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Example sentences for "knew her"

  • When I got outside, I asked the man if he knew her.

  • Madame Rinaldi had aged somewhat, but I knew her directly.

  • I knew her and I also knew that she kept a servants' agency.

  • I should lose too heavily by the comparison.

  • She tried to draw it away, and as she rose he put his arm round her waist and made her sit down on his knee; but at this point the husband took her arm and led her out of the room.

  • She would never have done anything," said Madame Morin, "if she had not left America and come to France; and if my niece does not go to Paris nobody can say that the horoscope has prophesied falsely.

  • She might have given herself out for your governess, as she wishes to pass you off as my daughter.

  • It was but a moment's glance, for she had already dismounted from her mare, and was passing within with two other ladies of her party; but in that one glance he knew her.

  • He, in his place among those squadrons, knew her, though so far distant, and endured the deadliest trial of patience which had come to him while beneath the yoke of African discipline.

  • He knew her now--how had he been so blind as never to guess the truth before, as never to know that those imperial eyes and that diadem of golden hair could belong alone but to the women of one race?

  • He knew her illnesses; they never occurred but for her own convenience.

  • He knew her to be clever, to have a quick apprehension as well as good sense, and a fondness for reading, which, properly directed, must be an education in itself.

  • Colonel Buckmaster, Lord Bagwig's private secretary, knew her, and says it is to a T.

  • Potter, the rector at Rosebury, knew her.

  • I knew her when I was a boy, long before you were born or thought of; and in wandering forty years through the world since, I have seen no woman in my eyes so good or so beautiful.

  • I knew her grandfather, an accommodating old gentleman, and I borrowed some money from him when I was a subaltern at Calcutta.

  • He knew her to be quite capable of refusing to touch a farthing of it, or to act as executrix.

  • I wish I knew her," said Mrs. Little, very earnestly, and almost in a whisper.

  • I knew her by her white satin dress for Madame.

  • As we can, Madam,' said the Bishop with a smile--he was easy now that he knew her mind.

  • I speak of her as I knew her afterwards, not as she appeared on this, the first day of meeting.

  • But he knew her, he knew her meaning, without understanding.

  • He did not know her any better, any more precisely, now that he knew her altogether.

  • In herself she walked strong and clear, he knew her, he saluted her, was with her.

  • Alice's husband was dead before I knew her,' said Philip, rather evading the main subject.

  • She was a bonny lass as ever were seen, I've heerd folk say; but that were afore I knew her.

  • What was more strange, considering how well he knew her, Donnington did not really know how much she herself believed in it all.

  • You know I did all that was possible for one woman to do for another during those few weeks that I knew her?

  • Long ago when I was a little lad I knew her in Venice, and she was good to me and to my parents.

  • And now he was wondering why Miss Slade or Mrs. Marlow had two names, and why she appeared to be one person as he knew her in private life, and another as he had seen her that very morning.

  • He knew her for a clever, rather brilliant young woman, with ideas, and the power to express them.

  • He just mentioned that he knew her--mentioned it in casual conversation," answered Fullaway.

  • I even believe as far as direct actions go, she may have been a virtuous woman, for she certainly, had no other lover when I knew her.

  • I knew her, fortunately or unfortunately, however, moving in society as the adopted daughter of a refined gentlewoman, to be the child of a lunatic mother and a father who drank his life away in a Continental retreat.

  • Knowing this I would not for a moment consent even to the thought of either of my sons marrying her, although I knew her to be all that was gracious in womankind.

  • He had never been in the house since he knew her, and now what strange sweetness, and what pangs!

  • He knew her voice, and it produced an effect like fever on him.

  • I knew her to be of a highly-strung, super-sensitive nature.

  • After all, I had never said I knew her father's secret.


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