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Sentences starting with knew

Knew no reason why he could not be an impartial juror. [5]
Knew old man Gibbs well's I do you. [9]
Knew ye that? [5]
Knew Col. Selby. [5]

Sentences ending with knew

He married a young lady whom I knew. [5]
Yet all Egypt would rise up from the mud-floor, the dourha-field and the mud-hut, and would come out to die for Mahomet and Allah--ay, as Harrik knew, as Harrik knew! [11]
How all Washington would gather up its virtuous skirts and avoid me, if it knew. [5]
What their fate would be no man knew. [9]
That was the worst day the college ever knew. [11]
While he was with her she made him forget that the Hawkins' house was nothing but a wooden tenement, with four small square rooms on the ground floor and a half story; it might have been a palace for aught he knew. [5]
This power, combined with a fine intellectual and indomitable energy, and a taste altogether military, constituted in him, as seemed to me, the best natural talent in that department I ever knew. [7]
But I do wish I knew. [5]
About a man, who wanted treasures, and before whom mountains opened at a word he knew. [10]
In the end, when her awakening came, she learned that she had builded better than she knew. [13]

Short sentences using knew

Oh, I knew you would! [11]
I knew you years ago. [11]
I knew you would. [5]
I knew you would! [10]
I knew he would come! [10]
She knew not why. [12]
And he knew why. [10]
She knew not what action. [9]
I knew you were somebody. [9]
I knew him well. [5]

Sentences containing knew two or more times

I knew that you were not mixed up in politics, but I also knew that you were an intimate friend of Jethro's, and I thought that you had been let into the secret of the woodchuck session. [9]
If he knew you as I knew you, he would look at the matter in a different light. [9]
I knew he would; I knew it mighty well. [5]
I knew you would sympathize--I knew you would feel as I do. [8]
He knew now why he had come to town; he also knew why he must not stay, or, if staying, what must be his course. [11]
Here were people who knew the truth about him, knew the sort of man he really was. [11]
No one knew what to do, for no one knew well the state of Henderson's affairs. [4]
He knew men well, and he knew that youths of various birth take a blow in the face in various ways; now, the Emir's son had demeaned him as one of his rank, and had stood the ordeal! [10]
I knew very well the strength of my position; I knew that I was the only spotlessly pure and innocent person in that whole town, and I came out and said so: And they could not say a word. [5]
Perrot knew the way, I did not; Perrot also knew the Indians. [11]

