If I take one side of the way and you the other to avoid observation, you will not run away, I know very well, if you make me a promise."
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

For anything I know, he was eating something to keep the raw morning air out; but he made motions with his mouth as if the pear were ripe already, and he were smacking his lips over it.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

" Pat replied, "Sure and I knows every rock in the channel.
— from The Art of Money Getting; Or, Golden Rules for Making Money by P. T. (Phineas Taylor) Barnum

Ha! am I King?
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

If it be demanded (as usually it is) whether this space, void of body, be SUBSTANCE or ACCIDENT, I shall readily answer I know not; nor shall be ashamed to own my ignorance, till they that ask show me a clear distinct idea of substance.
— from An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume 1 MDCXC, Based on the 2nd Edition, Books 1 and 2 by John Locke

Then in a moment when they blazed again Opening, I saw the least of little stars Down on the waste, and straight beyond the star I saw the spiritual city and all her spires And gateways in a glory like one pearl— No larger, though the goal of all the saints— Strike from the sea; and from the star there shot A rose-red sparkle to the city, and there Dwelt, and I knew it was the Holy Grail, Which never eyes on earth again shall see.
— from Idylls of the King by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron

334 Neither is that state (which, for anything I know, is almost peculiar to England, and hardly to be found anywhere else, except it be, perhaps, in Poland), to be passed over; I mean the state of free servants and attendants upon noblemen and gentlemen, which are noways inferior unto the yeomanry 187 for arms; and, therefore, out of all question, the splendor and magnificence, and great retinues, and hospitality of noblemen and gentlemen received into custom, do much conduce unto martial greatness; whereas, contrariwise, the close and reserved living of noblemen and gentlemen causeth a penury of military forces.
— from Bacon's Essays, and Wisdom of the Ancients by Francis Bacon

And I know nothing.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

And I know it wasn’t John—or either of the servants....
— from The Mystery at Dark Cedars by Edith Lavell

It is not usual to dance round-dances at the ward-room, so far as I know, or to bathe in clinging drapery at that rather dry and dusty resort.
— from Women and the Alphabet: A Series of Essays by Thomas Wentworth Higginson

If he lives, he lives as I knew him and clothed as I knew him and with his unalterable voice, in a heaven of daedal flowers or a hell of ineffectual flame; he lives, dreaming and talking and explaining, explaining it all very earnestly and preposterously, so I picture him, into the ear of the amused, incredulous, principal person in the place.
— from First and Last Things: A Confession of Faith and Rule of Life by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

It is worthy of remark, moreover, that even the Apostle Paul, who took Luke with him after the Ascension, had not been a follower of Jesus either, nor had seen him in the flesh, and certainly he did not, by the showing of his own Epistles, associate much with the other Apostles, so that Luke could not have had much opportunity while with him of acquiring from them any intimate knowledge of the events of Gospel history.
— from Supernatural Religion, Vol. 2 (of 3) An Inquiry into the Reality of Divine Revelation by Walter Richard Cassels

I had had experience of Java shipowners before, and I knew something of their pleasant little ways.
— from A Crime of the Under-seas by Guy Boothby

They should get into talk in the broken English which was the only language they could have in common, and she should burst into tears, and tell him that now Nina was sick; I imagined making this very simple, but very touching, and I really made it so touching that it brought the lump into my own throat, and I knew it would be effective with the reader.
— from Complete Project Gutenberg William Dean Howells Literature Essays by William Dean Howells

Joe went down to the—as far as I know he went down to the Book Depository to see what it looked like and I stayed in the bedroom and watched the television to find out what was, you know, going on.
— from Warren Commission (14 of 26): Hearings Vol. XIV (of 15) by United States. Warren Commission

Afterward I knew it sounded like Injun chants and coyotes howling, but Saxton asked if we didn't notice how much it was like the songs the children sing in play.
— from Plain Mary Smith: A Romance of Red Saunders by Henry Wallace Phillips

Rathe is a word still in use in the Weald of Sussex, where Saxon still lingers in the dialect of the common people; and a rathe , instead of an early spring, is spoken of; and a species of early apple is known as the Rathe -ripe.
— from Notes and Queries, Number 186, May 21, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various

I know that this will be some comfort to you, for, David, I, too, love her, and I know she loves me, and is glad that I am to be with her.
— from The Wasted Generation by Owen Johnson