For, let me tell you, he is known everywhere that men have been.
— from Dracula by Bram Stoker

The boy's mother passed away during his childhood; little about her is known except the revealing fact that she was an ardent devotee of Lord Shiva, 32-7 scripturally designated as the "King of Yogis.
— from Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda

In my native city there was an old maid who had, I knew even as a boy, remained single because of unrequited love of my grandfather.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

“And I,” replied the visitor, changing his idiom, “know enough of English to keep up the conversation.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

This much, however, I know exceedingly well; you were very kind to me as long as we Achaeans were fighting before Troy, but from the day on which we went on board ship after having sacked the city of Priam, and heaven dispersed us—from that day, Minerva, I saw no more of you, and cannot ever remember your coming to my ship to help me in a difficulty; I had to wander on sick and sorry till the gods delivered me from evil and I reached the city of the Phaeacians, where you encouraged me and took me into the town.
— from The Odyssey Rendered into English prose for the use of those who cannot read the original by Homer

But had I known even everything I have since discovered, I should still as readily have given my consent as I did and was obliged to do, unless I had exceeded the offer of M. Grimm.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

"Yes," said he, "I know enough, and will contrive to save myself."
— from Household Tales by Brothers Grimm by Wilhelm Grimm

Enough of woes already have I known; Enough my master's sorrows and my own.
— from The Odyssey by Homer

But the Midlands were well roused, and, if a Yorkist chronicler is to be believed, the Queen "had it proclaimed in Cheshire and Lancashire that if so the King had the victory of the Earls, then every man should take what he might, and make havoc in Kent, Essex, Middlesex, Surrey, and Sussex."
— from Warwick, the Kingmaker by Charles Oman

With her intimate knowledge every movement in the adjoining room was as perceptible as if she had seen it.
— from The Sheik: A Novel by E. M. (Edith Maude) Hull

"What have I known else?
— from Sir Tom by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

You will be all day on it, I expect, if Mr. Home is kind enough to take you.
— from The Angel of Pain by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson

Take hold of my hand; I know every step of the way."
— from Blue Bonnet in Boston; or, Boarding-School Days at Miss North's by Lela Horn Richards

I told her I didn't favor RHUBARB as a steady drink, but I hoped I knew enough to give it when 'twas necessary.”
— from Cap'n Eri by Joseph Crosby Lincoln

So the clodhopping Collector goes to Naini Tal or Darjiling, where he is known either as Ellenborough Higgins, or Higgins of Gharibpur in territorial fashion.
— from Twenty-One Days in India, or, the Tour Of Sir Ali Baba K.C.B.; and, the Teapot Series by George Aberigh-Mackay

"Hell, I know Em Crawford's not mixed up in any hold-up, let alone a damned cowardly murder.
— from Gunsight Pass: How Oil Came to the Cattle Country and Brought a New West by William MacLeod Raine

—And here, I know, Eugenius, thou wilt smile at the remembrance of a short dialogue which passed betwixt us the moment I was going to set out:—I must tell it here.
— from A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy by Laurence Sterne

Though I couldn't see him, I knew exactly how he would be looking at Ivor, his keen grey eyes narrowed, his clean-shaven lips drawn in, the long, well-shaped hand, of which he is said to be vain, toying with the pale Malmaison pink he always wears in his buttonhole.
— from The Powers and Maxine by A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson