"Hang it," he would say (or perhaps use a still stronger expression out of his simple vocabulary), "before I was married I didn't care what bills I put my name to, and so long as Moses would wait or Levy would renew for three months, I kept on never minding.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

MEGILLUS: I know of none.
— from Laws by Plato

As to me I know of nothing else but miracles, Whether I walk the streets of Manhattan, Or dart my sight over the roofs of houses toward the sky, Or wade with naked feet along the beach just in the edge of the water, Or stand under trees in the woods, Or talk by day with any one I love, or sleep in the bed at night with any one I love, Or sit at table at dinner with the rest, Or look at strangers opposite me riding in the car, Or watch honey-bees busy around the hive of a summer forenoon, Or animals feeding in the fields, Or birds, or the wonderfulness of insects in the air, Or the wonderfulness of the sundown, or of stars shining so quiet and bright, Or the exquisite delicate thin curve of the new moon in spring; These with the rest, one and all, are to me miracles, The whole referring, yet each distinct and in its place.
— from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

There was no evidence of it in me; I know of no influence it had in anything I said or did.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

92 CHAPTER VIII THE LIFE AND DEATH OF MOSES I know of nothing in the way of affection and loyalty among animals that can exceed that of my devoted Moses.
— from Gorillas & Chimpanzees by R. L. (Richard Lynch) Garner

Hero replied, “They know that do accuse me; I know of none.”
— from The Chautauquan, Vol. 03, April 1883 by Chautauqua Institution

Excepting that too few plants were measured, I know of nothing else to cause distrust in the result.
— from The Effects of Cross & Self-Fertilisation in the Vegetable Kingdom by Charles Darwin

I would use every argument by which you might be most liberally affected towards it, for I know not of any public p. 14 institution which has so purely and directly for its object the temporal and spiritual interests of mankind; I know of no institution where so large a sum can be so well used, and which no money can be well misused, whilst the simple object of the society is acted upon, viz.
— from Substance of a Sermon on the Bible Society preached at Beccles, October 29th, and at St. Mary's Church Bungay, on Friday, Dec. 1st, 1815 by Francis Cunningham

If the milk is kept over night, such airing and cooling are absolutely indispensable.
— from Hints on Dairying by T. D. (Thomas Day) Curtis

George Q. Cannon, also of the Mormon Presidency, the ruling spirit of the Mormons, said that he did not know whether any record of plural marriage is kept or not, although it is said that that book is one of the most important books they have.
— from The Mormon Puzzle, and How to Solve It by R. W. Beers

Of all the unlimited powers possessed by irresponsible man, I know of nothing at all equal to his, who, mero motu , of his own free will and caprice, can at any moment call a meeting of the dread body at whose head he stands, assemble the highest dignitaries of the land—archbishops and bishops, chancellors, chief barons, and chief remembrancers—to listen to the minute anatomy of a periwinkle’s mustachios, or some singular provision in the physiology of a crab’s breeches-pocket: all of whom, luto non obstante , must leave their peaceful homes and warm hearths to “assist” at a meeting in which, nine cases out of ten, they take as much interest as a Laplander does in the [142] health of the Grand Lama; or Mehemet Ali in the proceedings of Father Mathew.
— from Nuts and Nutcrackers by Charles James Lever

"I would like to be married in Kamtchatka, or Nova Zembla—or the worst of those places whose very names suggest uncomfortableness.
— from All along the River: A Novel by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon