Being a rank materialist myself, I know 'em like a book.
— from Black Oxen by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton

You are wrong," said the artist; "as for me, I keep everything, letters and hair.
— from Gerfaut — Volume 2 by Charles de Bernard

Methinks I know every loophole and gate by heart.
— from In the Days of Chivalry: A Tale of the Times of the Black Prince by Evelyn Everett-Green

"I hope yo' hain't kilt em—'cause he belongs to Cap Lutts's boy—to me——" "I kilt em, Lem—I had t'."
— from The Red Debt: Echoes from Kentucky by Everett MacDonald

You like the English sort of concert gown better?" "About gowns," said McKann, "I know even less than about music.
— from Youth and the Bright Medusa by Willa Cather

With love to you and the marquis, I kiss each line, praying for happiness for you and for him.
— from D'Ri and I: A Tale of Daring Deeds in the Second War with the British. Being the Memoirs of Colonel Ramon Bell, U.S.A. by Irving Bacheller

ku iho, e lohe mua makou i Kauai, e lawe ana
— from The Hawaiian Romance Of Laieikawai by S. N. Haleole