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'Yes, ma'amselle, but I am, though; and if you knew as much as I do, you would not look so angry.
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe
Kala' Atishparastán , meaning as in the text.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa
While he painted, Knipp, and Mercer, and I, sang; and by and by comes Mrs. Pierce, with my name in her bosom for her Valentine, which will cost me money.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys
The housetops of his search should be half India; he would follow Kings and Ministers, as in the old days he had followed vakils and lawyers' touts across Lahore city for Mahbub Ali's sake.
— from Kim by Rudyard Kipling
I think that you know as much as I do now—probably more.
— from The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
'No, my lady,' replied Dorothee; 'if you knew as much as I do, you would not, for you would find there a dismal train of them; I often wish I could shut them out, but they will rise to my mind.
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe
" "And so you see 'twas beautiful ale, and I wished to value his kindness as much as I could, and not to be so ill-mannered as to drink only a thimbleful, which would have been insulting the man's generosity—" "True, Master Coggan, 'twould so," corroborated Mark Clark.
— from Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
And I don't know anything more about it until I came home again.
— from The Silver Box: A Comedy in Three Acts by John Galsworthy
He knew as much about it as Tadeo, but the published synopsis helped him and his fancy supplied the rest.
— from The Reign of Greed by José Rizal
"Of course you may know all about him: you may know as much as I who have lived and worked at his side, so to speak, for the last six years!
— from Brooke's Daughter: A Novel by Adeline Sergeant
I don't know anything more amazing in the history of the human mind than Marx prophecies.
— from A Man's World by Albert Edwards
“Who is her father?” asked I. “Knowing as much as I do, I may surely know more—know all.
— from Round the Sofa; vol. 2 by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
Mr. Crellan was there, and knows as much as I do, and so does Miss Garth.
— from Chronicles of Martin Hewitt by Arthur Morrison
“Probably the President knows as much about it as you and me, Zelotes,” she suggested.
— from The Portygee by Joseph Crosby Lincoln
You ought to know as much about it as any one, and if you think you understand the work, I'm satisfied."
— from Ward Hill, the Senior by Everett T. (Everett Titsworth) Tomlinson
Pretended he had not told me to, and then was tremendously kind and magnanimous about it.
— from The Carter Girls' Mysterious Neighbors by Nell Speed
When we have made the tour of Gigognan two or three times, thou wilt know as much as I do.”
— from Memoirs of Mistral by Frédéric Mistral
With a gleam of her former frankness she looked up at her interlocutor, "You do not know as much as I do, or you would understand the inutility of my presence at the trial which comes [Pg 23] off this morning.
— from Alone by Marion Harland
"I don't know as much as I ought about my ancestors," continued Sir Robert, who was doing himself a gross injustice.
— from Dodo: A Detail of the Day. Volumes 1 and 2 by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson
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