His "money" was rarely out of his thoughts or speech, but no one had ever been privileged for many years now to see the inside of his box, except Eliza once; and no one but himself knew the exact amount of the hoard.
He had only lent to people he knew well, people in the village whom he could look after, and seldom for a term longer than three months, for to be parted from his money at all gave him physical pain.
As to the "things" and the bills, she believed that he knew nothing--had noticed nothing.
Now, however, Eliza knew no more, and the little widow sat gazing at her with the tears on her cheeks.
By much groping, she found some matches, and then lit one after another while she searched in her untidy drawers for an ink-bottle and a pen she knew must be there.
They knew him, but in six months they had grown strange to him.
But the worst of the village scandal-mongers knew of none.
There was not one of them knew how to keep a shilling when they'd got one.
At any rate, when he had once asked her the momentous question, she knew well what to say to him.
The porters knew him and greeted him; so did one or two labourers outside, as he set off to walk to the village, which was about a mile distant.
It meant that he was travelling back into the past, seeing and hearing things of which she knew nothing.
Delia, bluntly, for Mrs Winn spoke as though she knew much more than she expressed.
It would be very disagreeable, for she knew well that neither Mr Goodwin nor Dornton were favourite subjects at Waverley; and when things were going smoothly and pleasantly, it was so much nicer to leave them alone.
She tried to think of what she knew about organists.
There was a chair close to him, and as she took it, Anna noticed a piece of half-finished knitting on the table, which she knew belonged to Delia.
I fancy, if she knew this, that Mrs Forrest would neither go herself nor allow you to do so," continued Mrs Winn.
She went restlessly up to her bedroom, seeking she hardly knew what.
If her grandfather knew the very worst, if he knew that she had actually been ashamed of him, would he possibly forgive her?
There was all the more need, certainly, that she should help and cheer him, yet Anna felt vaguely disappointed, she hardly knew why.
She knew that she had committed a very grave fault in Mrs Forrest's sight, and she half wished that she had made up her mind to go to Dornton with Delia.
For her own part, she knew that not all the aunts and rules in the world would have kept her from paying him the attention that was his due.
All the flowers found here might be gathered, and Delia knew exactly where they all grew in their different seasons, and the best way of getting to them.
Delia knew that absent look of the Professor's well.
He knew so much more about the workings of the criminal mind than she did.
If only weknew the name of the missing actress--" "Is some actress missing?
Mr. Lawson knew an architect who drew up the plans and made an estimate.
Remembering the tour, Judy knewhow this effect was achieved.
We forgot to ask the guide if she knew what went wrong with it.
As soon as it was over red lights flashed above the exit doors, and Judy knew Golden Girl was on the air.
He glanced at the sleeping baby he was holding, and Judy knew what he was thinking.
Pauline whispered something to Flo as they filed out of church, and Judy knew Pauline had told Flo that Peter had been shot.
Her hair is golden just as I knew it was," Pauline whispered.
There were a number of things she knew she mustn't keep from him any longer.
Irene knew all the technicians and called them by their first names--the manager with his walkie-talkie, the boom man, the camera men and their helpers.
Lights blazed from almost every window, so she knewher mother must be there.
They were so angry when they found out I'd substituted for her that I knew my only chance was pretending I cared for them and wanted them to be my mother and father.
She knew the old fairy story by heart, and yet there was a moment when the play seemed so real that she wasn't at all sure the curse wouldn't come true.
So Ozma clung fast to the mane, and the lion crouched in the path and eyed the swinging mallet carefully until he knew just the instant it would begin to rise in the air.
It had black hair and dark eyes and a lovely pearl-and-white complexion, and when Langwidere wore it she knew she was remarkably beautiful in appearance.
Then the voices died away, and Billina knewthat the King and his Steward had left the room.
Tiktok wanted to go to Australia, too; but Dorothy knew that the machine man would never do for a servant in a civilized country, and the chances were that his machinery wouldn't work at all.
The thirty-seven people who were now alive in the rooms of the palace knew very well that they owed their freedom to the cleverness of the yellow hen, and they were earnest in thanking her for saving them from the magic of the Nome King.
