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Example sentences for "knew well"

  • I was so much taken with it all that I had no eyes for my own people who were there to see me off, until straight out from the crowded wharf there came a young man whom I knew well.

  • He knew well that as a rule it was not fitting that he should ask a married man without his wife; but there are occasions on which an excuse can be given, and upon the whole the men liked it.

  • He knew well whom it was that he suspected;--and she knew also.

  • Augustus, who was old for his age, and had already practised himself much in London life, knew well how to make himself agreeable.

  • He knew well what he could do, and never attempted that which was beyond his power.

  • I frequently replied that everybody, nay, all Italy, knew well I was an excellent goldsmith; but Italy had not yet seen what I could do in sculpture.

  • As far as we were concerned, we knew well that we had lost a friend--our best friend--in our dear old Colonel.

  • We knew well that in all probability few of us would ever see our dear old home again, or those who were near and dear to us.

  • Whether M'Caskey had any forebodings of what was to come or not, he knew well that it was not the moment for men like himself to be needed.

  • The next one had a led horse, on which rode poor old Jim, looking as if he was going to be hanged that day, as Billy said, though I knew well he wasn't thinking about himself.

  • Jim and I knew well that, bar accidents, we were as safe in the Hollow as we used to be in our beds when we were boys.

  • Prisoner was then very well dressed, was gentlemanly in his manners, and came to his office with a young gentleman of property whom he knew well.

  • They were educated at an academy in Walthamstow, kept by Mr. Cogan, a Presbyterian minister, whose son I knew well.

  • His mother, whom I knew well, related anecdotes of his early days at home, and at Mill Hill School, where he had schoolfellows who afterwards distinguished themselves in the walks of Dissent.

  • Joseph Kinghorn, his opponent, a distinguished Hebrew scholar, I knew well, as he lived in Norwich during my boyhood.

  • Then I thought I would sleep while I might, for there was no sea to fear, and the tide set with the wind away from shore from the river mouth, as I knew well, for it was ebbing.

  • So I bid them go, and on that their leader, a stout freeman named Leof, whom I knew well as one of Egfrid's best men, said that he would come with me.

  • Soon the bishop judged that the time was come for mass, and he called softly to me, bidding me serve, for I had often done so for him in the old days when I was a boy and he was at Reedham, and I knew well what to do.

  • This time yesterday I knew well that I could expect none.

  • I knew well what it meant to a proud, sensitive spirit; and although it was only the usual probation for literary novices, it might have a different effect from successful training in the case of a thoughtful if irritable mind.

  • He knew well that I did not wish to interfere with his tastes.

  • Sure, we knew well how it would all turn out!

  • God knows what I hoped for, for I knew well it must all inevitably end in despair, yet like the moth I must continue to singe my wings until the flame devoured me.

  • For I knew well--my every soldier instinct told me--that somewhere out in that impenetrable mystery were blazing the camp-fires of an enemy.

  • He knew well it was not what others writ or said that could make him a praying person; nothing less than the Spirit could do it.

  • Her father and mother were dead, and that he knew well enough, and so she was the more easily overcome by his naughty lying tongue.

  • His moth-er had taught him to love the Bi-ble, and this Good Book he knew well.

  • He knew well how to fight the red men though, and in 1794 beat them in a fierce fight, on the spot where the cit-y of De-troit now stands.

  • Sorra one could give such a screech but a throat I knew well, and so I called out at the top of my voice, 'Ah, ye limb of the devil, this is your work!

  • It might have been her compelling personality--it might have been the marvels of beauty about me, but I knew well I had entered at some mystic gate.

  • That it meant no shade more than she had said I knew well.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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