But not without retribution; for the wicked pay back a return in kind to the dignities they put on by the pollution of their touch.
— from The Consolation of Philosophy by Boethius

Whether he questions the average man, or even the specialist in canoe magic and carving, to this he will always receive in Kiriwina a negative answer.
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski

"Yes, Philip," she said, with her childish contrition when he used to chide her, "you are right, I know.
— from The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

I had been sitting with him for an hour, perhaps—at any rate I know that it was getting so dark that I could only just make out his head lying like a gleam of gold upon the pillow we had extemporised out of a bag covered with a blanket—when suddenly Billali arrived with an air of great importance, and informed me that She herself had deigned to express a wish to see me—an honour, he added, accorded to but very few.
— from She by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

He fixed his eyes on Mary, and replied— ‘I knows a nicerer.’
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

I will not, therefore, take any pains upon your account; and should I labour with you upon my own account, in expectation of a return, I know I should be disappointed, and that I should in vain depend upon your gratitude.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

Writing in the American Historical Register , Charles H. Browning says: "William Rodney came to Philadelphia with Penn in 1682, and resided in Kent County, where he died in 1708; he built the old London coffee house at Front and Market Streets in 1702."
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

You may cease to... all right, I know I am not to say that.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

It is a religion in keeping with the character of the people who had confederated together for the purpose of compelling unwilling tribute from weaker tribes.
— from The Prehistoric World; Or, Vanished Races by Emory Adams Allen

However, you are right, I know, and I am wrong.
— from The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame

Additional records of amphibians and reptiles in Kansas counties.
— from Life History and Ecology of the Five-Lined Skink, Eumeces fasciatus by Henry S. (Henry Sheldon) Fitch

Their service under the stars was not at all regular, I know.
— from Their Yesterdays by Harold Bell Wright

Through it all pierced the wail of a postman standing at the door with a letter in his hand and calling out at regular intervals, "Krahnay, Krahnay!"
— from Their Silver Wedding Journey — Complete by William Dean Howells

This is a most lovely spot in which to live, the most lovely that I have ever seen; and Ricardo is kindness itself to me during the rare periods when he is ‘at home’, as he calls it.
— from A Middy in Command: A Tale of the Slave Squadron by Harry Collingwood

but if you take him, there's a risk—” “I know the risk.”
— from The Girl from Keller's by Harold Bindloss

A record is kept by each teacher, of the daily recitations in his department.
— from The Education of American Girls by Anna C. (Anna Callender) Brackett

If your father was less busy and richer, I know he would like to try to do something for the people there."
— from The Oriel Window by Mrs. Molesworth