I, knowing naught, am free from blame.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

He was requested by Dr. Burney to sing; rather unfortunately, it would appear, for the company, which included Johnson and the Grevilles, was by no means composed of musical enthusiasts, and Mrs. Thrale, in particular, “knew not a flat from a sharp, nor a crotchet from a quaver.”
— from The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay — Volume 1 by Fanny Burney

It is a blind goose that knoweth not a fox from a fern-bush, and a strange temerity that mistaketh smoke for provender.
— from Old Friends: Essays in Epistolary Parody by Andrew Lang

What necessity there is for this address I cannot, indeed, discover, because I know not any foundation for suspicion of either negligence or treachery, which have been both insinuated in this debate.
— from The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. Volume 10 Parlimentary Debates I by Samuel Johnson

Lastly, Kelly never asked favours for himself or for others.
— from Gerald Fitzgerald, the Chevalier: A Novel by Charles James Lever

And the strangest thing of all was that he knew, with a strange consciousness for others, what to do, what to say, how to act; that he had known, unconsciously, as a child, when he had spoken words of consolation to his father, to his mother; later, consciously, with a salutary and sacred knowledge, not alone for father and mother but for others, for so many, for so many!
— from Dr. Adriaan by Louis Couperus

[Pg 67] He had the good fortune to know not a few Frasers in Canada, and he could honestly say that none of them, so far as he knew, ever did anything that in any way tarnished the good name of the Clan.
— from The Clan Fraser in Canada: Souvenir of the First Annual Gathering by Alexander Fraser

"And where——" "Booked through to Konopisht not a foot from the back of your head in the adjoining compartment——"
— from The Secret Witness by George Gibbs