I once knew a king who invariably curried his horses in his royal robes; and if the steeds didn't stand around to suit him, he would ever and anon welt them in the pit of the stomach with his cast-iron sceptre.
I once knew a plug hat that had been respected by everyone, and had won its way upward by steady endeavor.
I once knew a youth who wore himself out telling people all he knew from day to day, so that when he became a bald-headed man he was utterly exhausted and didn't have anything left to tell anyone.
I once knew a young man with the most gentle and trustful nature.
I once knew a wife who went down town to price a new dolman, and because she was vexed about something she did not kiss her husband but slammed the door and left him.
I once knew a long-tailed glossy starling (Lamprotornis caudatus) which shared an aviary with an accomplished albino jackdaw.
I once knew a general alarm to be communicated throughout a large herd by the sign language, and a retreat organized and carried out in absolute silence.
I once knew a young nobleman who went twice to church on Sunday--in the morning and the afternoon.
I once knew a woman who fell down dead because she found a live mouse in the pocket of her gown.
I once knew a man whose fingers and toes too were tied together that way!
You have a look so like a man I once knew,--and your brother has something of the same!
I ought to know that laugh," cried a voice I at once knew to be my friend O'Shaughnessy's.
I once knew an incident which might have figured in these scenes, and which would, I think, have pleased Théo.
I never heard of a ship called by it, but I once knew a poor lady on whom it had been inflicted at her baptism.
I once knew an excellent gentleman, of old lineage and fair fortune, who used to say that for his part he could not tell mutton from venison or Marsala from Madeira, and he thanked God for it.
I once knewan amateur photographer quite well,” said the girl with classic profile, “but for each photograph he took of me I made one of him!
I once knew an awfully nice man, who turned out to be an amateur photographer.
Why, I once knew a girl intimately for two whole years and in all that time she never told me that her curls were false.
Girls, I once knew a woman whose husband made a fortune in two years, and he wouldn’t give her more than the merest pittance for dress and entertaining.
I once knew a man who over-smoked all his life, and when he got a bullet in his lung in the Zulu War he died, simply as the result of his foolishness.
I once knew a man who died with just such a joke on his lips.
I once knew a man who died of apoplexy while swearing," sniffed Cousin Gustus.
I once knew a wife who complained to me, with many tears, that her husband left her, evening after evening, to pass his time in the reading-room of a hotel.
I once knew a girl of that name who was my perfect aversion, and she has spoiled it for me.
Aw once knew one o' that Sooart--one 'at had allus been thinkin soa.
Looking forward, I observed a person advancing to meet me, whom I at once knew to be your father.
When the stranger entered the room, and I gained a view of his face, I at once knewthat I stood face to face with George Almont.
Aw once knew a chap they called old Sammy; he used ta gaa wi a donkey, an th' mooast remarkable things abaat him wor his clogs an' his rags.
I once knew a very great man who went home one night in a shower, and was horrified at discovering that he could not get his umbrella through the front door.
British neutrality, my boy, reminds me of a chap I once knew in the Sixth Ward.
In Frankfort-on-the-Main I once knew a Swiss beggar who collected eighteen pairs of shoes in one week, not counting other things that he asked for also.
I once knew a kid who averaged in Denver nearly three dollars a day for almost a week, by standing in front of shops and "battering" the ladies as they passed in and out.
I once knew a vagabond to call down all sorts of plagues and miseries on a certain house because he could not get enough potatoes there.
In a small town in Wisconsin we once knew a boy who worked willingly and at the hardest kind of labor in a railroad yard for years, voluntarily and without a cent of pay.
We once knew a learned, able, and conscientious judge who, despite his many years' training in the law, was almost certain to decide a case in favor of the litigant who made the strongest appeal to his sympathies.
We once knew a manager who was so distressed by impediments of speech that he could not endure persons with these peculiarities in his organization, although their manner of speech had nothing to do with the quality of their work.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "once knew" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
