The lowest, least blessed fact one knows of, on which necessitous mortals have ever based themselves, seems to be the primitive one of Cannibalism: That I can devour Thee.
She knows so little of it, knows so much of what obstructed it, what would have rendered it impossible.
To the last, it has to strive with contradictions: it is now getting fast ready with a Constitution, yet knows no peace.
Down in those dark dens, in those dark heads and hungry hearts, who knows in what strange figure the new Political Evangel may have shaped itself; what miraculous 'Communion of Drudges' may be getting formed!
And now a third peril; and who knowswhat may be in it!
Of Nanci and its heats, Bouille, commander of the whole, knows nothing special; understands generally that the troops in that City are perhaps the worst.
One knows not: only this one seems to know, that 'the Keeper of the Stoves was appointed by Bertrand' or by some underling of his!
How the sleek Pache might mine and undermine, one knows not well; this however one does know: that his War-Office has become a den of thieves and confusion, such as all men shudder to behold.
God alone knows the force he put upon himself not to take her in his arms and comfort her on his breast; not to pour into her ears the words that were burning his heart out.
I am older than you, and God knows I've earned my experience.
He looked a young man, and his face unfurled the banner of wrath that knows no nation, but calls all the earth its own.
Nobody knows where she went to, unless it's Stapfer.
If she knows all those things she sho' cain' think yo' a plumb angel.
God knows I would be counted among the poor and the desolate," he cried, softly, to himself.
That compelling threat she knows who recognizes that the one dearest to her on earth must die.
He knows Ah could tell the sto'keeper the whereabouts o' a pipe in his still-house that don' run into no sto'house.
I loved to be with my mother; yet I never felt, even when she died--and God knows I felt bad enough then!
She knows exactly what I am in health and prospects; so why shouldn't I?
You’ll tell me perhaps, that this is ridiculous, because everybodyknows it.
Which has more right to rule, think ye, he that only knows the laws, or he that maintains them?
Now the world, that knows our palate and inclination, never fails to feed the humour, and to flatter and entertain us with all sorts of change and novelty, as the most certain method of gaining upon our affections.
Small service would I be to you, and little glory would I win as an officer, when the meanest legionary knows much that I may learn.
A Greek would say that it was always darkest before Eos leaves the couch of Tithonus,[75] and who knows that our Helios is not soon to dawn and be a long, long time ere his setting?
My throat hardly knows the feeling of good Falernian, it is so long since I have tasted any.
No one knows what will be the issue of the war, for Pompeius is making off.
Who knows what trouble may come to me from this day's doings?
If our mistress knows that her commands are unexecuted, it is we, who are but slaves, that must suffer!
The book we see and read, but probably not one man in ten thousand knows anything about the Engine.
A subtile knowledge steals over him that he cannot analyze or define, but in his soul he knows this magnificent woman could love him now with a passion that would almost sweep the very soul out of him.
But heknows that he did not love her deeply, and the consciousness will always give him a little shock.
He knows nothing, of course, of the episode with Cecil, and thinks the only motive is the chance to get back the money he has been advancing on every hand.
That rather stings the pale, listless woman on the lounge, who knows her mother's ambition has been sorely crossed by these single daughters.
She knows the names and eras of china, and has discrimination.
Mr. Latimer knows just how to entertain her, and he entertains her for his own pleasure as well.
Mrs. Grandon is lighter of heart now that she knows she is not to be deposed immediately.
Mrs. Grandon knows what is delightful; let us follow her example and sit here on the porch.
A knock at the half-open door rouses him, but before he answers he knowsit is Wilmarth.
She esteemed that as love, but she knowsbetter now, sad, sad wisdom!
I should suppose the servants might be trusted, and surely Marcia knows enough to order a meal.
Floyd Grandon knows who entered the hall a moment ago and who now emerges in the soft light.
Quite a collection of classical music, and he knows his way around it too--at least he knowsmore about it than I do.
I'm afraid of the guy; I got the feeling he knowsexactly what he's doing and why.
No wonder," replied the witty but relentless barrister, "every one knows the older a lamb grows the more sheepish he becomes.
The Colonel is the fittest man in the world, as everybody knows his bravery.
I am writing what has occurred here to the Council, and as one who knows your Grace's zeal, I have no need to urge the necessity here of having a man come as governor who is known to fear God.
Although I have equal liking and respect for all the Council, as for Señor the licentiate Molina de Medrano, he best knows my heart and my soul, as he has had closer association with me.
In the one case a barangay and four soldiers mutinied and went away, no one knows where.
Everything that he has said he knowsto be the truth, according to the oath he has sworn.
This witness knows all of this to be true, because he was at Malaca at the time.
He knows that the king captures ships on the sea, and goes about robbing the neighboring kingdoms, impeding trade, commerce, and free passage, and disturbing the peace on the seas.
He knows more about these islands and countries than many even of those who remain.
It knows itself to be a great dunce, and that it has no opinions but upon suggestion.
