Bring, therefore, with you our father, and your wives and children, and all your kindred, and remove your habitations hither; for it is not proper that the persons dearest to me should live remote from me, now my affairs are so prosperous, especially when they must endure five more years of famine.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

Nobody knows anything, really, you know, and a woman can guess a good deal nearer than a man.”
— from The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today by Charles Dudley Warner

‘But you have more frequent opportunities of meeting her than I have; and she loves you, I know, and reverences you too: there is nobody’s opinion she thinks so much of; and she says you have more sense than mamma.’
— from The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë

That's just your way, I know: A rogue you are, and you were always so.
— from Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Na, ímu na tung ákung kabáyù, All right, you can have that horse of mine.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

“Do you know, Avdotya Romanovna, you are awfully like your brother, in everything, indeed!”
— from Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

741 Still on your forward journey keep, And rest you by the northern deep, Where springing from the billows high Mount Somagiri 742 seeks the sky, And lightens with perpetual glow The sunless realm that lies below.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

“Ivan Karamazov, after receiving yesterday a communication of such importance from the real murderer, did not stir.
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I got hold of Kingsley, and read ‘Yeast,’ and I think some other novels of his, with great relish, and without sensibility to his Charles Readeish lapses from his art into the material of his art.
— from Literature and Life (Complete) by William Dean Howells

"You are a decoit who robs and kills, and thugs kill and rob; you are both disciples of this murderous creature, Kali."
— from Caste by William Alexander Fraser

I had always had a keen relish for his wit and fancy; I felt a peculiar interest in a man who, like myself, had started in life in the Navy; and one of the things poor Douglas prided himself on was his readiness to know and recognize young fellows fighting in his own profession.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 01, November, 1857 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various

The adjutant said: "Oh, by the way, Theodosia [the Mexican's name], your home is at La Glorieta; do you know Anton Romero?" "Yes, his son Manuel is here now, at the sutler's store."
— from The Border and the Buffalo: An Untold Story of the Southwest Plains The Bloody Border of Missouri and Kansas. The Story of the Slaughter of the Buffalo. Westward among the Big Game and Wild Tribes. A Story of Mountain and Plain by John R. Cook

It is open until you take your key and relock yourself out.
— from Warren Commission (13 of 26): Hearings Vol. XIII (of 15) by United States. Warren Commission

Item: that according to His Majesties gratious advise and the desire & expectacion of the whole state here, you draw the people from the excessive planting of tobacco and that, according to a late order of court in that behalfe made the thirteenth of June last, you suffer them not to plaint in one yeare alone one hundred waight tobacco the head, that is the person; and that you do provide by some generall course to bee held amongst them that they apply themselves to the soweing and planting of corne in good plentie that ther may bee alwaies a large proportion not onlie for their owne use, but store also for such as in great multitudes wee hope yearly to send; likewise by the same generall course to cause the generall inhabitants and households to enclose by pale & strong fences some fitting portion of our land for the keping of cowes, tame swine and poultrie; and for the making all due provitiones for the encrease & preservation of the bread of all sorts of cattle, and in particular kine, wherof wee thinke itt most unfitt that any should bee as yett killed and requier your vigilent care for the inhibiting thereof.
— from The Three Charters of the Virginia Company of London With Seven Related Documents; 1606-1621 by Virginia 350th Anniversary Celebration Corporation

'Mollie, dear,' she said kindly, 'I did not mean to be cross with you; but you do say such things, you know, and really you are old enough to know better'—and as Mollie only looked at her wonderingly—'oh, go away!—you are a dear little soul; but you talk as though you were a baby; no one is offended.
— from Lover or Friend by Rosa Nouchette Carey

[143] and myself, as you know, always read you promptly and carefully.
— from Charles Sumner: his complete works, volume 06 (of 20) by Charles Sumner

“Jolly lot they know about rowing!” yelled Cusack.
— from The Willoughby Captains by Talbot Baines Reed