He knew that anything a brainy little lady like her had to say would be plumb important, as well as pleasin' to the ear, and he didn't want to miss a word of it.

If it were not that I knew who it was I could have mistaken it for my Aunt so well did her clothes fit him.

He knew her mind pretty well, by now, its quick perceptions and sympathies, its painful insistence on truth and directness, its capacity for love almost too deep for a man to reciprocate, even in part.

Sherman knew the uses of cavalry as well as Thomas but he imagined a moving base with infantry wings instead of cavalry wings.

He had bought a little piece of property down along the coast of the hard country of Calabria that he knew so well.

But they, naturally, kept his secret well, and the public at large knew only of a great excitement in musical and court circles.

For a moment she thought of answering with the truth but she knew there were men who shied away from virginity, who demanded some degree of education in body as well as mind.

He not only knew soldiering, but mathematics, history and literature as well.

He knew the house fairly well, he had been there on two previous visits during the past three or four months alone.

I knew Red and Handley well.

And when he was alone again in the cabin, Alexander lowered his head into his arms and wept, for he knew full well what must be done, what in the end would be done.

Alexander knew Spencer too well to think him naive or thick-skulled.

Lucy knew her too well to find it impossible.

His voice had sharp edges, as though he knew very well Lucy and he were not friends at the moment.

But then I looked at Shirley and thought that I might as well -- the child needed her sleep, and Heaven knew what kind of a mess it would be, with Wally coming home drunk.

But then, as he well knew, women are not guided by logic or common sense.

I knew the boy well.

Lincoln learned from his chief of staff General Henry Halleck, a student of the European strategist Jomini, of the critical need to control strategic points, such as the Mississippi River ; he also knew well the importance of Vicksburg and understood the necessity of defeating the enemy's army, rather than simply capturing territory.

Written as it was during Queen Ena's lifetime, this book necessarily omits the King's extramarital affairs ; but it remains a useful biography, not least because the author knew Alfonso quite well, interviewed him at considerable length, and relates him to the Spanish culture of his time.

He knew patristic literature, as well as Pliny the Elder, Virgil, Lucretius, Ovid, Horace and other classical writers.

He also knew Orosius's Adversus Paganus, and Gregory of Tours ' Historia Francorum, both Christian histories, as well as the work of Eutropius, a pagan historian.

His son and successor Humāyūn knew Chaghatay well and read his father's memoirs.

: And long-haired Medes, who knew it all too well.

Bach was held in such high regard: he understood the older forms quite well and knew how to present them in new garb, with an enhanced variety of form.

and then I was adding my own voice to the crescendo of sound, hurling more vile language than I ever thought I knew, sobbing and shouting, and aware that if I had passed water before, it was not enough, for my pants were soaking wet.

What had once been a widespread family -- at one time, she knew, there were enough Packards to populate an entire county -- had now narrowed down to the two boys, Abel and Mark.

Lucy glancing at the miniature case, knew there would not be enough in it for the shortest of stays ; ;

The preface mentions that Ceolwulf received an earlier draft of the book ; presumably Ceolwulf knew enough Latin to understand it, and he may even have been able to read it.

Although he considered himself close to, but not a member of, al-Qa ' ida, he knew enough about the senior members, organization and operations to claim to be a member.

In Moon's biography, Full Moon, longtime friend and personal assistant Dougal Butler, observed: " He ( Moon ) would do anything if he knew that there were enough people around who didn't want him to do it.

By the middle of the 19th century, the Leyden jar had become common enough for writers to assume their readers knew of and understood its basic operation.

He was antisocial because he knew society was crap ; he was a hero to youth because he was strong enough not to take the crap ... Brando represented a contemporary version of the free American ... Brando is still the most exciting American actor on the screen.

The compilers of the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy find pseudo-Dionysius to be most probably " a pupil of Proclus, perhaps of Syrian origin, who knew enough of Platonism and the Christian tradition to transform them both.

Peuerbach's Greek was not good enough to do a translation but he knew the Almagest intimately so instead he started work on a modernised, improved abridgement of the work.

The monk had to stand because the tower is not large enough for him to sit-sitting could lull him to sleep-and they knew what could happen when no-one was watching.

Bar management usually knew about raids beforehand due to police tip-offs, and raids occurred early enough in the evening that business could commence after the police had finished.

According to Hardman, " We knew that we could not raise enough money to shoot a film on a par with the classic horror films with which we had all grown up.

Part of the mystique of The Replacements was the fact that the audience never knew until the start of a concert if the band would be sober enough to play.

He also knew that the Racers could not hope to be included among those teams, and hoped to keep the Racers alive long enough to collect compensation from the surviving teams when the WHA dissolved, as well as any funds earned from selling the young star.

This piece of apparently routine work proved very fruitful — it led to the discovery that all the stars of very faint absolute magnitude were of spectral class M. In conversation on this subject ( as I recall it ), I asked Pickering about certain other faint stars, not on my list, mentioning in particular 40 Eridani B. Characteristically, he sent a note to the Observatory office and before long the answer came ( I think from Mrs Fleming ) that the spectrum of this star was A. I knew enough about it, even in these paleozoic days, to realize at once that there was an extreme inconsistency between what we would then have called " possible " values of the surface brightness and density.

From the Historia it is clear that he also knew French and possibly Italian, but there is not enough evidence to determine whether he learned Greek, Persian, and Arabic, as is sometimes claimed.

Some Scottish men, who well knew this manner of attack, bade Wallace sound, saying there were now enough.

Since the protocols were proprietary, very few people beyond the developers and hackers knew enough to determine how secure a SCADA installation was.

Contradicting Nestlé's claim that Wakefield put chunks of chocolate into cookie dough hoping they would melt, the daughter stated that the owner, already an accomplished chef and author of a cookbook, knew enough about the properties of chocolate to realize it would not melt and mix into the batter while baking.

ESPN has been criticized for not reporting a taped recording of Bernie Fine's wife apparently acknowledging that she knew her husband may have molested children, particularly because ESPN ran a number of articles criticizing Joe Paterno for not taking enough affirmative action to report Jerry Sandusky's child abuse.

With a correct idea of their importance, Simplicius made the most diligent use of the commentaries of Alexander of Aphrodisias and Porphyry ; and although he often enough combats the views of the former, he knew how to value, as it deserved, his ( in the main ) sound critical sense.

: We were happy enough working on the land, but we knew more and more certainly that the ways of the old settlements were not for us.

No one knew if the C ++ compiler could generate fast enough code.