Amelia's confidence being perfectly restored to her, though she expressed a great deal of pretty jealousy about Miss Swartz, and professed to be dreadfully frightened—like a hypocrite as she was—lest George should forget her for the heiress and her money and her estates in Saint Kitt's.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

Everybody in Starkfield knew they were engaged.
— from Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton

“What!” cried Edmund, “if she knew your reasons!”
— from Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

It did not appear that he took any interest, either, in such kind of inquiries, for their own sake; but that he was in some way bound to seek for knowledge.
— from The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb

At a sufficiently delicate sign, the police gathered round the large man to lead him away; but their unobtrusiveness was somewhat staggered by the remarkable appearance of Father Brown, who was on his hands and knees on the carpet in the doorway, as if engaged in some kind of undignified prayers.
— from The Innocence of Father Brown by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

Either I shall kill him, or he will hit me in the head, or elbow, or knee.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

He had nothing on but a thin waistcoat; for his coat was spread over the bed, to supply the want of blankets.—When he rose up at my entrance, I scarce knew him.
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

[In the rabid desire to say something easily, I scarcely knew what I uttered at all.]—“I may say an excellently well constructed house.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2 by Edgar Allan Poe

Still, having been compelled by the natural course of events to enter into some kind of a discussion with them, we must add this further to what was said—that it is not only cathartic drugs which naturally attract their special qualities, 127 but also those which remove thorns and the points of arrows such as sometimes become deeply embedded in the flesh.
— from Galen: On the Natural Faculties by Galen

It may be I know something more of him than anyone else in Springvale knows.
— from The Price of the Prairie: A Story of Kansas by Margaret Hill McCarter

If I tried to unravel all those lines to all their endings, I should keep you here beyond your patience.
— from The Women of Tomorrow by William Hard

His power of fasting is prodigious, and his eyesight is so keen that a Yakouta one day told an eminent Russian traveler that he had seen a great blue star eat a number of little stars, and then cast them up.
— from International Weekly Miscellany of Literature, Art, and Science — Volume 1, No. 4, July 22, 1850 by Various

"Even if she knew," he objected, "she may be dead or in the stupor of death before he gets to her."
— from The Hungry Heart: A Novel by David Graham Phillips

This other reason was a kind of moral scruple against getting to know the secret mechanism of a soul, especially if such knowledge involved an appearance of intimacy with a person in whom he could never take more than a merely abstract, artistic interest.
— from Vanitas: Polite Stories by Vernon Lee

Finish by tying the E end of the string on the D end in several knots.
— from Things Worth Doing and How To Do Them by Lina Beard

This morning sent out Drewyer and one man to hunt, they returned in the evening, Drewyer having killed seven Elk; I scarcely know how we should subsist were it not for the exertions of this excellet hunter.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

She watched him eating in silence, knowing well he was counting the minutes till he could get away.
— from A Mummer's Wife by George Moore