In 1818 they ceded all their lands in that State and were assigned to a reservation in Kansas, where they were joined by a considerable body that had emigrated to Missouri, in company with a band of Shawano, some years before, by permission of the Spanish government.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

Master has got the tray all ready, I know.'
— from North and South by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

You may cease to... all right, I know I am not to say that.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

How could that army—which had found abundant supplies in Moscow and had trampled them underfoot instead of keeping them, and on arriving at Smolénsk had looted provisions instead of storing them—how could that army recuperate in Kalúga province, which was inhabited by Russians such as those who lived in Moscow, and where fire had the same property of consuming what was set ablaze?
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

When they are rich in knowledge they won't mind how empty their purses are; they will feel themselves equal to the best in the land.
— from The Doctor's Daughter by Vera

The agent reiterated, "I know the man standing there as well as I know any man living.
— from Isaac T. Hopper: A True Life by Lydia Maria Child

"A lady, my dear," was the answering reproach, "Is known by her carriage , but not by her coach !"
— from Bentley's Miscellany, Volume I by Various

One of the adjoining rooms is known as the Chart-room.
— from The Wreck of the Titan or, Futility by Morgan Robertson

Nearly every time the audience roared I knew it was over something that would be condemned in the morning (justly, too) but must be left in—for low comedies are written for the drawing-room, the kitchen and the stable, and if you cut out the kitchen and the stable the drawing-room can't support the play by itself.
— from Mark Twain's Letters — Volume 3 (1876-1885) by Mark Twain

"No indeed," was the affectionate reply; "I know that can never be, with such a brother, and," with a playful smile, "such a sister as I hope soon to have."
— from Mary Seaham: A Novel. Volume 3 of 3 by Mrs. (Elizabeth Caroline) Grey

Then the King, who, although he let himself be tossed to and fro as light as a ball, was firmer than a rock in keeping to what he had once said, stamped with his feet, and exclaimed, "After all you have done, do you fail at the last?
— from Stories from the Pentamerone by Giambattista Basile

This was what came (in his own language) instead of his dream of a New France beyond the Mississippi, beyond the American republic: "I know the full value of Louisiana, and I have been desirous of repairing the fault of the French negotiator who abandoned it in 1763.
— from The French in the Heart of America by John H. (John Huston) Finley