"Certainly; that is why I know it," returned the Scarecrow.
— from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

He has to choose which company he'll keep, I reckon.
— from Anne's House of Dreams by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

"All I know is," replied the captive, "that after having been in Constantinople two years, he escaped in the disguise of an Arnaut, in company with a Greek spy; but whether he regained his liberty or not I cannot tell, though I fancy he did, because a year afterwards I saw the Greek at Constantinople, though I was unable to ask him what the result of the journey was."
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Then Colman said, “The Easter which I keep, I received from my elders, who sent me hither as bishop; all our forefathers, men beloved of God, are known to have celebrated it after the same manner; and that it may not seem to any contemptible and worthy to be [pg 196] rejected, it is the same which the blessed John the Evangelist, the disciple specially beloved of our Lord, with all the churches over which he presided, is recorded to have celebrated.”
— from Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England by Bede, the Venerable, Saint

“Yes, sir, I know it,” replied the duke, dipping the quill in the ink.
— from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

There was a fair proportion of kindness in Raveloe; but it was often of a beery and bungling sort, and took the shape least allied to the complimentary and hypocritical.
— from Silas Marner by George Eliot

this is not customary among the nations of Indians with whom I have hitherto been acquainted I asked Cameahwait the reason why the hunters did not divide the meat among themselves; he said that meat was so scarce with them that the men who killed it reserved it for themselves and their own families.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

On one of his estates the three hundred serfs were liberated and became free agricultural laborers—this being one of the first examples of the kind in Russia.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

"I know—I know it," returned Uncle Nat, "but the first sight of it drove me from my senses, it is so like her.
— from Dora Deane; Or, The East India Uncle by Mary Jane Holmes

They arise not from any evil design, nor even any thing that can properly be called carelessness, on their part, but simply from the immaturity of their knowledge in respect to the properties and qualities of the material objects with which they have to deal.
— from Gentle Measures in the Management and Training of the Young Or, the Principles on Which a Firm Parental Authority May Be Established and Maintained, Without Violence or Anger, and the Right Development of the Moral and Mental Capacities Be Promoted by Methods in Harmony with the Structure and the Characteristics of the Juvenile Mind by Jacob Abbott

Then shall I taste the joys, which angels know, In regions calm, where tempests never rave, Nor clouds e'er float across the crystal skies.
— from A Book of Christian Sonnets by William Allen

The king held out his hand affectionately to his son, who kissed it reverently.
— from For Sceptre and Crown: A Romance of the Present Time. Vol. 1 (of 2) by Gregor Samarow

He is knowing in retrospect, and ignorant in foresight.
— from Notes to Shakespeare, Volume III: The Tragedies by Samuel Johnson

"I know it," replied Master Raymond.
— from Dulcibel: A Tale of Old Salem by Henry Peterson

A jacket, rolled up, was kept in readiness to be thrust into the first opening made; while as the thousand fins audibly patted against our slender planks, we felt nervously enough; as if treading upon thin, crackling ice.
— from Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I by Herman Melville

The elephants which had hitherto been kept in reserve were brought up to meet the cavalry; the horses took fright at them; the soldiers, not knowing how to encounter the huge beasts, turned and fled; the masses of disordered horsemen and the pursuing elephants at length broke the compact ranks of the Roman infantry, and the elephants in concert with the excellent Thessalian cavalry wrought great slaughter among the fugitives.
— from The History of Rome, Book II From the Abolition of the Monarchy in Rome to the Union of Italy by Theodor Mommsen

Running things, you know, is rather in my line.
— from Brenda's Bargain: A Story for Girls by Helen Leah Reed

In order, therefore, to remedy the inconveniences above-mentioned, he proposed that such gaol should be built and kept in repair out of the County rate, which he said may be done without injury to the County at large, for this reason, that there is but one rate at present for Middlesex and Westminster, near one-third of which is paid by the latter since the increase of buildings there; that this proportion is much greater than the expences required by the Act for County rates would subject Westminster to; and he added, that the gaol, called the House of Correction, Westminster, is repaired by the Magistrates of Westminster, and the expence is paid by virtue of their orders on the Page 201
— from Anecdotes of the Manners and Customs of London during the Eighteenth Century; Vol. 1 (of 2) Including the Charities, Depravities, Dresses, and Amusements etc. by James Peller Malcolm