"Daddy, oh, daddy, I know now how it is, about being—dead.
— from Just David by Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman) Porter

It is true, there is not a great deal of difficulty in keeping a tradesman's books, especially if he be a retailer only; but yet, even in the meanest trades, they ought to know how to keep books.
— from The Complete English Tradesman (1839 ed.) by Daniel Defoe

In those times, Thou knowest we had to dodge, or duck, or die; I kept my head for use of Holy Church; And see you, we shall have to dodge again, And let the Pope trample our rights, and plunge His foreign fist into our island Church To plump the leaner pouch of Italy.
— from Queen Mary; and, Harold by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron

The ship pitched badly, and there was a good deal of difficulty in keeping the dishes on the table.
— from The Flight of the Silver Ship: Around the World Aboard a Giant Dirgible by Hugh McAlister

"Dear old David, I know!"
— from The Treasure of Heaven: A Romance of Riches by Marie Corelli

I can' no mo'e figger dat out den I kin fly.
— from The Winning Clue by James Hay

In my third year I took pleasure in crawling under the bed with my boy-cousin who was nine months my senior, and after we had taken down our drawers, in kissing each other's nates.
— from Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 5 Erotic Symbolism; The Mechanism of Detumescence; The Psychic State in Pregnancy by Havelock Ellis

Some one is dying or dead, I know.
— from Barren Honour: A Novel by George A. (George Alfred) Lawrence

Whence they came, how long they stayed, why they departed or disappeared, I know not.
— from Early London: Prehistoric, Roman, Saxon and Norman by Walter Besant