For the Tin Woodman was a great favorite with all who knew him, and his sudden recovery after they had thought he was lost to them forever was indeed a pleasant surprise.
When the coop blew away from the ship I clung fast to this corner, with claws and beak, for I knew if I fell into the water I'd surely be drowned.
Perhaps no one on board had yet missed her, orknew of her strange adventure.
Once," said Dorothy, "I knew a man made out of tin, who was a woodman named Nick Chopper.
The Scarecrow and the Tin Woodman had also assisted her; but the Cowardly Lion, who ruled the great forest as the King of Beasts, knew nothing of Ozma until after she became the reigning princess of Oz.
But deep down in my youthful bosom, I knew that this obedience was only pretended, and that he obeyed merely because he was indifferent.
We knew every part of the horse as a man knows his face, and we knew every strap and buckle.
I knew every one of the six hundred, and I could have hugged each great black fellow as he trudged past.
It was clear that Peppers had reached the danger line, and, what was fatal to the plan of Ump, he knew it.
The trained cattle-horse knew very well what he was to do, and picked his way through the steers until he reached me.
I have already said that his mare knew more than any other animal in the Hills.
What need for the barbaric custom when every man knew his cattle as he knew his children?
Woodford had been holding the blue hills with his men, and weknew what it meant to go up against him.
After this halt of fifteen minutes Dick pressed forward without more delay until he came upon the settlement, at what time he knew not, but to the best of his belief it was hardly more than an hour past midnight.
Frightened though he was, Dick knew water was the one thing his father most needed; and laying the poor head gently back on the sand, he took the canteen from a bag which had served instead of a saddle.
The weapon was slung over his back where it would not impede his movements; and with a single glance backward he set out with a long, swinging stride such as he knew by experience he could maintain for many hours.
Then it was Dick knew the meaning of this terrible danger which threatened him.
The citizens had been exceedingly kind to him; but he had had no little experience with inhabitants of frontier towns, and knew that friendship might be changed to enmity very suddenly.
He knew his strength was spending rapidly; and when it seemed as if he could not take another step, he stumbled, and fell against a mound of sand.
He knew the pilot's helmet radio would reach Marsport and a helicopter would rescue him shortly.
Everybody knew everyone else well by then, which meant that Jonner and Qoqol, who had served together before, had become acquainted with T'an and Serj.
He was about to hurry in to offer his services when he heard Tom laugh, and then he knew it was all right.
Do you think Hardley knew that the gold had been changed to iron--that is, all but a small part of it?
He either knew then, or found out later, that the vessel carried, or was supposed to carry, a large amount of gold.
I think we may be certain that he knew these papers were aboard the Pandora, for he must have intrusted them to the purser himself when he made a trip on the ship.
But they knew they could take their time, though they did not want to waste many hours.
And if she was a treasure ship, and the huns knew it, they wouldn't leave any on board.
As it is--" He did not finish, but they all knew what he meant.
They left in a body; no one seemed to know exactly when they went, and no one knew anything about where they went, as they were never heard of again on any part of the continent.
Sheehan, whoknew the Indians who were subject to arrest.
Lodi was beaten, and as Nevada was the victor, and I knew all about Lexington, I wrote several essays on race horses in general and Norfolk in particular.
As to their wounded we knew nothing, but judging from the length and character of the engagement, and the number of their dead found, their casualties must have equalled, if not exceeded ours.
They had construed my anxiety to go on the stage into the belief that I knew them, and was after them, and had made my remark to the sheriff as a mere blind connected with some other scheme for their capture.
Everybody knew that the old man meant just what he said, and was always equipped to make good his promises.
I knew that any hostile demonstration would result in their murder.
Where the extra $320 came from, or where it went, I never knew nor cared.
Kittson knew Clerk Brown, who was then living on the St. Croix, near where Stillwater now stands, and furnishing the judge a horse, directed him how to find his clerk.
As his absence was prolonged, some of the advocates of the removal became uneasy, and sent to the enrollment committee for the bill, but none of them knew anything about it.
