Tis almost four and fifty years Since you, with many sighs and tears, Bade farewell to home and friends, Not knowing what your life might be, With only faith in God and love for me.
Thus we were successful in gaining our case by knowing when it was best to do nothing.
He stood before the audience, knowing that his fate as a candidate for the presidency was forever sealed, but he never flinched or gave any evidence whatever of his disappointment.
Not knowing that greater delights await him once he has penetrated beneath the surface, he has doggedly combated every effort to eliminate the irrelevant accretions.
In consequence Renoir blossomed forth free from aggressive influences, knowing his own limitations and possibilities.
Forain we have a man of different stamp, one who, knowing his ability for certain things, clings to them and does not attempt to thrust himself into the rank of artist.
Knowing that organised form is the basis of all aesthetic emotion, the old masters strove to find the psychological principles for co-ordinating volume.
He saw his work put to these uses tranquilly, knowing that later he would do better, that he would "realise" more fully.
However, I never think anything withoutknowing it, and I know very few things, needless to say.
Then knowing that Mama was American, the whole thing is clear in a natural way.
Not quite the same is life, since we two parted, Knowing it best to go our ways alone.
Muriel reluctantly produced the letter in the West Brookshire Gazette, knowing that in the natural course of things Diana must see it on the morrow.
But it is, of course, clear that my son proposed to her, notknowing what it was essential that he should know.
What reasonable man, knowing what money means, and the power of it, but must have flinched a little under such a test as had been offered to him?
She was like a person struggling against some torturing restraint, not knowing where to turn for help.
She pleaded--not without tears--to be given the happiness of knowing they were pledged, and her Muriel safe in harbor.
He accepted a brief in this murder case, ten years later, not knowing her identity, and they met for the first time when he went to see her with her solicitor in prison.
She immediately embraced Ethel on getting into bed and endeavored to interlace their legs, which somewhat surprised the new pupil, and made her keep them close together, not knowing the meaning of such proceedings.
The touch was electric, a shiver of desire ran through her whole frame, as her fingers seemed to grasp the lovely jewel without knowing what she was about; her eyes closed and she sank back apparently shocked and helpless on the seat.
There are many ways to find the compass points, but when a man doesn't know what direction he wants to travel, what good is there in knowing which is north and east?
A pipe may be lighted that way very easily, something that is worth knowing if one happens to get caught in the woods without matches and with a magnifying glass in his pocket.
Directions by the sun can be learned with much greater accuracy if one has a watch, for knowing the time of day exactly he should know just how far the sun is from the zenith at that time and thus easily locate the true south.
Not knowing what to make of the figure that advanced upon him, Tom Chuff recoiled, stumbled, and fell backward into the open grave.
As insanity is the more affecting when we observe its victim to be unconscious of the visitation, so does my heart bleed most particularly for the Martyr Sex, when I observe them undergoing severe oppressions without knowing it.
They were perfectly tame, knowing nothing of men, and having had no experience of disturbance.
He was nursing the injured member, wondering whether to kick at Lizzie with it, knowing full well that he stood a good chance of her kicking back again' but when she snapped viciously at the puffing sheriff he decided against it.
Ah Sing, will you tell me what happened," she asked, knowingwell that a command would only elicit a stolid "No savvey.
Thoughtful, knowing people realize that a child that weighs eight pounds or more at birth is an indication of maternal law breaking.
The true scientist in the healing art is he who can take an invalid and by the use of the means at his command bring him back to health, not in an accidental manner, but in such a knowing way that he can predict the outcome.
When I staggered up to a group of the men, they turned on me like tigers, not knowing what kind of an animal I was.
Stung to madness by defeat, knowing that if taken alive a gibbet awaited him, the rover had fired the magazine, involving friend and foe in a common fate.
To me it seems clear that the reason why young Homfray was not killed outright was because, knowing of the impending concession, they watched their opportunity to obtain it," said Mr Sandys.
I know he would not object to my knowingyour son if we had been properly introduced.
He held the receiver above the level of the waters in breathless expectancy, knowing that if water entered the box its sensibility would at once be destroyed.
And further, I have not the pleasure of knowing your friend.
Afterwards, knowing that her lover could not reply, she went out to meet her father who had already telephoned across to the chauffeur to get the car ready.
But it is you who have goaded him to do this--to take this action, well knowing that at the moment I cannot pay.
