed through what is now known as Tappan Zee and Haverstraw Bay, entered the Highlands and anchored for the night near the present dock of West Point.
— from The Hudson Three Centuries of History, Romance and Invention by Wallace Bruce

He gone, I to my Lord Bruncker's, and there spent the evening by my desire in seeing his Lordship open to pieces and make up again his watch, thereby being taught what I never knew before; and it is a thing very well worth my having seen, and am mightily pleased and satisfied with it.
— from Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1665 N.S. by Samuel Pepys

That I should be ground to death between the two was lost upon me as I saw the girl standing alone upon the tug's deck, as I saw the stern high in air and the bow rapidly settling for the final dive, as I saw death from which I could not save her clutching at the skirts of the woman I now knew all too well that I loved.
— from The Land That Time Forgot by Edgar Rice Burroughs