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Sentences starting with known

Known from the Canadian border to the deserts of Arizona, and from the eastern marches of the Great Plains to the foot-hills of the Sierra! [5]

Sentences ending with known

But why don't you want it known? [5]
To none--man nor woman--and I beseech you as urgently as friend or Caesar ever besought a favor--let the least suspicion of my arrival be known. [10]
When he was within twenty paces, and Nicholas could clearly distinguish every detail of his handsome, happy young face, he experienced a feeling tenderness and ecstasy such as he had never before known. [2]
Nay, if you will have the kindness to notice, Nature has not gifted my lady musk-deer with the personal peculiarity by which her lord is so widely known. [6]
The great bear-hunter, who keeps one of the summer boarding-houses, received my story with a smile of incredulity; and the incredulity spread to the other inhabitants and to the boarders as soon as the story was known. [4]
His great schemes were completed, he was a rich man, and he had pictured himself retiring to this Seigneury, a peaceful and practical figure, living out his days in a refined repose which his earlier life had never known. [11]
You are most welcome to the seat, and would have been from the first if I had only known. [5]
That day, as we sat on the summit, he gave in great detail the story, the general outline of which is well known. [4]
Whether this change was wrought by their great approval of the assault upon Sumter, or their great resentment at the government's resistance to that assault, is not definitely known. [7]
Heinz Schorlin's generosity was well known. [10]

Short sentences using known

His history was not known. [5]
I, too, was known. [9]
Rivervale is getting known. [4]
Matches were not known. [10]
Hunt's coat-tails was known there. [9]
She might have known it. [9]
I might have known it. [5]
I might have known it! [8]
I should have known better. [9]
I might have known better. [6]

Sentences containing known two or more times

I am known to few; you are known to all. [11]
The locality and the position of our troops were known to him as far as they could be known to anyone in our army. [2]
He had met the cure, first accidentally on the shore, and afterwards in the cure's house, finding much in common--he had known many priests in the North, known much good of them. [11]
I've known Hylda since she was ten, and I've known him since the minute he came into the world, and I've got the measure of both. [11]
But in spite of every desire to regard it as known, anyone reading many historical works cannot help doubting whether this new force, so variously understood by the historians themselves, is really quite well known to everybody. [2]
Currer Bell is not known in the district, and I have no wish that he should become known. [14]
I have known Mr. Secretary Hay--John Hay, as the nation and the rest of his friends love to call him--I have known John Hay and Tom Reed and the Reverend Twichell close upon thirty-six years. [5]
If he had known what it had cost me to acquire my art, he would also have known that it would break any collector to buy it. [5]
He, Hodder, had known this, but known it vaguely, without sanction. [9]
Now, I have known so many burglars--not exactly known, but so many of them have come near me in my various dwelling-places, that I am disposed to allow them credit for whatever good qualities they possess. [5]