More example sentences with the word knew in them

I knew two youths who tried to "kill their men" for no other reason--and got killed themselves for their pains. [5]
Trying to play yourself for a stranger and an innocent!--why, I knew you before you had spoken seven words; and I made up my mind to find out what was your little game. [5]
They are aware, your honour, that he and you knew each other in Ireland, and they think you are hard on him. [11]
Men would call your acts treacherous if they knew what you had done; and so indeed they were; but yet I have seen you do things to others--not to me--which could rise only from the fountain of pure waters. [11]
They were not youngsters, either of them; but they had the spring of youth in them, and a deep basis of strength and force; and they knew the veld and the veld people. [11]
In 1870 a young stranger arrived in Sydney, and set about finding something to do; but he knew no one, and brought no recommendations, and the result was that he got no employment. [5]
Of all the young men she knew, not one had ever ventured into anything of the sort. [9]
Most of the young men knew a portion of it, and it was not customary to venture much beyond this known portion. [5]
While still a young man, he had a manner of folding his hands and smiling which is peculiar to capitalists, and he knew the laws concerning mortgages in several different states. [9]
There were five young gentlemen playing a game I knew not, with intervals of intense silence, and boisterous laughter and execrations while the cards were being shuffled and the money rang on the board and glasses were being filled from a stand at one side. [9]
But the sturdy young fellow knew how to defend his liberty, and had already released himself from his assailant when other servants grasped him. [10]
He knew that young and old wolves were there, that the hounds had separated into two packs, that somewhere a wolf was being chased, and that something had gone wrong. [2]
I didn't tell you, because I knew you were afraid to be left alone. [13]
I acknowledged to you yesterday what you already knew without words. [10]
He knew that you would obey his orders, I suppose. [9]
I knew that you would not refuse me in spite of the fact that the world may misunderstand, may sneer at your taking me. [9]
I am sure you would not be so cruel if you knew that I was aching to see you. [9]
You are--I knew you would help me. [10]
We knew that you were rich. [10]
If I knew you were not, I should not have troubled you with this letter. [7]
So you knew you were guilty of sin in going without their leave! [5]
He knew that you were engaged to me. [9]
Last I knew, you were deep in the Mind Cure. [4]
I knew that you were big enough even for that, when you understood it, coming from me. [9]
H. What makes you think you thought you knew him? [5]
But I've known you since you were so high, and I knew your father; he used to stay weeks on my plantation when we were both younger. [4]
We knew him, you see, for a trusty man. [5]
But how knew you our baker was English?--which he is, a prisoner like yourself. [11]
I knew that you meant all you urged upon me; that you liked me. [11]
I would let you know now, if I knew myself. [5]
I don't think you knew it, but his first wife was one of your acquaintances-- Mrs. Llyn, whose daughter you saw just before we left Playmore. [11]
Ah, what ambition you had when I first knew you on the Zambesi, when the old red umbrella, but for you, would have carried me over into the mist and the thunder! [11]
I knew that you had advertised a trip to Europe (why, the Lord only knows), so I went East and sailed for England on the Canadian Line. [9]
Why, I knew you for a born son of luck the minute I saw you. [5]
I knew that you did not want me. [9]
You knew him, you can understand what I mean. [10]
She shrank, and yet again she said that she would rather have his cruelty than another man's tenderness, so long as she knew that she had his-- She paused, and did not say the word. [11]
I heard that yesterday morning, and thought that the golden blessing which preceded it would last the dear saints only knew how long. [10]
When they reached Yaroslavl the wound had begun to fester (Natasha knew all about such things as festering) and the doctor had said that the festering might take a normal course. [2]
So it is written; and you could actually declare before the judges a thing that was false, and that you knew would bring others to ruin? [10]
He knew the writing very well--Jock Lawson's. [11]
Even if he wounded Racine only, what a wretched story to go abroad: that he had fought with a hunchback--a hunchback who knew the use of the sword, which he did not, but still a hunchback! [11]
I knew you wouldn't mind, but you mustn't leave your--affairs,--not for an instant. [9]
I knew you wouldn't like it. [4]
Sonya said you wouldn't go, but I knew that today is the sort of day when you couldn't help going. [2]
Even then I wouldn't believe it of him, that he'd take poor people's money that way when he had more than he knew what to do with. [9]
I know you wouldn't be seen with him if you knew his reputation. [5]
I knew they would, of course. [9]
He knew she would stand by him whatever happened. [4]
For instance, she would stamp four copies of each letter out of sweet honey-cakes, and when I knew them well she gave me these tiny little A. [10]
Thither, quoth she, would she send Herdegen on his coming; for she knew full well that the tidings brought by Akusch could not remain hid. [10]
I knew it would sadden you and unfit you for work. [5]
