And he led them forth to his kingdom, for he was a King's son, and they married, and lived happily.
— from Household Tales by Brothers Grimm by Wilhelm Grimm

“Oh, we have so often spoken of you, that he knows exactly how I talk to you.”
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

Here dined my old acquaintance, Mr. Borfett, that was my Lord Sandwich’s chaplain, and my Lady Wright and Dr. Boreman, who is preacher at St. Gyles’s in the Fields, who, after dinner, did give my Lord an account of two papist women lately converted, whereof one wrote her recantation, which he shewed under her own hand mighty well drawn, so as my Lord desired a copy of it, after he had satisfied himself from the Doctor, that to his knowledge she was not a woman under any necessity.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

whence it comes to pass that he knows not, which he may avert of the two.
— from Ethics by Benedictus de Spinoza

He could not admit this, because he neither saw the expression of such feelings in the people among whom he was living, nor found them in himself (and he could not but consider himself one of the persons making up the Russian people), and most of all because he, like the people, did not know and could not know what is for the general good, though he knew beyond a doubt that this general good could be attained only by the strict observance of that law of right and wrong which has been revealed to every man, and therefore he could not wish for war or advocate war for any general objects whatever.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

The boatswain, Job Anderson, was the likeliest man aboard, and though he kept his old title, he served in a way as mate.
— from Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson

in the Bodleian. One of these was the following memorandum, which shows pretty plainly Pepys’s opinion of Harbord:— “That about the time of Mr. Pepys’s surrender of his employment of Secretary of the Admiralty, Capt. Russell and myself being in discourse about Mr. Pepys, Mr. Russell delivered himself in these or other words to this purport: That he thought it might be of advantage to both, if a good understanding were had between his brother Harbord and Mr. Pepys, asking me to propose it to Mr. Pepys, and he would to his brother, which I agreed to, and went immediately from him to Mr. Pepys, and telling him of this discourse, he gave me readily this answer in these very words: That he knew of no service
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

I ought to have kept quiet in the tavern, a plague on my tongue.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

And all might have been well, even at this, had not Minty’s return to his kingdom gone to his head.
— from The Prairie Child by Arthur Stringer

Let her trample upon that black thing, his heart, and sport with his torture, and deceive his love, and betray his confidence, till he know not where to find faith or truth in all the world; for, the moment that he believes her true, or kind, or gentle, or affectionate, he turns a serpent which would sting her, and poison for her the life, the feelings, the happiness, she is ever ready to devote to him.
— from One in a Thousand; or, The Days of Henri Quatre by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

By this time he knew full well (it was 3 a.m. )
— from Plum Pudding: Of Divers Ingredients, Discreetly Blended & Seasoned by Christopher Morley

In his 13th page he gives a record (of his own making) relating to John Bolles, which record declares that J. Bolles acknowledged that he came from New London, and was going to Lebanon, and that he knew it was contrary to our law, and that they did it in defiance of the law.
— from The Rogerenes: some hitherto unpublished annals belonging to the colonial history of Connecticut by John R. (John Rogers) Bolles

I am convinced that he killed Starth with the revolver."
— from The Scarlet Bat: A Detective Story by Fergus Hume

One thing he knew.
— from Dangerous Days by Mary Roberts Rinehart

Big Sandy acted as though he knew, which increased his importance for a time, and discredited him thereafter.
— from Hopalong Cassidy by Clarence Edward Mulford

But Ahithophel, on rejection of his advice, got upon his ass, and rode away to his own country, Gilon; and, calling his family together, he told them distinctly what advice he had given Absalom; and since he had not been persuaded by it, he said he would evidently perish, and this in no long time, and that David would overcome him, and return to his kingdom again; so he said it was better that he should take his own life away with freedom and magnanimity, than expose himself to be punished by David, in opposition to whom he had acted entirely for Absalom.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus