I stammered out, 'It was not my fault, uncle:' 'No; I know that,' he replied.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

Átù unyà ning ihalublak kun makakwarta ta, This bamboo fence is just temporary.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

I have experimented and experimented until now I know it never does run uphill, except in the dark.
— from Eve's Diary, Complete by Mark Twain

All night I scarcely slept for thinking, and in the morning, somehow, I knew; and all day I have been learning much more, until now I know you--for the man you are."
— from A Master of Deception by Richard Marsh

In Syria, at Megiddo I could work undisturbed; now I know what the organ is that thinks.
— from Uarda : a Romance of Ancient Egypt — Complete by Georg Ebers

Maybe they’re tired of protecting us, and disgusted with our blunders and our ignorance, but they won’t join you nor nobody, nor uphold nobody in killing us off that way.”
— from Other Fools and Their Doings, or, Life among the Freedmen by H. N. K. (Harriet Newell Kneeland) Goff

“I shall ask Dorothy to sing two songs for us; Nancy, I know, will be willing to do a fancy dance; Nina and Jeanette are learning a new duet for the piano, and I should be pleased to have that for another number on our programme.
— from Dorothy Dainty's Gay Times by Amy Brooks