Mr. Barker could not help laughing at Charles's idea of the usefulness of a slave, and asked him if he knew exactly what slaves were.
The Egyptians knew it in early times by the name of Aûnrati, or Araûnti; it is mentioned in Assyrian inscriptions under the name of Arantû.
Sianu or Siani is mentioned in the Assyrian texts and in the Bible; Strabo knew it under the name of Sinna, and a village near Arka was called Sin or Syn as late as the XVth century.
They were never in a hurry, and would remain in one spot until they had exhausted all the resources of the country, while they knew to a nicety how to display their goods attractively before the expected customer.
Proof that the Egyptians knewthis route, followed even to this day in certain circumstances, is furnished by the lists of Thûtmosis III.
His pair of cedar birds look particularly happy as they balance upon their twigs and eye the camera as if they knew all about it.
Our fathers knew the joy of welcoming the latest novel of Dickens or a new volume of essays by Carlyle.
He knew more about what ought to be done with the world than any of his contemporaries.
Tolstoy had one great battle with himself which divided his life into two main periods, and after the struggle his philosophy, whatever its worth, was fairly settled, and he knew how to express it clearly over and over again.
When he wrote "War and Peace" he knew only aristocrats, or was chiefly interested in them.
Only a few kickers knew how rotten it was, or had courage to express their sense of the prevalent putrescence.
The Thunderstorm" plays upon an old theme, one that Strindberg knew by experience, the failure of marriage between an elderly man and a young woman.
Swift was not incapable, in that sense, and he knew the nature of her desires, for he was not a fool.
He went abroad whenever he wanted to go, and never knew what it was to be down to his last dollar.
They had literary gifts, they knew Italian, and they were able to appreciate a universal mind.
In one place Conrad says, "We knew that we were fated, before the ebb began to run, to hear about one of Marlow's inconclusive experiences.
Unless he means by that that Swift knew that there was something in his constitution which made the ultimate realization of love impossible.
He knew equally well the heart of a lady in the high life of Moscow, and the soul of a peasant woman.
The duchess, recovering from her wonder, confirmed the news by saying that she now knew why M.
It amused Carlo; he knew when his mother was really angry with persons she tried to shield from the anger of others; and her not seeing the wrong on his side in his behaviour to his betrothed was laughable.
She knew that he went to join Carlo after he had quitted her.
The story, as Vittoria knew it, had a different, though yet a dreadful, colour.
Beaten off, they escaped up the Val di Ledro, and secretly entered Trent, where they hoped to spread revolt, but the Austrian commandant knew what a quantity of dry wood was in the city, and stamped his heel on sparks.
She had, as she told her daughter, fretted so much on her account that she hardly knew whether she was glad to see her.
Agostino replied to her quick look at him, "I stay;" and it seemed like a little saved from the wreck, for she knew that she could speak to Agostino as she could not to the countess.
Forced to speak plainly, Adela confessed she thought she knew the nature of that something.
Unless, for instance, the person already knew certain characteristics of both birds and animals, he could not interpret the ornithorhynchus as a bird-beaked animal.
A Form IV class had been studying decimals and knew how to read and write, add and subtract them.
I knew not, and I care not," said the knight impatiently.
But Thomas de Vaux was no courtier; the phrase which had offered had risen spontaneously to his lips, and he knew not how to pursue the pleasing theme so as to soothe and prolong the vein which he had excited.
I would that I knew something to pleasure thee, which I might yield as freely as the natural fountain sends forth its waters.
Why, God-a-mercy, I knew what he desired as soon as ever he entered the pavilion!
Berengaria well knew the power of her charms and the extent of Richard's affection, and felt assured that she could make her own terms good, now that the first tremendous explosion of his anger had expended itself without mischief.
Then did mother unholy to son that knew not abase her, Shamefully, fear'd not unholy the blessed dead to dishonour.
And they ate him up--took every trace away except the bones; and no one knew it, nor no sound of him was ever heard!
I knew that I was big and strong, and they knew it, too.
