my watchman stented, If poets e'er are represented; I ken if that your sword were wanted, Ye'd lend a hand; But when there's ought to say anent it, Ye're at a stand.
— from Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Robert Burns

The court of the Arches is kept in this church, and taketh name of the place, not the place of the court; but of what antiquity or continuation that court hath there continued I cannot learn.
— from The Survey of London by John Stow

His observations were based on two eclipses of the moon in Kamchatka in the years 1728 and 1729, [19] and although they were not entirely accurate, they vary so little, that the general position of the country was established.
— from Vitus Bering: the Discoverer of Bering Strait by Peter Lauridsen

All that is known is that Murkin was confined to his bed for a fortnight after his acquaintance with Blistanov, and that to the words “I am a man in delicate health, rheumatic” he took to adding, “I am a wounded man. . . .”
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

I know, indeed, that sons of thine have died In Lissa’s waters, by the mountain-side Of Aspromonte, on Novara’s plain,— Nor have thy children died for thee in vain:
— from Poems, with The Ballad of Reading Gaol by Oscar Wilde

s pulls, and inlaid keyholes imitate the style of the domestic chest of drawers of the period 1790 to 1810—undoubtedly, features included by the manufacturer to appeal to a gentleman of refined taste.
— from Woodworking Tools 1600-1900 by Peter C. Welsh

All I know is that the torture of that half-minute nearly turned my brain.
— from She by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

You see the Goodness of the Master even in the old House-dog, and in a grey Pad that is kept in the Stable with great Care and Tenderness out of Regard to his past Services, tho' he has been useless for several Years.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

Abundant deposits of sulphur have also been found in Kamtchatka in the neighbourhood of the volcanoes.
— from The Principles of Chemistry, Volume II by Dmitry Ivanovich Mendeleyev

Not only this is kept in the Scotch dialect, but the former is used, these occurring as the tane, the tother , or the tane, the tither ; for example,— We ca' her sometimes the tane , sometimes the tother .
— from An English Grammar by James Witt Sewell

For you shall fynde some whych tarye long and take great paine in knowyng & ioynynge their letters & in those fyrst rudimẽtes of grammer, whẽ they wyl quyckely lerne greater thyngs.
— from The Education of Children by Desiderius Erasmus

I felt that I could spring upon him and strangle him, for I knew instinctively that he was my wife’s enemy—the man of whom she lived in deadly fear.
— from Whoso Findeth a Wife by William Le Queux

I know it now, and I knew it then;
— from He Knew He Was Right by Anthony Trollope

Now a thing is knowable in the degree in which it is; hence since this is the essence of evil that it is the privation of good, by the fact that God knows good things, He knows evil things also; as by light is known darkness.
— from Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint

“All I know is that I was told to pilot these two men to your shop.
— from The Tale of Timber Town by Alfred A. (Alfred Augustus) Grace

Habitually the young chief and I kept in the advance—our sisters riding close behind us.
— from Osceola the Seminole; or, The Red Fawn of the Flower Land by Mayne Reid

In cultivating I keep the surface level, as they do better if kept in this way than if they are hilled up.
— from Prairie Farmer, Vol. 56: No. 4, January 26, 1884 A Weekly Journal for the Farm, Orchard and Fireside by Various