So that when thought seeketh what the sense may conceive under this, and saith to itself, "It is no intellectual form, as life, or justice; because it is the matter of bodies; nor object of sense, because being invisible, and without form, there was in it no object of sight or sense";—while man's thought thus saith to itself, it may endeavour either to know it, by being ignorant of it; or to be ignorant, by knowing it.
— from The Confessions of St. Augustine by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

So says Ottar:— "Olaf, great stem of kings, is brave— Bold in the fight, bold on the wave.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

I knew it before, but I only see it now.…
— from The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

c. A clergyman informed me that he knew of a case in which a man, receiving back his child after christening, kissed it, and said, ‘I never kissed it before, because I knew it was not a child of God; but now that it is, I love it dearly.’
— from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway

Upon this, the victorious Philosopher says: “You will soon break the bow, if you always keep it bent; but if you loosen it, it will be fit for use when you want it.”
— from The Fables of Phædrus Literally translated into English prose with notes by Phaedrus

Well that isn't the name I know it by; but if the lady prefers it, why—— Mrs. Toov.
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 105 December 16, 1893 by Various

He adored her, and she knew it, but because it was impossible for his features to wear any expression lightly, the natural gravity of his look deepened to a thundercloud.
— from One Man in His Time by Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow

She had known it before, but it was hard to hear the sentence embodied in words.
— from The Flying Mercury by Eleanor M. (Eleanor Marie) Ingram

On first hearing that the British soldiers were kept in Boston by ill-equipped and badly trained Americans, one of these officers cried: "What! can ten thousand Yankee Doodles shut up five thousand soldiers of the king?
— from The Story of the Thirteen Colonies by H. A. (Hélène Adeline) Guerber

No gilded canopy obscures the figures from the light, so royal is their simplicity, and when the radiance of the eastern sun lights up the vaulted ceiling, knitted into broad bands into bosses, leaves, and borders, and pictures, golden retablos and sculptured saints stand out on the subdued splendour of the walls, the effect is as a scene of actual history, enacted in what was once the great mosque of the Moors, conquered by the arms of these dead sovereigns ( Los Reyes Catolicos ) and converted into this Christian sepulchre, as a triumph to last as long as the world stands.
— from Old Court Life in Spain, vol. 2/2 by Frances Minto Dickinson Elliot

Denton seemed quite cut up, and said he hadn’t known it before, but it must be a great family trouble to the Fishers.
— from The Cock-House at Fellsgarth by Talbot Baines Reed

To call that city-skirting stream romantic is to provoke the derision of those who know it best, but it was romantic that night—to me.
— from Materfamilias by Ada Cambridge

Were it so to-day, I should dedicate this chapter to the memory of a friend who has been constantly in my mind while writing it; for she formed in her beautiful garden, near our modern city, Chicago, the only perfect herb garden I know,—a garden that is the counterpart of the garden of Erasmus, made four centuries ago; for in it are "nothing but Sweet Herbs, and choice ones too, and every kind its bed by itself."
— from Old-Time Gardens, Newly Set Forth by Alice Morse Earle

“I know it, but batting isn’t my best specialty and it is for some of you fellows.”
— from The Rival Pitchers: A Story of College Baseball by Lester Chadwick