Even his own servants never knew when to expect him, for there was a private door, of which he alone had the key, by which he sometimes entered without anyone in the house being aware of his coming.
He had been partially educated for the ministry, but for some cause which no one ever knew threw up his prospects suddenly, and, going to Peterhead in its days of whaling prosperity, had there taken service on a whaler.
Before and around the hut were at a little distance some shadowy forms; they were quite still, but I knew that they were all alert and on guard.
Now I knew the full extent of my danger: I was watched and surrounded by desperate people!
A week after I found his cottage deserted, and on asking at the works was told that he had 'gone north', no one exactly knew whither.
Prudence whispered: 'Be still and make no sign,' and so I was still and made no sign, for I knew that four cunning eyes were on me.
I knew the site of the hut and the hill behind it up which I had rushed, and in the flickering glow the eyes of the rats still shone with a sort of phosphorescence.
The projecting rock hid the light on the Flagstaff Rock, but heknew his way too well to miss it.
I had to keep my eyes pretty well on the ground before me, lest I should stumble, for I knew that to stumble was death.
I knew where I was now and where lay the road to Paris!
He began to pull, and shortly he knew from the rope taken in that the man he was now rescuing must soon be close to the top of the rock.
I had, I felt, gained an advantage in the last few seconds, for I knew my danger and understood the situation.
Far off to the right rose some dark mass, but what it was I knew not.
St. Luke knew merely the exterior public life of which man had cognisance.
They only knew that their Master had told them to pray, and had promised to answer sincere prayer, as He alone knew how; and so they gathered themselves in instant ceaseless prayer at the foot of the throne of grace.
Cornelius had set himself, therefore, to the diligent discharge of all the duties of religion so far as he knew them.
At any rate his friend and pupil Theophilus had simply asked him for a narrative so far as he knew it of the progress of the gospel.
He had been admitted into Christ's most intimate friendship, he knew much of his Lord's will and mind.
He knewthat Festus would be anxious to gratify the Jewish authorities in any way he possibly could.
He knew that God's promises are conditional upon man's exertions, and therefore he urged his companions to be fellow-workers with God in the matter of their own salvation from impending death.
Silence concerning any special point is sometimes used as a proof that a particular writer knew nothing about it.
The Easterns knew nothing of Aristotle, and his methods availed nothing to their minds.
Grace knew that the principal was still displeased with her.
She dared not answer, as Miss Ames was very strict, and she knew that to be caught whispering meant two originals to work out, and Nora hated originals.
Grace, who knew the scene by heart, went fearlessly forward, and read the lines with splendid emphasis.
I thought no one outside knew the name of our society as yet," said Jessica as she opened the end of the envelope.
She opened it, read it through, and an expression of such intense scorn passed over her face that Nora, who sat near her and who was covertly watching her, knew at once that Grace's flag of truce had been trampled in the dust.
I never heard of anything more unjust than the way she accused us, when weknew nothing about her old plan," said Marian Barber.
Still, on the whole, Grace felt glad that so far no one knew the truth.
I wanted her to play Rosalind, and I knew she could do it.
By the time school was over for the day, the girls of the Phi Sigma Tau knew that Eleanor had once more repudiated their overtures of friendship and were curious to see what she had written.
If she knew he was the great Savelli, she would rush off and join him to-morrow, she is so impulsive.
She had done very well and Miss Tebbs had praised her work, though in her secret heart Eleanor knew that Anne's work was finer than her own.
He is head over heels in football practice and has forgotten he ever knew Jessica.
She knew the principal would insist on an apology from Eleanor, and neither she nor her friends wished it.
His fright had stunned him so that he hardly knew what had happened.
The tongue had been torn from the roots, and no one knew what had become of it.
Fred Allerton was still a handsome man, and he knew from long experience how easy it was to say pleasant things to a woman.
I've refused to face it, and I put the thought away from me, but I knew really that it must come to that.
To his acquaintance he might seem hard and unsympathetic, he might repel by his taciturnity and anger by his sternness; but his comrades knew how eminent were his qualities.
