I suppose he meant this as a play upon the word toy: it was the first time that I knew him stoop to such sport.
Talking to himself was, indeed, one of his singularities ever since I knew him.
I could see nothing of him but his eyes, yet I knew him--and so knew his colour and bigness.
As he spoke, he turned his back, and instantly I knew him.
I knew him," he answered with a curious smile, "but he did not care about my acquaintance, and we never met.
One day as I was staring at him, he asked me whether I knew him.
O was not aware that I knew him, and I had not forgotten what M.
Before I knew him I was not happy, but neither was I unhappy as I now am.
A man picked it up and read it, and I knew him to be the superintendent.
Cardinal de Bernis passed ten years in exile, 'procul negotiis', but he was not happy, as he told me himself when I knew him in Rome fifteen years afterwards.
And I knew him not: but that he should be manifest to Israel, therefore am I come baptizing with water.
And I knew him not: but he that sent me to baptize with water, the same said unto me, Upon whom thou shalt see the Spirit descending and remaining on him, the same is he which baptizeth with the Holy Ghost.
Those of us who knew him, knew him as the most astonishing human expression of the Creative Spirit we had ever seen.
Evidently he knew him self, and even in his brief experience with the world he understood how uncertain and evanescent are the winds of Fame.
Since entering college I had met him casually many times and had heard of his oddities and exuberance; but throughout this dinner I came to feel that I knew him.
I told him I knew him but it would not be to his disadvantage.
His answer was, "God help the man who attempted to rob me and I knew him!
He asked me if he could get some supper with us and I told him to "lay to," and he then asked me if I knew him.
Prior to the year of 1860 I was not personally acquainted with Kit Carson, but after that year I knew him well.
I knew him by sight, however, because he was living at the same hotel and I often saw him at table.
I knew him as a frank, positive and generous man, true to his friends even to a fault, but always a leader.
Brown was a boy when they lived in the same house, but he knew him afterwards, and regarded him as a man of great purity of character, of high moral and physical courage, but a fanatic and extremist in whatever he advocated.
If I knew him at first sight, it was not easy for him to recognise me, disfigured with blood and dirt, and altered by the misery I had undergone.
Hedulio side-stepped as deftly as a professional beast-fighter in an amphitheatre and to my amazement, well as I knew him, threw away the fork.
I knew him as a young noble knows many an older senator: he may remember me.
He had a great belief in his young partner's ability, and, though he knew him to be astute, did not think him capable of roguery.
I knew him when he was a boy and I'll answer for it, he won't trouble you any more.
Sa'id; and indeed it was his very self, but he was wan of blee and changed for long strangerhood and the travails of travel, so that he knew him not.
When Sulayman heard this, his heart burned within him for anxiety to discover the man, and he said, "If we knew him, truly we would requite him for his generosity.
The guests said they had no doubt that he was a murderer flying from justice, and that the dog by his instinct, even at a distance, knew him to be such.
As I knew him to be of a rather sullen unsocial disposition, I said nothing to him, but proceeded on my way.
George Meredith was too much of a prima donna and was very deaf and uninterruptable when I knew him, but he was amazingly good even then.
He was a man to whom life had added nothing; he was perverse, unreasonable, brilliant, boisterous and kind when I knew him; but he must have been all these in the nursery.
At the period in which most of us knew him, he was no more an imitator than he was in any true sense himself imitable.
I suppose I may call him the doctor now, though at the time I didn't call him so--I knew him merely as a visible figure.
I could only see the man's back, to be sure, but I knew himin a second.
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