And within a while he met with Sir Ector de Maris, and he knew not King Arthur nor Sir Tristram, and he desired to joust with one of them.
— from Le Morte d'Arthur: Volume 1 by Malory, Thomas, Sir

Mebbe it might have been natural for him, but ’t would have come desp’t hard on me, as has known him from a baby; but I’ve seen Mas’r, and I begin ter feel sort o’ reconciled to the Lord’s will now.
— from Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

gentlemen, since the villain compels me by his unkindness, to expose myself and him, know that this betrayer, under the specious pretence of honourable addresses, won my heart, and taking advantage of his conquest, robbed me of my virgin treasure, and afterwards abandoned me to my fate!
— from The Adventures of Roderick Random by T. (Tobias) Smollett

" He was a clever business man, and he knew what he was saying.
— from A Little Princess Being the whole story of Sara Crewe now told for the first time by Frances Hodgson Burnett

I went there and found two thirds of the men and horses knocked out, two guns smashed, and no supports at all.”
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

ye know well that he hath done much for me, and he knoweth many things, and when he is afore you, I would that ye prayed him heartily of his best advice.
— from Le Morte d'Arthur: Volume 1 by Malory, Thomas, Sir

While I was undoing my trousers, I observed that Miss Frankland had quite lifted up her outer frock, and had sat down, evidently intending to flog me across her knee.
— from The Romance of Lust: A classic Victorian erotic novel by Anonymous

I was in a conflict of mind, and hardly knew what I was about.
— from The American Indians Their History, Condition and Prospects, from Original Notes and Manuscripts by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft

Muriel, he recognized, belonged to a section of English society which was very lax in its morals; and he knew quite well that, in the darkness of the desert on the memorable night of their return from Sakkâra, she had been entirely carried away by her love.
— from Burning Sands by Arthur E. P. Brome (Arthur Edward Pearse Brome) Weigall

Fleuriot told me all he knew of her dreadful history.
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac

The fields and the woods were fresh, bright, and laden with dew, and the morning air had kissed the clouds from the sky.
— from The Forest Schoolmaster by Peter Rosegger

Mr. Coon said that when Mr. Dog said, 'Tell me another,' he knew he was in a good-humor, and that he felt better and better himself.
— from The Hollow Tree Snowed-In Book Being a continuation of stories about the Hollow Tree and Deep Woods people by Albert Bigelow Paine

He may also have known how hesitant Jean V had been, for fear of rousing the wrath of the nobility of his duchy, about yielding to the objurgations of the Bishop and raising troops for the pursuit and arrest.
— from Là-bas by J.-K. (Joris-Karl) Huysmans

Yes, many, as Heaven knows, who heard the involuntary matin prayer, offered in gratefulness of heart, upon my knees, and in the open fields, where no eye but one could look upon the worshipper, and call the fitness of the time and place in question.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 331, May, 1843 by Various

After that she had been motherless and had kept house for a shiftless and surly father.
— from The Code of the Mountains by Charles Neville Buck

I know he loves me; and he knows I love him, and forgive him anything that was wrong.
— from Abington Abbey: A Novel by Archibald Marshall