With a natural and beautiful action, the aged Indian raised his hands in supplication to that Power alike cognisant of the thoughts of white and red.
"The White Squaw"
Mayne Reid
Mrs. Bingham, too-who, to do her justice, seemed but little cognisant of our proceedings-from time to time evinced that species of motherly satisfaction which very young men rejoice much in, and older ones are considerably alarmed at.
"The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer, Complete"
Charles James Lever (1806-1872)
But it was decidedly a case of the wish being father to the thought: Not a movement had he made since he entered that she was not cognisant of it and, although she hated to acknowledge it to herself, deep down in her heart she was conscious that he was not as thoroughly under the sway of her dark eyes as she would have wished.
"The Girl of the Golden West"
David Belasco