More example sentences with the word known in them

Here the persecuted youth changed his name, Horus, to its Greek equivalent, and henceforth he was known at home and in the schools as Apollo. [10]
This fact of yours, which seems so strange to you, belongs to a great series of similar facts familiarly known now to many persons, and before long to be recognized as generally as those relating to the electric telegraph and the slaving `dynamo. [6]
The influence of your telegram the other day is still upon me, and has impressed me with the idea that there are many parts of the problem which influence you that are not known to me. [7]
The memory of your dear father, instead of an agony, will yet be a sad, sweet feeling in your heart, of a purer and holier sort than you have known before. [7]
Most of the young men knew a portion of it, and it was not customary to venture much beyond this known portion. [5]
At Pocasset the young men explored all the thick woods,--some who ought to have known better taking their guns, which made a talk, as one might well suppose it would. [6]
Here were this young lady and his friend, who had known each other for three days, perhaps, in the most casual way, and her friends had her already as good as married to him and off on a wedding journey. [4]
More than one young gentleman of family had been known to ride through the Place du Vier Prison, hoping to get sight of her, and to offer the view of a suggestively empty pillion behind him. [11]
I cannot expect you, who have known the happiness of marriage, to realize the tortures of it without love. [9]
She's never known you, never seen what most of us have seen, that all you have--or nearly all--is your lovely looks, and what they call a kind heart. [11]
If you had, you would have known what it was I adored in you. [9]
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]
I have known you long, and I am not ignorant of all your brilliant qualities, but you must not speak to me of love. [6]
Be thankful that you have once known them, and remember that even the learned ignorance of a nomenclature is something to have mastered, and may furnish pegs to hang facts upon which would otherwise have strewed the floor of memory in loose disorder. [3]
But, no, no, you have not thought well of me, or you would have known that every day I cared, every day I watched, and waited, and hoped--and believed! [11]
I have known you for some time, though I think you did not know me. [6]
I wish that you could have known him. [6]
As district attorney you are doubtless known to the local authorities. [9]
A few years yonder in the desert--power, glory, wealth won for Egypt, the strength of thine arms known, the piety of thy spirit proven, thy name upon every tongue--on thy return, who then should fear for Egypt! [11]
Time had not yet robbed the former of a single charm, while from the Queen he had wrested many; their number was known only to herself and her confidantes, but at this hour she did not miss them. [10]
The result not yet being known, conjecture in regard to it is not here indulged. [7]
A gentleman says yes to a great many things without stopping to think: a shabby fellow is known by his caution in answering questions, for fear of, compromising his pocket or himself. [6]
During the later years of his life he ranked not only as America's chief man of letters, but likewise as her best known and best loved citizen. [5]
Close upon thirty-six years I have known those venerable men. [5]
When it was written I should not have known what was a popular theme. [11]
I might easily write a volume, pointing out inconsistencies between the statements in Adams's last address with one another, and with other known facts; but I am aware the reader must already be tired with the length of this article. [7]
And Mr. Charles Wrexell Allen, treasurer of the widely known Miles Standish Bicycle Company, was said to have led the cotillon in a manner that left nothing to be desired. [9]
A casual glance would have passed by these little dents; if Venters had not known what they signified he would never have bestowed upon them the second glance. [13]
Austen thought he would have known him had he seen him on the street. [9]
He and his worthy wife had known Herdegen of old, and I was cut to the heart to see how the sight of him grieved them both. [10]
Jethro, had Mr. Worthington but known it, was more interested in animate machines: more interested in Mr. Worthington than the falling-mill or, indeed, the tannery business. [9]
Mr. Carvel's last words will never be known, my dears. [9]
Here was a woman who could be dealt with by no known rules, who did not even deign to notice a week of marked coldness. [9]
Bent-Anat went forward without speaking, for she did not wish to make herself known again for the sake of the people, and for Nefert's; but Paaker put himself in her way. [10]
What they do with their surplus is only known to the Creator. [5]
Sadly, in accordance with the treaty which Monsieur Talleyrand had known nothing about, his Catholic Majesty instructed his Intendant at New Orleans to make ready to deliver Louisiana to the French Commission. [9]
Charley was pleased with my comparing the face of the small Ethiop known to his household as "Tines" to a huckleberry with features. [6]
I will speak with him alone.--You, my friends, withdraw with our idiologos, the priest of Alexander, who is well known here, and visit the city. [10]
It was scarred with erasures and interlineations till its mother wouldn't have known it if it had had one. [5]
Later he camped with Bob Howland, who, as City Marshal of Aurora, became known as the most fearless man in the Territory, and, still later, with Calvin H. Higbie (Cal), to whom 'Roughing It' would one day be dedicated. [5]
And he hoped, with an admixture of anxiety such as he had never known before, that the painter's demeanor would be such as should allow him to show mercy. [10]
He turned away with a grimace as if to say that everything Dolokhov had said to him and everything he could say had long been known to him, that he was weary of it and it was not at all what he wanted. [2]
That was a wise thought; matches were hardly known there in that day. [5]
What it held will, perhaps, never be known, until they are dead and gone, and same curious eye lights on an old yellow letter with the fossil footprints of the extinct passion trodden thick all over it. [6]
Not any here will refuse to drink her health right cordially in this bumper of wine, for each and every one has personally known, and loved, and honored the very best one of them all--his own mother. [5]
My prospective visit will not be a professional one, as I resigned my office in 1882, and am no longer known chiefly as a teacher or a practitioner. [6]
Now that it will become known that you do not love her, beware of Iras. [10]
In this volume will be found "Brahma," "Days," and others which are well known to all readers of poetry. [6]
I know not why, but there are vague whispers that he is acting against the Englishman for causes best known at Versailles, which have nothing to do with our affairs here. [11]
Among nonagenarians, three whose names are well known to Bostonians, Lord Lyndhurst, Josiah Quincy, and Sidney Bartlett, were remarkable for retaining their faculties in their extreme age. [6]
