No prickly pears and broiled rabbits, you know.
— from Man and Superman: A Comedy and a Philosophy by Bernard Shaw

And there's no better reason, you know, than your being my nephew; because it remains to be seen whether you're good for anything."
— from The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

We didn’t cook none of the pies in the wash-pan—afraid the solder would melt; but Uncle Silas he had a noble brass warming-pan which he thought considerable of, because it belonged to one of his ancesters with a long wooden handle that come over from England with William the Conqueror in the Mayflower or one of them early ships and was hid away up garret with a lot of other old pots and things that was valuable, not on account of being any account, because they warn’t, but on account of them being relicts, you know, and we snaked her out, private, and took her down there, but she failed on the first pies, because we didn’t know how, but she come up smiling on the last one.
— from Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

In the progress of his Anatolian conquest, Mahomet invested with a fleet and army the capital of David, who presumed to style himself emperor of Trebizond; 88 and the negotiation was comprised in a short and peremptory question, "Will you secure your life and treasures by resigning your kingdom? or had you rather forfeit your kingdom, your treasures, and your life?"
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

Old Father Time deputes me here before ye, Not for to preach, but tell his simple story: The sage, grave Ancient cough'd, and bade me say, “You're one year older this important day,” If wiser too—he hinted some suggestion, But 'twould be rude, you know, to ask the question;
— from Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Robert Burns

But rats, you know what Zilla is.
— from Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis

I'm roving about so, it's impossible to be regular, you know.
— from Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

But really, you know there is a great deal of sense in what she wants, and you have apparently already won a large sum.”
— from Gallegher and Other Stories by Richard Harding Davis

lack-a-day!—But, Geordie, my man—Auld wives' dreams are no to be regardit, ye ken.
— from The Shepherd's Calendar. Volume I (of II) by James Hogg

Money, unfortunately, has nothing to do with the past; it can take care of the future more or less, but the past is beyond repurchase, you know."
— from Fairfax and His Pride: A Novel by Marie Van Vorst

“Stephanette, Stephanette, do be reasonable, you know very well that I love you.”
— from The Knight of Malta by Eugène Sue

“Oh, I’ll find time between recitations, you know,” replied Wayne.
— from For the Honor of the School: A Story of School Life and Interscholastic Sport by Ralph Henry Barbour

He still hesitated some little time, but at last said, with the sedateness peculiar to him, as of one who overcame a struggle and made a sacrifice: “If he has decided it so it must be right, you know; but—but—you won’t let him forget me, will you?”
— from The First Violin A Novel by Jessie Fothergill

'Bruce was always inclined to be romantic, you know,' she said steadily.
— from Tenterhooks by Ada Leverson

I have just been reading your kind letter over again and find you had some doubt whether we had left the Temple entirely.
— from The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 5 The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb, 1796-1820 by Charles Lamb