Jo knew that "young Laurence" was regarded as a most eligible parti by worldly mammas, was much smiled upon by their daughters, and flattered enough by ladies of all ages to make a coxcomb of him; so she watched him rather jealously, fearing he would be spoilt, and rejoiced more than she confessed to find that he still believed in modest girls.
— from Little Women; Or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy by Louisa May Alcott

La vintro jam komenciĝas , the winter is already beginning .
— from A Complete Grammar of Esperanto by Ivy Kellerman Reed

The ambassador of Justinian knelt; the Negus raised him from the ground, embraced Nonnosus, kissed the seal, perused the letter, accepted the Roman alliance, and, brandishing his weapons, denounced implacable war against the worshipers of fire.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

I asked Caddy if Mrs. Jellyby knew that her wedding-day was fixed.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

Alarmed at the sight, he went to Job Knowles, the sexton, for the keys.
— from Yorkshire Oddities, Incidents, and Strange Events by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould

[115] tells you,"—and Jenny knew that her supreme effort had not been wasted.
— from Ten Girls from History by Kate Dickinson Sweetser

Paul and John knew the mind of Christ in this striking quality of it better than later generations.
— from Religion and the War by Yale University. Divinity School

The old man's voice trembled, and he walked into the house and shut the door; and Job knew the talk was over for that night.
— from The Transformation of Job A Tale of the High Sierras by Frederick Vining Fisher

On the margin of the printed copy is his note: “Frequent letters written by Johne Knox to decline from idolatrie.”
— from Life of John Knox, Fifth Edition, Vol. 1 of 2 Containing Illustrations of the History of the Reformation in Scotland by Thomas M'Crie

IN CHESTER CO., PA., BY J. K. TOWNSEND.
— from Audubon and His Journals, Volume 2 (of 2) by John James Audubon

He then applied to J. Kent; the progress of the complaint was soon arrested; and a permanent cure was accomplished.
— from Observations on the Causes, Symptoms, and Nature of Scrofula or King's Evil, Scurvy, and Cancer With Cases Illustrative of a Peculiar Mode of Treatment by John Kent

For instance, good Deacon Jones, who slept all through Parson Primrose's sermon, and told Deacon Brown, who didn't sleep, that the Parson's doctrine was correct; Prof. Blather, who hitches himself to the tail of every high-flying kite, hoping thereby to be brought before the popular eyes; old Mrs. Peacock, who still persists in being young, making admirers, mincing through her spavined paces, leering with her faded eyes out of that painted face, when all Japonicadom knows there is not a genuine feather about her.
— from Letters of Peregrine Pickle by George P. (George Putnam) Upton

Every fair minded Jew knows this, and because he knows it he would rather not talk about it or hear it talked about.
— from The Immigrant Tide, Its Ebb and Flow by Edward Alfred Steiner

Joey knew that she had crossed no ditch on her way down from the road; she began to feel a little pricking of uneasiness.
— from Head of the Lower School by Dorothea Moore