He knew Sonya would pass that way. [2]
I knew you would only have to show him that it was just and pure, in order to secure his cordial support. [5]
I knew Blucher would not lose an opportunity like this. [5]
She knew he would never pull himself together now. [11]
I knew he would never consent to spend the season at the Star and Garter at my expense. [9]
He, Berthold Vorchtel, would make no complaint against him, for he knew that Wolff had been forced to cross swords with his Ulrich. [10]
That, he knew, would make Edith happy, and to make her happy seemed now very much like a worthy object in life. [4]
Finally, if I would lend him $500 a year for two years, (this was 4 or 5 years ago,) he knew he could make a success as a lawyer, and would prove it. [5]
He must, he would forget--and he knew, that he could only succeed if he found a task which might promise to give some new occupation to his bereaved soul. [10]
I knew he would forget it in an hour, and maybe be sorry for it, too; but it angered me a little, at the moment. [5]
No doubt he would deny it now, for he knew how she loathed him. [11]
I knew it would be, but I couldn't bear to shorten my visit in Brandon. [4]
Ditmar, she knew, would be waiting for her, he counted on her, and she could not bear to disappoint him, to disappoint herself. [9]
I knew she would be uneasy about him. [5]
I knew there would be trouble. [5]
I knew there would be trouble. [11]
I knew someone would be there--it is nearer the world. [11]
He knew what would be the unanimous opinion of society about it. [4]
I knew she would be solicitous about what he might do down here, so I did it to quiet her and to comfort her. [5]
Then he, Argutis, would be house steward, and show that he knew other things besides keeping the workroom and garden in order, splitting wood, and buying cheaply at market. [10]
We feared you would be anxious unless you knew from ourselves what steps we intended to take, and therefore came to you before we stirred in the matter. [12]
I knew her worth when first she came to London, as arrant a baggage as ever led man a dance. [9]
He knew the world tolerably well. [11]
Yes, all the world knew it was going to be in reality a duel between Merlin and me, a measuring of his magic powers against mine. [5]
She saw me working; she knew the life I had to live; she was lifted up with me. [11]
He blindly felt working in the man before him a powerful mind, more powerful because it faced the truth unflinchingly; but he knew that this did not mean calm acceptance of the consequences. [11]
Not that my work was poor, but I knew that it might have been better. [9]
I had hard work to keep my temper, but I knew that I must not lose it. [9]
The tyrant who wore this gaudy cloak was, no doubt, devoid alike of truth and conscience; but, as to his being a philosopher, who knew the worthlessness of earthly things and turned his back upon the world, those who could might believe it! [10]
She knew the words, too; and even before she could hear them, they were fitting into the air: "Qui va la! [11]
Few as the words were, Jane knew how infinitely much they implied. [13]
By those two words Orlando knew what was in the mind of Louise. [11]
Mr. Marmaduke was wont to rise at noon, and knew not wheat from barley, or good leaf from bad; his hands he kept like a lady's, rendering them almost useless by the long lace on the sleeves, and his chief pastime was card-playing. [9]
The scene was wondrously beautiful, but Xanthe had not gone to the spring to gaze at the landscape; nay, she scarcely knew that it was lovely. [10]
He stared, and wondered, and finally said-- 'Well, I thought I knew how to steer a steamboat, but that was another mistake of mine. [5]
Cynthia listened, and wondered what language Miss Duncan would use if she knew how great and how complete that change had been. [9]
It was a woman's reason, and it was not without a certain exquisite egotism and vanity, for she remembered so well the letter she had written him--every word was etched into her mind; and she knew by heart every word of his reply. [11]
And yet again, woman-like, she knew it would lead to the same conclusion: "You must go to-night? [11]
Who was this woman that knew her and her history? [11]
The little old woman scarce knew where she was for sheer amazement, nor wist she who he was till he broke out into his old loud laugh at the sight of her dismay. [10]
The Queen, less woman now than Queen, enraged by the information got he knew not how, had come at once to punish the gross breach of her orders and a dark misconduct-so he thought. [11]
I knew a woman in Newcastle --but there's no use going into that, I guess. [9]
But the one witness to McGilveray's adventure was dead, and that was why no man knew wherefore it was that McGilveray took an oath to drink no more till they captured Quebec. [11]
A half-mad woman, without memory, knew again whence she came and whither she was going; and bewildered and happy, with a hungering tenderness, moved her hand over the head of her poor dwarf, as though she would know if he were truly her own son. [11]
He could live without her--that he knew regretfully. [11]
I knew it without asking, but I wanted to hear you say it. [5]
He knew that within reach of Paula, and condemned to live with her, he could never recover his peace, but must suffer constant pangs. [10]
Blenker's division was withdrawn from you before you left here, and you knew the pressure under which I did it, and, as I thought, acquiesced in it certainly not without reluctance. [7]

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