They knew the unselfishness which considered the comfort of the meanest porter before his own; and his tenderness to those who were ill knew no bounds.
He was deeply interested in Alec's attitude, for he knewhim well enough to be convinced that his discreet gaiety was entirely assumed.
There was a horrible silence, but they allknew what he had to tell them.
He knew himself to be an object of intense suspicion, and he could not trust even the petty rulers who were bound to him by ties of gratitude and friendship.
But if ever sheknew that he had sent George to his death she would hate him.
While she was waiting, she heard Lucy come downstairs and knew that she meant to wish her good-morning.
It required a good deal of energy to keep their friendship on a light footing, for she knew that he had been in love with her since he was eighteen.
The pride which for so long had been a characteristic of the Allertons, but had unaccountably missed Fred, in her enjoyed all its force; and what she knew now served only to augment it.
What he had only suspected before, he knew now from her own lips; and it was harder than ever to bear.
But Mrs. Crowley was a sensible woman and soon made up her mind that if she could not live without the man--though heaven only knew why she wanted him--she had better take steps to secure his presence.
He held himself more proudly because he knew that thenceforward he must rely on his own resources, and success or failure depended only on himself.
But I don't suppose any of us knew it would be such a tough job as it's turned out.
And when she realised that it was really true, her grief knew no bounds.
The quick colour answered this, as he knew it would.
If you knewhow I envy you that look you would be quite satisfied with your old clothes," said Martha, generously.
Leaver and Mrs. Burns fell to discussing life in a certain great city, as bothknew it from quite different standpoints, and she herself had only to listen and observe.
Quite without seeing she knewhow his face looked, the fine face with the eyes which seemed to see so much, the firm yet sensitive mouth, the whole virile personality held in a powerful restraint.
But she knew it, and she smiled at him, understanding--and sympathizing.
If I knew all these people's affairs, or if I knew none of them, I shouldn't discuss them with you.
But this, though reassuring, he knew could not be trusted as an absolute indication of control within.
She knew well enough that nobody could give her greater aid or inspiration in her work than Eugene Brant, whose signature upon any portrait meant approval in the large world where he was known.
I knew it would be a beautiful room, if you saw to it, but I had no possible notion how beautiful it would be.
It couldn't be possible, of course, but it had sounded like one she knew in its every inflection, one which did not belong to any of her nearby friends.
I knewnot that contention could be rendered so sweet and pleasurable a thing to the nerves as I then felt it.
The only remedy he knewfor any savages' dangerous notion was to turn their minds to something more startling.
Anthony knew that; but he decided as his gang of workmen reached the heights, threw down their loads and panted for breath, that they had done enough for the present.
No one knew when he laid his head on his pillow at night whether he would still be wearing it in the morning.
Sieur La Salle knew that the peace of the valley might be broken at any time.
Anthony trusted to the intimacy of two days and a night to learn from the Chickasaw all he knew that might serve the French in their distress.
He winked at a really handsome young Indian standing near him and knew by a single exchange of glances that this fellow was of the same opinion.
If, as the night grew cold and his bonds cut painfully and his captors looked more and more like the red demons they were, his courage thinned and he shed a few tears of weariness and self-pity, no one knew it.
Who knew better than Anthony how to make merry with one glance?
As Anthony recoiled from the wriggling mites he knew by the stirring of his curls that the Indian might be justified in his dread of the manitou.
He knew that many more such distasteful meals would have to be provided ere they worked their way up from the swamp lands and out of starvation into the productive regions and into touch with the world.
Sieur DuLuth knew the uncertain temper of the Sioux.
Anthony knew him, picked him up and supported him, gently bathing his drawn face and questioning him.
Susan knew the brown velveteen coat, though the red tie was hidden under the upturned collar.
Just one peep into the empty dog kennel, and Phil heard the side door shut, and knew that Susan would be there in a moment.
I never knew anything like it," scolded Letty, with her mouth full.
Now that she knew she was going home shortly, she looked about her with fresh pleasure.
Letty little knew how truly she spoke when she said "you never can tell what will happen.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "knew" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