And taking his hat, he stalked out of the fine library, well knowing himself to be the conqueror.
Knowing her to be a good Christian, he sent her his Dialogues.
They[61] object canons to us, not knowing what they say, for these they break by the very fact that they decline to obey the first see when it gives sound and good advice.
Nevertheless, knowing you as I do, I believe it to be my best course to allow you to judge for yourself as to the improbability of his possessing any valuable secret.
He gazed vaguely and mournfully about him, as if he missed something precious, and missed it the more drearily for not knowing precisely what it was.
He stared at Hepzibah a moment, as an elder customer than himself would have been likely enough to do, not knowing what to make of the tragic attitude and queer scowl wherewith she regarded him.
Knowing that his uncle did not die by violence, it may not have occurred to him, in the hurry of the crisis, that such an inference might be drawn.
They have been pouring through here, many of those who were well-to-do a few months since, hardly knowing how to find food for their families.
Not knowing where we were, I proposed to Captain Elliot we should go to the banks of the Vaal and follow the river till we came to the proper punt.
There was another incident of my first day which I think will amuse you, knowing how I have always shrunk from any sort of public appearances.
I laughed and said I lived here, and I introduced my husband as well as I could withoutknowing her name.
XIV The scene has changed again, Dolly, and six months have elapsed without your knowing it.
As an adoptive Altrurian, and knowingthe American ideas from our point of view, should you respect their ideas of social inequality?
Every effort was made to save every person accessible, and we have the satisfaction of knowing that fully 200 were saved from cremation.
While not knowing his chance of life or death he heard the plaintive cry of a child near by.
I drifted and swam all night, not knowing where I was going or in what direction.
The soldiers had no way of knowing by what authority the men were acting with these badges, and would listen to no excuses.
Now Mr. Crewe had no means of knowing whether Senator Whitredge had been in conference with Mr. Braden or not.
She recognized this quality as inborn, but, not knowing of Sarah Austen, she wondered where he got it.
I should have been presuming upon an accidental acquaintance, which I had no means of knowing you wished to continue," he replied, staring at his horse's head.
He himself was at length prevailed upon to be taken in a rough homespun suit, and with a walking-stick in his hand, appraising with a knowing eye a flock of his own sheep.
I feel quite happy in knowing that you, as the son of a gentleman, Antony, will hold all that you have heard quite sacred.
The time has come when I must insist upon knowing the meaning of these frequent absences on Linny's part.
I'm surprised at you, Master Antony, ringing the bells like that, knowinghow busy I am.
Still I did not feel safe, knowingthat at any moment Mr Blakeford might overtake me in his pony-chaise, when, unless I could escape by running off across country, I should be ignominiously dragged back.
Antony," she cried imperiously, and her handsome eyes flashed as she stamped her foot; "I insist upon knowing the meaning of those words.
She was angry and jealous the night she came and found Linny here attending on Revitts," I cried in a bewildered way, hardlyknowing what I said.
You let that weak, foolish child keep appointments with a stranger, and without my knowledge-- without my knowing it, who stand to her in the place of a father.
This took him some little time, during which we all sat very still, Mr Peter giving me a very knowing look or two in the interval.
It was horrible to me now, that John Lister should be allowed to keep up ties with my patroness, knowing what I did of his character; and yet I felt could not, I dared not, tell.
I must have them back," I thought; and I started off to retrace my steps at a run, knowing that I had come at least a couple of miles.
He was like a man suddenly reprieved, but giddy with the shock, and feeling the halter still round his neck, and knowing that he had himself undermined the ground on which he was standing.
Lucilla had the advantage of knowing what she could do, and accordingly she was not surprised when people found it remarkable.
I dare say you will feel a little strange at first with not knowingthe people, but that will soon pass off--and you must come.
As for the Doctor, he forgot all about his chestnuts, and sat and stared at her, thinking in his ignorance that it was a piece of acting, and not knowing whether to be angry or to yield to the amusement which began to rise in his breast.
She dropped into her chair without knowing it, and probably would have fainted this time also, if something more urgent than mere "feelings" had not roused her up.
And I shall be knowing all of your life, its joys, its happy toil and its sweet rest, its lights and its passing shadows.
He had the added worry of knowing Kathrien did not really love him.
Then, with an awkwardness strangely foreign to his normal grace, he took the hand in both his own and stood a moment, looking down at it as though not knowing what to do with it.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "knowing" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
