In the spring of 1834 Jacob Anderson Slogvig, Knud Anderson Slogvig, Gudmund Haugaas, Thorsten Olson Bjaaland, Nels Thompson, [31] Andrew (Endre) Dahl, and Kleng Peerson left for La Salle County; they became, therefore, as far as we know, the first Norwegian settlers in Illinois, and indeed in the Northwest, barring Ingebret Narvig, who had located in Michigan the year before.
— from A History of Norwegian Immigration to the United States From the Earliest Beginning down to the Year 1848 by George T. (George Tobias) Flom

Towards evening, she heard at the grating the flutter of a swan's wing, it was her youngest brother—he had found his sister, and she sobbed for joy, although she knew that very likely this would be the last night she would have to live.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

Here is such patchery, such juggling, and such knavery.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

That didn't sound like John, and she knew he was looking up at her with the straightforward look that she had always been ready to meet and answer with one as frank till now.
— from Little Women; Or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy by Louisa May Alcott

"Well, dear, what is the 'dem'd total', as Mr. Mantalini says?" That didn't sound like John, and she knew he was looking up at her with the straightforward look that she had always been ready to meet and answer with one as frank till now.
— from Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

It really was, to James, as she knew very well.
— from Love and Lucy by Maurice Hewlett

She insisted upon Philip's changing his wet shoes for slippers when the boys came home at six o'clock; she gave little Jim a sisterly kiss.
— from Saturday's Child by Kathleen Thompson Norris

So he jogged along steady, keeping her full and by, and letting her take the seas the best way she liked them.
— from The White Wolf and Other Fireside Tales by Arthur Quiller-Couch

All these things ought to make an incredible mixture, but she is quite at her ease with them all: her most foolish eccentricities leave her mind quite clear, just as she keeps her eyes and hands sure when she goes whirling along in her motor.
— from Jean-Christophe Journey's End by Romain Rolland

Madge knew Curly John, and she knew him for a man who never made idle threats.
— from A Woman at Bay; Or, A Fiend in Skirts by Nicholas (House name) Carter

She had a passion for Jethro, and she knew that Jethro reciprocated it.
— from Dulcibel: A Tale of Old Salem by Henry Peterson

Then he pointed to me, and to the tin box, with 'Jean Antoine Stromboli Kosnapulski' painted on it, which lay upon the deck with other pièces de conviction , ready to be used when needed.
— from Stromboli and the Guns by Francis Henry Gribble