I really think I shall take it back; add some Stanzas which I kept out for fear of being too strong; print fifty copies and give away; one to you, who won’t like it neither.
— from Letters of Edward FitzGerald, in Two Volumes. Vol. 1 by Edward FitzGerald

This, and the hole by my place is the only water I know of for forty miles round.
— from The Moving Finger by Mary Gaunt

“From what I know of Fanny Frankland, I am inclined to believe that whatever she says is truth.
— from Tales and Novels — Volume 02 Popular Tales by Maria Edgeworth

What I know of first Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Wilderness, etc., makes clear to me that there has been, and is yet, a total lack of science in elastic adaptation to the needs of the wounded after a battle.
— from The Wound Dresser A Series of Letters Written from the Hospitals in Washington during the War of the Rebellion by Walt Whitman

Along the principal thoroughfare and parallel side streets are many pleasant dwellings, culminating with one of the cross streets in headquarters comprising a good hotel kept by a genial landlord, several stores, the post-office, two churches, and a school-house which is kept open for full and regular terms.
— from The Heart of the Alleghanies; or, Western North Carolina by Wilbur Gleason Zeigler

It seems to me that the statement of a fifth century writer, who is known only from fragments, requires stronger confirmation than this before it can be accepted as evidence for the chronological relationship of events which took place some seven centuries before his time.
— from The Heroic Age by H. Munro (Hector Munro) Chadwick