Carlyle says: "I never knew a clever man who came out of entirely stupid people.
I never knew a man yet to begin a love affair with a panegyric on virtue.
I never knew; I never knew," protested Miss Saidie, going back to her chair beside the hearth.
Not for wives, Pathfinder; I never knew an old man, now, who had an objection to a young wife.
Because I never knewmy own worthlessness, perhaps, until I saw Mabel.
I never knew an honest-minded Mingo,--one that you could put faith in, if he had a temptation to deceive you.
Last night I desired Lord Treasurer to do something for that brother of Sacheverell's: he said he never knew he had a brother, but thanked me for telling him, and immediately put his name in his table-book.
When I went there, they had almost dined; for the Duke had sent to excuse himself, which I never knew.
I never knew such a stove; and in my conscience I believe both my lord and she, my Lord Treasurer, Mr. Secretary, and myself have all suffered by it.
I tell you what comes into my head, that I never knew whether MD were Whigs or Tories, and I value our conversation the more that it never turned on that subject.
Still all I prize, Laughter and thought and friends, I have; No fool to heave luxurious sighs For the woods and hills that I never knew.
For what they'd never told me of, And what I never knew; It was that all the time, my love, Love would be merely you.
What the General had said Strickland never knew, but Youghal received Strickland with moderate civility; and Mrs. Youghal, touched by the devotion of the transformed Dulloo, was almost kind.
I never knewsuch a woman for scrubbing and cleaning--it seems to make her happy somehow.
What their talk had been I never knew, for the subject was too painful to be dwelt upon, and the conversation had been marked by frankness on both sides.
I never knew what it was to care for a woman before, I tell you.
He started roughly to shoulder his way out, and whether from accident or design Captain Harrod slipped in front of him, I never knew.
After they have had several Children, they grow strangely out of Shape in their Bodies; As for Barrenness, I never knew any of their Women, that have not Children when marry'd.
I never knew her do it when company was present, at which time you may freely trust her with wines, spirits, or malt liquors.
I never knew what it was to live till I hit hoboin'.
I have been in many ports, but I never knew a passing touch of love until I saw you that first night.
When another man might have been supposed to have dismissed the subject he said, "Well, I never knew a Mulbridge that objected to good looks in women folks.
Speaking in such a manner, we perceive that La Boetie had been some time dead.
Moreover, the physical man is a reality, and the moral man problematical.
Only after three days of persistent struggle do they manage to obtain a response from Olwen's father, who attaches his daughter's hand to conditions apparently impossible of realisation.
Let us say however that in the idea of envisaging the esteem of a woman as the highest object of human activity, and setting up love as the supreme principle of morality, there is nothing of the antique spirit, or indeed of the Teutonic.
Moses was sent from God even though the sanction of his law only extended to this life.
How he lived I never knew, but Harley believed he had some small but settled income, sufficient to enable him to kill himself in comfort with the black pills.
He never knew of my existence, this big, red booby.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "never knew" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