He knows his mother mud is cleansing; he rolls partly because he loves her and partly because he wishes to be clean.
Something is dropped in the course of conversation that gives a hint of your profession and pursuits; or from having some one with you that knows the less sublime portions of your history, it seems that other people do.
It is a vile cold-scrag-of-mutton sophism; a lie palmed upon the palate, which knows better things.
Not only that, but the vast armies of dead would overflow the hills and valleys beyond the city, and would stretch away all round it, God knows how far.
This miracle is their appointed task; which they must accomplish, or die wretchedly: this miracle has been accomplished by such; but not in our land; our land yet knows not of it.
I am free of the corporation, and care not who knows it.
Among other characteristics, is not this manifest enough: that it knows itself?
The artificial Society is precisely one that knows its own structure, its own internal functions; not in watching, not in knowing which, but in working outwardly to the fulfilment of its aim, does the wellbeing of a Society consist.
Nobody knows of their charitableness, but themselves.
Nor knows he who it is his arms pursue With eager clasps, but loves he knows not who.
In order to know what an other knows, and in the same manner in which he knows it.
What a casuist is he, who dares pretend conscience for practising that which he knows and acknowledges to be wrong!
Who knows not how the trembling judge beheld The peaceful court with arm~ed legions fill'd?
He who does any thing which he knows is wrong, ventures on dangerous ground.
To a conjunction; as, "He knows better than to trust you.
In the following exercise let the pupil first point out the nouns, and then the adjectives; and tell how he knows them to be so.
The truth of any doctrine in science, can be nothing else than its conformity to facts, or to the nature of things; and chiefly by what he knows of the things themselves, must any one judge of what others say concerning them.
O, happy is the maid whose life takes end Ere it knows parent's frown or loss of friend!
Go, lovely Rose, Tell her that wastes her time and me, That now she knows When I resemble her to thee, How sweet and fair she seems to be.
Heaven knowsthis was a wish long gnawing at my bones!
On the border, everyone knows that my mates and I are going to the gold fields.
Captain Kidd lies, and very well knows that he lies, when he asserts that I wish to accompany him in his journey.
Rest easy, anyway," he said, dropping down again in that favourite attitude of the veteran frontiersman, who knows that the prowling Indian will scarce resist the temptation to shoot an arrow at the sentry who is visible upright.
Besides, you have the experience which I lack, and who knows but that your comments on my story may be of service.
The great God journeys on in His tremendous orbit, and who knows from what unlikely peoples the rejuvenation of the world is to come?
But faith knows that one battle is not the end of the world.
Now every student of the apostle Paul knows that he is an optimist.
The First President, whom all the world knows to be our adversary, should go out if we must.
He knows the will and nature of the supernatural Powers and is therefore a necessity to men.
The prophet also, in the rôle in which he appears among the Greeks, is a development out of the old magician; he knows the will of the gods and is thus able to predict events.
I am that heart of frost and flame That knows but one desire--the Truth.
That is sure to be good, for Lady Harriet knows nobody, so she can't ask the wrong people, and her list of invitations is in the hands of Augustus Savile.
The suppliant replies that he knows from his own experience what such a counsel means, but has found it himself to be no longer practicable.
For the spiritual man knows that his labor for others insures of himself the results that are best.
God knows, God knows if it be true, she meets him there.
The Wall Street man rarely knows in what year Columbus discovered America, and would be in straits wild enough to horrify that talented arch-prig, Mr. Andrew Lang, if you mentioned either Cortes or Pizarro.
If this be so, then is it true that every soul must find its counterpart, since God does not work by half, and knowsno bungling in His work.
But to the philosopher, who knows the laws of human nature, to every scholar who knows the actual history of the Bible, these positions seem only self-evident.
Aye, he believes it, knows it, for the old temptation assails him no more forever.
God knows best," I heard him whisper, hardly above his breath.
Dost here says that if we have him carried to a house in the town about a quarter of a mile away, he knows people who will nurse him.
The whole city is in revolt against your people; the sepoy regiment has slain all its officers, and your own men are scattered Heaven knows where.
His highness would punish me, and my lord knows it is no fault of mine his coming.
Heaven knows I don't want to destroy life; but we are fighting for our queen and country, and for the thousands of women and children who may soon be at the mercy of these men.
You remember, Phyllis, how often she has talked to us about gypsies, and what a lot she knows about them?
She has made me see that in concealing my knowledge I was acting wrongly, and whatever pain has come to me in the matter, she now knows all.
The sad thing is that Annie is in high fever, and knows no one.
Lord knows I'm done with relations from this day on," she said slowly but with great distinctness.
Every man aboard has his work laid out for him, and each knows what he is to do.
Nature knows how to garnish a ruin to get the best effect.
I had learned to take it for granted that anybody in Germany who knows anything, knows English, so I had stopped afflicting people with my German.
Baedeker knows all about hotels, railway and diligence companies, and speaks his mind freely.
Next, the butter--the sham and tasteless butter; no salt in it, and made of goodness knows what.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "knows" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
