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Example sentences for "nobody knew"

  • Nobody knew, she argued, and nobody would have cause to suspect.

  • And, as I said, nobody knew; nobody helped her; the months of that winter rolled slowly and gloomily over her.

  • Pitt inquired at the post office; but, as he more than half expected, nobody knew anything of Colonel Gainsborough's address.

  • How Faith would have liked to shut up the trunk then and run away--nobody knew!

  • Nobody knew it; her head drooped, and the colour rose again to be sure; but one hand sheltered the exposed cheek and the other was turned to the fire.

  • It looked as if there was some event about to take place that was highly interesting to all parties, who were peaceably assembling to witness the interment of nobody knew who.

  • Even the jocose man was as supernaturally solemn as could be well imagined; indeed, nobody knew he was the same man.

  • One foggy day in December last he gave us the slip; and was off to the continent, nobody knew where.

  • All the crew were on board, with the exception of some few who had been allowed their leave on shore, and who were away in the interior of the island, nobody knew where.

  • Nobody knew, except Takma himself, now that poor Roelofsz was dead.

  • How they came to be so, nobody knew; but there they were, and we all bowed down to them.

  • If she was related to herself, if she was a dependent, nobody knew; her manner gave no clue at all to the mystery.

  • He always yielded up his little newly bought morsel of luxury to Peter, and went home to his shoes without it; however, nobody knew.

  • We were regularly boxed up with the diggers, nobody knew who we were, or where we came from, and only for this Jezebel never would have known.

  • Nobody knew it, and that was pretty nigh as good as if it wasn't true.

  • Nobody knew who he'd been, or almost where he had come from--next to nothing about him had ever come out.

  • If her heart gave way, nobody knew it but God and John.

  • As to spelling, nobody knew how to spell in those days.

  • In a minute he was gone--nobody knew where.

  • Such things were occasionally picked up on Nepenthe; nobody knew to whom they belonged.

  • Nobody knew when it first came into vogue.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    adult female; brave soldier; calling them; constitutional liberty; distinction must; false witness; full face; large salt; little older; might still; minimum rates; missing link; more power; nobody could; nobody else; nobody ever; nobody knew; nobody knows; nobody would; other cause; petroleum products; polished rice; said before; stay right; strong grower; throws himself