A faithful servant often hears and sees more than his employers suspect, and I had the confidence of the padrona's foster-sister, who is now dead; but at that time Susanna knew everything that concerned her mistress.
— from The Burgomaster's Wife — Volume 02 by Georg Ebers

Catie was able to look out for herself, Catie's mother explained contentedly to her new neighbours, and she knew enough to come home, when she was hungry.
— from The Brentons by Anna Chapin Ray

A faithful servant often hears and sees more than his employers suspect, and I had the confidence of the padrona’s foster-sister, who is now dead; but at that time Susanna knew everything that concerned her mistress.
— from The Burgomaster's Wife — Complete by Georg Ebers

She knew enough to compass his destruction at the hands of Andronicus if she betrayed him, but he did not believe she would do that, and he wondered what she was driving at, for his experience of women's ways was small.
— from Arethusa by F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford

She rarely left her place in the armchair in the bow window in the sitting-room, but it seemed as if her little eyes possessed the power of piercing walls and doors, for she knew everything that concerned him, even his greatest secrets, which he believed he had carefully concealed.
— from In the Fire of the Forge: A Romance of Old Nuremberg — Volume 04 by Georg Ebers

The Scottish knight endeavoured to cut his way through the Infidels, and in all probability would have succeeded, had he not again turned to rescue Sir William Saint Clair of Roslin, whom he saw in jeopardy.
— from Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers and Other Poems by William Edmondstoune Aytoun

To the mind of the Spanish knight, eager to continue his youthful prowess and the enjoyment of the adjuncts of power and authority already achieved, the belief, thus strengthened by concurrence of a tradition in the New World, seemed an authentic reality, and the sufficient foundation for great labor and sacrifice.
— from The History of Saint Augustine, Florida by William W. (William Whitwell) Dewhurst