But this evening, he had no sooner ingeniously knotted his string fast round his bit of pork, twisted the string according to rule over his door-key, passed it through the handle, and made it fast on the hanger, than he remembered that a piece of very fine twine was indispensable to his "setting up" a new piece of work in his loom early in the morning.
— from Silas Marner by George Eliot

After the Story “I know,” he said, after a pause, “that all this will be absolutely incredible to you, but to me the one incredible thing is that I am here tonight in this old familiar room looking into your friendly faces and telling you these strange adventures.”
— from The Time Machine by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

For many minutes Duncan succeeded in keeping his senses on the alert, and alive to every moaning sound that arose from the forest.
— from The Last of the Mohicans; A narrative of 1757 by James Fenimore Cooper

The two as they walked to the station in Kensington High Street could not help thinking that this way of putting it was lofty.
— from The Enchanted April by Elizabeth Von Arnim

"How should I know his secrets?"
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

Of course I'm fond of Squire, seeing I know him since he was a little kid—and we was always great, me and mine, for holding on to the Family."
— from Dr. Rumsey's Patient: A Very Strange Story by L. T. Meade

Her whole time was spent in keeping her son's house and superintending the one servant; she never went abroad, and took the air in the little garden entered through the glass door of the sitting-room.
— from Poor Relations by Honoré de Balzac

No doubt, meanwhile, Thomas Baker's one consolation in life is the reflection that he did succeed in killing his stepfather; and he will be very ready to give ear to an older and more experienced man who tells him that the only difference between good and bad in the world is that those are called good who have power over those who are called bad; and that the only way for him to get even for his wrongs is to become a crook—and not be a fool!
— from The Subterranean Brotherhood by Julian Hawthorne

You see, I know him so well.
— from The Fallen Leaves by Wilkie Collins

So I knew his search had not succeeded.
— from The Prairie Mother by Arthur Stringer

“Stop it, Kid,” he says, “stop it.
— from The Boy Scout and Other Stories for Boys by Richard Harding Davis

Sure I know her, sure 'tis she, The maid Antigone.
— from Plays of Sophocles: Oedipus the King; Oedipus at Colonus; Antigone by Sophocles