The guests in whom we may have some interest were in the mean time making ready for the party, which was expected to be a brilliant one; for 24 Carat Place was well known for the handsome style of its entertainments. [6]
The young lady whom we have known as The Terror, as Lurida, as Miss Vincent, Secretary of the Pansophian Society, had been reading various works selected for her by Dr. Butts,--works chiefly relating to the nervous system and its different affections. [6]
Miss Wallace, to whom the next letter is written, had known Mark Twain in Bermuda, and, after his death, published a dainty volume entitled Mark Twain in the Happy Island. [5]
Among the courtiers whom she had known so well in Ratisbon not one vouchsafed her anything more than a passing greeting; and the Queen of Hungary, to whom she would gladly have poured out her heart, had refused her repeated entreaties for an audience. [10]
His own son, whom he had never known, was to fight him at the polls! [11]
Charles Warren Stoddard, whom he had known in California, shared his apartment at the Langham, and acted as his secretary--a very necessary office, for he was besieged by callers and bombarded with letters. [5]
Fortunately for Victoria, who would not in the least have known what to reply, steps were heard on the porch, and Euphrasia opened the door. [9]
Then of Stratfordians who had seen people who had known or seen people who had seen Shakespeare? [5]
This is he who had never known aught but rags for raiment, kicks for comfort, and offal for diet! [5]
She was--as those who had known that fascinating gentleman were not slow to remark--Randolph Leffingwell over again. [9]
Of his father, who died in the fourth or fifth year of Henry's age, little seems to be known, except that he was a respectable man and a preacher of the Baptist persuasion. [7]
The distinguished part which you, Mr. Minister, have acted in the history of that interesting country, is well known here. [7]
The last point which need be noticed is that fishes are known to make various noises, some of which are described as being musical. [1]
The little thing, which he had scarcely known, was so inseparable from its detested mother that he had mourned it no more than her. [10]
The Brahmin blood which came from his grandfather as well as from his mother, a direct descendant of the old Flynt family, well known by the famous tutor, Henry Flynt, (see Cat. [6]
It is doubtful whether Kamehameha approved of the plan of the chiefs and priests to sacrifice men, as he was known to say, 'The men are sacred for the King;' meaning that they were for the service of his successor. [5]
And on Monday, when Preston so unexpectedly came home, he was happier than I have known him for years. [9]
In the days when I saw him most and best, he talked of you as an angel gone, and he had never sought another woman had he known that you lived. [11]
Her approval increased when he began to talk to her in his bantering way, as if he had known her always. [9]
You see, Ulrich, when a man becomes famous like you, he is known for a long distance, everything he does makes a great hue and cry, and echo repeats it in every alley. [10]
I cannot think what possessed the man,--he must have known me better. [9]
I have known what it was to dream of the great passions; but since my mother kissed me before she died, no woman's lips have pressed my cheek,--nor ever will. [6]
It is only what he tells of himself that comes to be known and believed. [6]
Beyond the mountain were unexplored regions, hill and valley floating into hill and valley, lost in a miasmic haze, ruddy, silent, untenanted, save, mayhap, by the strange people known as the Little Good Folk of the Scarlet Hills. [11]
If the danger were pressing, there was a door, known only to the initiated, which led to the steps and out of the building. [10]
Most of them were personally known to Cleopatra who, to their mutual pleasure and advantage, had measured her intellectual powers with the most brilliant minds of their body. [10]
If the truth were known, it would doubtless appear that rich plebeians grew too prominent in their affectation of patrician show on the Grand Canal, and required a wholesome snubbing. [5]
When you two were in the sick-room raising that riot, what would you have done if you had known I was coming? [5]
In effect they were days of companionship with one's sacred dead, and I have known no comradeship that was so close or so precious. [5]
Officers and privates were acted on by the force known as Sergeant Fones. [11]
Pains came and went, and at times I felt like a fagot flung into the fire,--I, who had never known a sick day. [9]
But the fossil went on as before, known by name to the merest handful of people in the colony, though they all profited, directly or indirectly, by his scientific services. [11]
And it is well, for he has known something more glorious than other men. [10]
There is a well known, so-called sophism of the ancients consisting in this, that Achilles could never catch up with a tortoise he was following, in spite of the fact that he traveled ten times as fast as the tortoise. [2]
He is so well known, so much appreciated by everyone. [2]
He was so well known, and he used to go to St. [9]
The Hallers were well known to him, and not alone my best beloved, inasmuch as they did great trading with his kingdom of Hungary; and he was well pleased to see my Hans with his father as one of the council. [10]
Its branches are well known to Europe and America under the familiar name of maccaroni. [6]
Mr. Gould is well known to admit the existence of few varieties, for he esteems very slight differences as specific; yet he states (36. [1]
It is also well known that some dogs howl when hearing particular tones. [1]
For it was well known that one of Jethro's fixed principles in life was embodied in his own motto, "Don't write--send. [9]
Perhaps I ain't well known hereabouts, but back up North there's Mormons who'd rest uneasy in their graves at the idea of me sittin' to table with you. [13]
The magistrate was well known here, and the doorkeeper, roused from his sleep, hastened to light the way for him and his wife with a lantern. [10]
He ain't very well known around the State, and he was bound to run--and I just couldn't let him come out without any clothes on. [9]
My story was well advanced before Hawthorne's wonderful "Marble Faun," which might be thought to have furnished me with the hint of a mixed nature,--human, with an alien element,--was published or known to me. [6]
Does he suppose we want to be known and talked about in public as "Teacups"? [6]
If one whom we recognized and adored as a god should go abroad in our streets, and the day it was to happen were known, all traffic would be blocked and business would come to a standstill. [5]
No doubt, if we had now known her for the first time, we should have admired her exceedingly, and probably have accounted her thrice happy in filling so well her brilliant position. [4]
In the same way, that other realist, M. Zola, has painted a patient suffering from delirium tremens, the disease known to common speech as "the horrors. [6]
I want to watch their turning before I go, for, be it known to you, early tomorrow morning--the saints be praised!--I start for Brussels. [10]

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