Defeated in the attempt to act like a strong man, he could not yet recover standing-ground, knew not how to tone his utterances.
She must receive it this very night, and he knew not how to ensure that save by delivering it himself.
The evening he would have to spend at the hospital; if there came no reply before the time of his leaving home, he knew not how he should compel himself to the ordinary routine of work.
Moving about among common needs and occupations, he knew not a moment's cessation of heart-ache, but when he lay down in the darkness a hopeful summons whispered to him.
He knew not if the brotherhood His homily had understood; He only knew that to one ear The meaning of his words was clear.
I breathed a song into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For who has sight so keen and strong, That it can follow the flight of song?
THE ARROW AND THE SONG I shot an arrow into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For, so swiftly it flew, the sight Could not follow it in its flight.
Unjust witnesses rising up have asked me things I knew not.
But they rejoiced against me, and came together: scourges were gathered together upon me, and I knew not.
He ordained it for a testimony in Joseph, when he came out of the land of Egypt: he heard a tongue which he knew not.
A people which I knew not, hath served me: at the hearing of the ear they have obeyed me.
There was a ceaseless stream of these living dead men pouring into the catacombs of Ho-Pin, coming he knew not whence, and issuing forth again, he knew not whither.
His duties thus far had never taken him beyond the corridor known as Block A; what might lie on the other side of the cave of the golden dragon he knew not.
The onlookers laughed uproariously, and he felt ashamed, he knew not why, for it was his first snow.
It caused him to feel a vague, sweet gladness, and he was aware of wild yearnings and stirrings for he knew not what.
He knew not on whom to fix as the successor to Kelly for consulting the spirits; but at last chose his son Arthur, a boy of eight years of age.
There was an urgency within him, a longing to find some outlet for his feelings, he knew not how--some expression and culmination of his happiness, he knew not what.
He had hardly been satisfied by her manner, he knew not why.
And further, suspicion fixed on Horace (he knew not how, except that The Book bids us be suspicious of those we hate) as the man who had betrayed his recent dealings with Laetitia.
The ball had entered my shoulder, and I knew not whether it had remained there or passed through; at any rate I had no means of extracting it.
Here I paused, I knew not why; but I remained some minutes with my eyes fixed on a coach that was coming towards me from the other end of the street.
He paused and, why I could not tell, I grew weak with fear of I knew not what, and bethought me of flight.
And immediately I began to prefer the dangers that I knew to those I knew not.
At the conclusion of this concert he knew not whether to feel more relieved or chagrined to observe that his fair hostess had her eyes fixed upon the clock.
He knew not whether to feel more relieved or embarrassed to find that he evidently rose in her estimation as a conscientious landlord.
The Baron looked as though he knew not whether to feel satisfied or not.
When Myles found himself alone with Lady Alice, he knew not where to look or what to do, but twisted the piece of clematis which he still held in and out more industriously than ever.
I knew not what I was doing, or else I would never have come hither.
The older lads stood silent before their chief, but Myles was deaf and blind and mad with passion, he knew not where he stood or what he said or did.
I knew not where we were, and dared not descend, lest I should waste the power of the balloon, but I was half hopeful that we might be above the country from which I had originally started.
What they were I knew not, but they grew gradually fainter and fainter, and after a time were lost.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "knew not" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
