And I’ll buy you a nice little penny handkerchief to keep your nose dry.
— from A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce

“Where do you keep your nutmegs, Dinah?” said Miss Ophelia, with the air of one who prayed for patience.
— from Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

For know you not, dear, earnest reader, that the people of our land may all read and write, and may all possess the right to vote—and yet the main things may be entirely lacking?—(and
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

“I know you never do, my dear; and you will always find your reward in the affection it makes everybody feel for you.
— from Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

‘But I have known you people before to-day, you’ll observe, and I know you never die for want of talking.
— from Hard Times by Charles Dickens

“Tom, Tom, I would be the thankfullest soul in this world if I could believe you ever had as good a thought as that, but you know you never did—and I know it, Tom.”
— from The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain

You know yourself, now, don’t you, Mr. Cray, that I’m not a burglar—or a bandit or a sneak thief?
— from The Mystery Girl by Carolyn Wells

I was not quite sane, I think, for at first I suspected you of such treachery as in my sober senses I know you never dreamed of.
— from The Cords of Vanity: A Comedy of Shirking by James Branch Cabell

He's no more a prince than you are, though that's a liberty, seeing that I don't know your name, doctor.
— from The House Under the Sea: A Romance by Max Pemberton

“Is it your wish to kill yourself?” “Never, doctor.”
— from The Man in the Iron Mask by Alexandre Dumas

You wished to bespatter me with mud, but I am one of those men who may be killed yet not dishonored.
— from Military Career of Napoleon the Great An Account of the Remarkable Campaigns of the "Man of Destiny"; Authentic Anecdotes of the Battlefield as Told by the Famous Marshals and Generals of the First Empire by Montgomery B. Gibbs

I s'pose he knowed ye never done no harm, an' he war willin' ter suffer stiddier you-uns.
— from The Prophet of the Great Smoky Mountains by Mary Noailles Murfree

But you never liked him, Frank—you know you never did."
— from Fairy Gold by Christian Reid

I know not how to say a more affectionate Thing to you, than to wish you may be always what you are, and that you may ever think, as I know you now do, that you have a much larger Fortune than you want.
— from Lady Mary Wortley Montague, Her Life and Letters (1689-1762) by Lewis Melville

I know the car does run; and I know you nearly died last night.
— from The Thing from the Lake by Eleanor M. (Eleanor Marie) Ingram