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Example sentences for "knows nothing"

  • He knows nothing of his own destination he says--but desires me to write directly--as the Endymion will probably sail in three or four days.

  • I could not say No when he asked me, but he knows nothing more of it.

  • Of his promotion he knows nothing; of prizes he is guiltless.

  • Such a one will take his part in conversation though he knows nothing, and, when inquired into, he will own that he knows nothing.

  • He knows nothing of my love, and cares nothing for me.

  • But he knows nothing of logic, which is the science of straight thinking, and his views of things have therefore no value; they are nebulous.

  • In the light of day it may assail the very strongholds of law in the heart of a populous city, and assassinate prisoners of whose guilt it knows nothing.

  • The agnostic by research has proved that he knows nothing, and there he stops; there may or may not be.

  • If he knows nothing by heart, he knows a great deal from experience.

  • He knows why his own things belong to him and those of another person do not, and beyond this he knows nothing.

  • I do not care if he knows nothing, so long as he is not mistaken.

  • Not only is it maintained that A knows nothing of B, because he says nothing of B; but it is further assumed that A knows nothing of B, because C does not say that A says anything of B.

  • He knows nothing of our Canonical Gospels, and he uses exclusively the Gospel of the Hebrews.

  • Do not trample upon these people because they have a different conception of things about which even this committee knows nothing.

  • Religion asks man to give up this world for one he knows nothing about.

  • The average man believes implicitly in the religion of his country, because he knows nothing of any other and has no desire to know.

  • He knows the number of feet in a verse, and of acts in a play; but of the soul or spirit he knows nothing.

  • He can translate the same word into ten different languages, but he knows nothing of the thing which it means in any one of them.

  • As I say, he knows nothing, and he shall know nothing if you do as I wish.

  • He knows nothing of it, I'll stake my life.

  • As far as I am concerned, he knows nothing.

  • It is a wrong to his reputation to be ignorant of anything; and yet he knows not that he knows nothing.

  • He endeavours to show his wisdom in nothing more than in appearing very much unsatisfied with the present manage of State affairs, although he knows nothing of the reasons.

  • He possesses him with his own praises like an evil spirit, that makes him swell and appear stronger than he was, talk what he does not understand, and do things that he knows nothing of when he comes to himself.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    come right; common justice; contend with; dear abbe; deceased persons; early summer; executive order; foreign assistance; general intelligence; haired cadet; knows nothing; knows that; knows what; local preacher; mistaken identity; popularly supposed; sensible woman; sixteen miles; social insurance; sufficient quantities; under different; virtuous life; what would you think; would laugh