I can finish my visit here, you know, at any time; or I hope you will come to me.
— from Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

Ing. VVhy, Robinſon would ha’ told him, You know.
— from The Devil is an Ass by Ben Jonson

“Tell me how you know,” my friend simply repeated.
— from The Turn of the Screw by Henry James

Might I ask how you know, and how much you know?'
— from The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

" "One isn't obliged to ask everyone to one's house, you know; has he ever asked me to his?
— from Swann's Way by Marcel Proust

Come, despatch her.— You kept her counsel; now you shall keep ours.
— from The Duchess of Malfi by John Webster

"How you keep a-mumbling!" said Arabella.
— from Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy

No one, however, yet knew the real state of affairs at school, and they hoped I would soon see the error of my ways in this case as I had in my former craze for poetry.
— from My Life — Volume 1 by Richard Wagner

‘If you heerd,’ said Mr. Peggotty, ‘owt of what passed between Mas’r Davy and me, th’ night when it snew so hard, you know as I have been—wheer not—fur to seek my dear niece.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

That was how he came to leave his club, and some of his darts too, as he tells me, which I dare say helped to put you on our track; though how you kept on it is more than I can tell.
— from The Sign of the Four by Arthur Conan Doyle

"It is a pity, Francisco, for had you known him, the statement that, moved by curiosity, you followed him and saw him into that hut, would have been sufficient without your entering into the other matter.
— from The Lion of Saint Mark: A Story of Venice in the Fourteenth Century by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

"You can help him, you know that, and you must; or we will bundle you out of this and send you back to Constantinople."
— from The Thin Red Line; and Blue Blood by Arthur Griffiths

In coming to my house, you knew that Louise was Irene.
— from The Cross of Berny; Or, Irene's Lovers by Girardin, Emile de, Mme

We all wonder how you could have written the story, giving all the circumstances, and even the conversations that took place, so correctly; but I remember, when I was at your house, you kept me talking, and wrote down nearly every thing I said; besides which, I find there was a good deal more in my journal and letters than I supposed, when I consented to let you have them and make what use of them you pleased.
— from The Drummer Boy by J. T. (John Townsend) Trowbridge

They will kill me!" "Why, there's nothing to harm you," Keith replied.
— from The Frontiersman: A Tale of the Yukon by H. A. (Hiram Alfred) Cody

(People can die of broken hearts, you know, Beryl.)
— from The Girls of Chequertrees by Marion St. John Webb

“Klearchus, Proxenus, and all you Greeks (said he), you know not what you are doing.
— from History of Greece, Volume 09 (of 12) by George Grote

The old man is in very failing health, you know.
— from Mr. Scarborough's Family by Anthony Trollope

Have you known your father?" "No." "Do you know if he is still alive, where he is?" "Mother told me father had gone to America, to make a large fortune for himself and for us; but he has not yet returned.
— from Erick and Sally by Johanna Spyri