Upon hearing his Name, I knew him to be a Gentle man of a considerable Fortune in this County, but greatly in Debt.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

for Beauty stands 220 In the admiration only of weak minds Led captive; cease to admire, and all her Flumes Fall flat and shrink into a trivial toy, At every sudden slighting quite abasht: Therefore with manlier objects we must try His constancy, with such as have more shew Of worth, of honour, glory, and popular praise; Rocks whereon greatest men have oftest wreck'd; Or that which only seems to satisfie Lawful desires of Nature, not beyond; 230 And now I know he hungers where no food Is to be found, in the wide Wilderness; The rest commit to me, I shall let pass No advantage, and his strength as oft assay. He ceas'd, and heard thir grant in loud acclaim; Then forthwith to him takes a chosen band Of Spirits likest to himself in guile To be at hand, and at his beck appear, If cause were to unfold some active Scene Of various persons each to know his part; 240 Then to the Desert takes with these his flight; Where still from shade to shade the Son of God After forty days fasting had remain'd, Now hungring first, and to himself thus said.
— from The Poetical Works of John Milton by John Milton

As Bois-Reymond says somewhere: “If Laplace’s ghost could build a homunculus according to the Leibnitzian theory, atom by atom and molecule by molecule, he might succeed in making it think, but not in knowing how it thinks.”
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

“Mas’r George is such a beautiful reader, now, I know he’ll stay to read for us,” said Aunt Chloe; “‘pears like ’t will be so much more interestin’.”
— from Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

That night I knew he had a false and thankless heart.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

“I’m determined,” said the son, “I’ll take some opportunity to affront him soon, now I know how poor he is, because of the airs he gave himself when he first came.”
— from Evelina, Or, the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World by Fanny Burney

For the first time I regret all the other kisses; now I know how much a kiss can mean.”
— from This Side of Paradise by F. Scott (Francis Scott) Fitzgerald

Pride and native integrity kept her from the worst temptations of such a life, but to the lesser ones she yielded, growing selfish, frivolous, and vain,--intent on her own advancement, and careless by what means she reached it.
— from Work: A Story of Experience by Louisa May Alcott

doth she think, if she can make vools of other volk, she can make one of me?—No, no, I know her better than thee dost.”
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

Sir John, thy tender lambkin now is King; Harry the Fifth's the man.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

But now I know her: if she be a traitor, Why so am I; we still have slept together, 070 Rose at an instant, learn’d, play’d, eat together, And wheresoe’er we went, like Juno’s swans, 072
— from The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [Vol. 2 of 9] by William Shakespeare

Now I know Harry intended to keep those two men on, and Tom Moran, who has a little half-cleared ranch back somewhere in the bush of Ontario, came out here tempted by higher wages.
— from Masters of the Wheat-Lands by Harold Bindloss

But now I know him better, I can understand that it must have been terrible for him, and he would be glad to exchange it for the interpretership, where he would have some chance of distinguishing himself; or, at any rate, of taking part in exciting events.
— from With Kitchener in the Soudan: A Story of Atbara and Omdurman by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

The crueltie of Penda and Cadwallo after their victorie, the Britains make no account of religion, Archbishop Pauline with queen Ethelburga flie out of Northumberland into Kent, honorable personages accompanie him thither, Romanus bishop of Rochester drowned, Pauline vndertaketh the charge of that see; Osrilie is king of Deira, and Eaufride king of Bernicia, both kings become apostatas, and fall frō christianitie to paganisme, then are both slaine within lesse than a yeeres space; Oswald is created king of Northumberland, his chiefs practise in feats of armes, Cadwallo king of Britaine hath him in contempt, Oswalds superstitious deuotion and intercession to God against his enimies; both kings ioine battell; Cadwallo is slaine, Penda king of Mercia his notable vertues linked with foule vices, he maketh warre on whome he will without exception.
— from Chronicles 1 (of 6): The Historie of England 5 (of 8) The Fift Booke of the Historie of England. by Raphael Holinshed

"On the contrary, madame; now I know he is what he is I will marry him."
— from A Diplomatic Woman by Huan Mee

A rifle bullet shatters his right leg, another kills his horse, and finally a third, fired by a negro, instantly kills him.
— from Hero Stories from American History For Elementary Schools by Francis Kingsley Ball

No, I know he wouldn't.
— from Our Nervous Friends — Illustrating the Mastery of Nervousness by Robert S. (Robert Sproul) Carroll

Nothing is known here about General Foster's order, of which you complain, beyond the fair presumption that it comes from General Grant, and that it has an object which, if you understood, you would be loath to frustrate.
— from The Papers and Writings of Abraham Lincoln — Volume 7: 1863-1865 by Abraham Lincoln

The April number of the Minerva had sold its entire edition before the tenth day of the month—a newsdealer in Keokuk had written that he could have sold fifty copies more if he had 'em.
— from Strictly Business: More Stories of the Four Million by O. Henry

"You're an old dear!" cried Nan, impulsively kissing his cheek.
— from The Gray Dawn by Stewart Edward White