Schwarzkopf, S.A. Der Kaffee in Naturhistorischer diaetetischer und medicinischer Hinsicht, seine Bestandtheile, Anwendung, Wirkung und Geschichte.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers
But, at the same time (and this, as far as I know, is not done anywhere), the student should begin some simple form of mass drawing in paint, simple exercises, 83 as is explained later in the chapter on Mass Drawing, Practical, being at first attempted and criticised solely from the point of view of tone values.
— from The Practice and Science of Drawing by Harold Speed
I have experimented and experimented until now I know it never does run uphill, except in the dark.
— from Eve's Diary, Complete by Mark Twain
Know I not Death?
— from The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron
Suspicion was so strong against the Chevalier, that common justice required his arrest; and, meanwhile, until he cleared himself, he should be kept in not dishonourable durance, and every regard had for his name, and the services of his honourable grandfather.
— from Barry Lyndon by William Makepeace Thackeray
Napildi hinúun kus kásu , I never did get my good arguments out.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff
‘You know I never drink, Annabella,’ replied he seriously.
— from The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë
So that what lies beyond our positive idea TOWARDS infinity, lies in obscurity, and has the indeterminate confusion of a negative idea, wherein I know I neither do nor can comprehend all I would, it being too large for a finite and narrow capacity.
— from An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume 1 MDCXC, Based on the 2nd Edition, Books 1 and 2 by John Locke
I am always prepared to go, only, as you know, I never do go, and perhaps shall go this time as little as before.”
— from Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas
Cocos (Keeling) Islands NA deaths/1,000 population (2003 est.)
— from The 2003 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency
L. Sulla dictator, cum plerique in patrimoniis amplis eluerentur et familiam pecuniamque suam prandiorum conviviorumque gurgitibus proluissent, legem ad populam tulit, qua cautum est, ut Kalendis, Idibus, Nonis diebusque ludorum et feriis quibusdam 15 sollemnibus sestertios trecenos in cenam insumere ius potestasque esset, ceteris autem diebus omnibus non amplius tricenos.
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce
As novelists are supposed to know everything, even the secrets of female hearts, which the owners themselves do not perhaps know, we may state that at eleven years of age Mademoiselle Betsi, as Miss Amory was then called, had felt tender emotions towards a young Savoyard organ-grinder at Paris, whom she persisted in believing to be a prince carried off from his parents; that at twelve an old and hideous drawing-master (but, ah, what age or personal defects are proof against woman's love?) had agitated her young heart; and that, at thirteen, being at Madame de Caramel's boarding-school, in the Champs Elysees, which, as everybody knows, is next door to Monsieur Rogron's (Chevalier of the Legion of Honour) pension for young gentlemen, a correspondence by letter took place between the seduisante Miss Betsi and two young gentlemen of the College of Charlemagne, who were pensioners of the Chevalier Rogron.
— from The History of Pendennis by William Makepeace Thackeray
The next chapel of which anything definite is known is “Notre Dame de Pulias,” otherwise “La Chapelle de l’Epine.”
— from Guernsey Folk Lore a collection of popular superstitions, legendary tales, peculiar customs, proverbs, weather sayings, etc., of the people of that island by MacCulloch, Edgar, Sir
snorted Doctor Kale; "I never did love it!
— from The Man from Jericho by Edwin Carlile Litsey
“Thank you, Louis, you're a capital fellow; I know it now, don't I?”
— from Louis' School Days: A Story for Boys by E. J. (Edith J.) May
Inherited sympathy of this kind is no doubt inexplicable—but it exists.
— from The Pipes of War A Record of Achievements of Pipers of Scottish and Overseas Regiments during the War, 1914-18 by John (Pipe-Major) Grant
You know I never did.
— from Lady Audley's Secret by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon
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