But if they really hoped to succeed they needed professionals, men who knew how to use a gun against men, who would match the killers on the other side.

Maybe he was only doing the best he knew how, like any of us.

He knew how to shoot down Nazis.

Now he was going to show how much he knew.

He knew exactly how to be colorful!!

He never knew how he got there.

He knew how to channel their exuberant disorderliness so as to transform them from mere plunderers into A-1 guerrilla fighters.

Tom never knew how to condense, to boil down.

After complimenting Morgan and the riflemen and saying he was praising them to Congress, too, the ardent Frenchman added he felt that Congress should make some financial restitution to the widow and family of Morris, but that he knew Morgan realized how long such action usually required, if it was done at all.

he knew he should get to Cap, but he didn't know how.

Afraid at one and the same time that his work might be turned down -- which would be a blow to his pride even though no one knew he was the author -- and that the work would be accepted, and then that his violent feelings in the matter would certainly betray how deeply concerned he was in spite of himself.

Many times I tried to reach you, but I never knew how.

But he knew how important it was for her to keep her figure.

Each brass handle and hinge shone for his reward, and he knew how to get at the dust in the china flowers and how to take down the long glass drops which hung from the chandelier.

And at once Claude saw what the trouble was and he knew just how to correct it.

Regardless of how much of a slob you knew yourself to be, you could be certain they would never find out -- and even if they did it would make no difference.

It is already difficult to recall how little we knew before the Trial of what had been done to the Jews of Europe.

He knew Vince Steiner was one of those men who had to work up a fury once in a while just to prove how dangerous he could be.

Marty knew how the Union soldiers must have felt at Chancellorsville and Antietam and Gettysburg when the ragged gray ranks charged at them, screaming the wild banshee howl they called the Rebel yell.

He did not bother with his radio -- there would be time for that later -- but as he scrambled out on the pavement he saw the filling station and the public telephone booth and knew instantly how he had been summoned.

`` I knew it all along '', confessed Arnold with a grin, `` but I just happened to think how much nicer it would be to drop one way up there ''.

Henrietta thought, It's extraordinary how much she always knew about both of us.

For Linda knew how to help her husband, not just the Stuart-family contacts but also the little dinners for Reuben Lovejoy.

I no longer knew how deep I was, somewhere under 230 feet, getting drunker, happier and more contented by the second.

And he knew in that moment, with a cold sinking of despair, a dying of old hopes, that Mae had spread some kind of word there among the neighbors.

Upon the spread of Islam, libraries in newly Islamic lands knew a brief period of expansion in the Middle East, North Africa, Sicily and Spain.

A network of such interactions could spread his description rapidly among the invaders, who knew how valuable he is.

Although he felt no ill will about the affair afterward, during the war a rumor spread that Hill always fought harder if he knew McClellan was present with the opposing army, because of Ellen's rejection.

For a certain stranger, it seems, coming to Piraeus, and there sitting in a barber's shop, began to talk of what had happened, as if the Athenians already knew all that had passed ; which the barber hearing, before he acquainted anybody else, ran as fast as he could up into the city, addressed himself to the Archons, and presently spread it about in the public Place.

Although the intelligence from his spies incorrectly informed him that she was hideous, he knew that wedding with her would spread his kingdom to a second astral plane.

Yasmin, however, apologizes, explaining that people used to comment that her column was boring, and that, after she spread gossip about people around school, those who knew she was the ghost writer made her feel important.

His name spread around Vegas and before he knew it he was playing poker with Johnny Chan, Puggy Pearson, and David Grey.

My family and friends have always stood by me and knew that these were all just lies that were being spread about me.

Werner knew nothing of this legend and was oblivious as his fame started to spread.

Van Peebles knew that in order to spread his message, the film " simply couldn't be a didactic discourse which would end up playing [...] to an empty theater except for ten or twenty aware brothers who would pat me on the back and say it tells it like it is " and that " to attract the mass we have to produce work that not only instructs but entertains ".

Tony, who had worked in the Kingdom for almost 25 years, had been an active member of Saudi Arabia's underground church and although unconfirmed, most who knew him, believe he was gunned down for his impassioned but indiscreet efforts to spread the Christian faith within Saudi Arabia.

In 18th and 19th centuries, Morocco knew a great number of poets who, from Fez, Meknes or Marrakech spread popular poetry who adopted the melhoun.

Yet Indic civilizations knew of what is now Yunnan in China, as " Gandhara " no later than the second century B. C .. Hindu culture, language and religion spread into that part of the world incident to the cultural achievements of the Sahavahanas ( 230 BC – AD 220.

When he left Matthew Murray High School, teachers who knew him described him as " a slow gentle giant " who " did not spread leaflets of hate-mail ".

By then, the prosecutor had read Orfila's book and knew that in some cases, the arsenic left the stomach but had spread to other parts of the body.

Normally Hague wasted no words, but now he found himself unable to stop their flow although he knew Kodyke was aware of all he said.

Some, she knew, looked upon Thompson almost as a saint, but others read in `` The Hound Of Heaven '' what they took to be the confessions of a great sinner, who, like Oscar Wilde, had -- as one pious writer later put it -- thrown himself `` on the swelling wave of every passion ''.

He knew all about the infection and the fever, and, too, the moment of realization when he saw for himself, threw up his hands and quit, ended the war as a prisoner in Texas.

Jonathan's letter came, as she knew it would, and he had accepted their child's death as another judgment from God against both Kate and himself.

Even Rector himself was prey to this spirit of competition and he knew it, not for a more exalted office in the hierarchy of the church -- his ambitions for the bishopry had died very early in his career -- but for the one clear victory he had talked about to the colonel.

And then Nick knew that all of them knew Elaine, himself and Poet.

He barely knew himself.

Now that he knew himself to be self he was free to grok ever closer to his brothers, merge without let.

He made one himself, and had another done by a professional copyist who knew no Anglo-Saxon.

Aware of the accusations against Kidd, Bellomont was justifiably afraid of being implicated in piracy himself, and knew that presenting Kidd to England in chains was his best chance to save himself.

The phrase " Cogito ergo sum " ( I think, therefore I am ) is also commonly associated with Descartes ' theory, because in his own methodological doubt, doubting everything he previously knew in order to start from a blank slate, the first thing that he could not logically bring himself to doubt was his own existence: " I do not exist " would be a contradiction in terms ; the act of saying that one does not exist assumes that someone must be making the statement in the first place.

Heracles knew that he had to return the hind, as he had promised, to Artemis, so he agreed to hand it over on the condition that Eurystheus himself come out and take it from him.

One of the men produces a double-edged butcher knife, and as the two men pass it back and forth between them, the narrator tells us that " K. knew then precisely, that it would have been his duty to take the knife ... and thrust it into himself.

The treatise is not a compendium of all that the Hellenistic mathematicians knew at the time about geometry ; Euclid himself wrote eight more advanced books on geometry.

: 4: 53 So the father knew that it was at the same hour, in the which Jesus said unto him, Thy son liveth: and himself believed, and his whole house.

As these epithets imply, there has long been a debate — at least from the time of Cicero's On the Laws ( Book 1, paragraph 5 )— concerning the veracity of his tales and, more importantly, the extent to which he knew himself to be creating fabrications.

Neither found any evidence that President Reagan himself knew of the extent of the multiple programs.

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.

She refused to help since she knew that Bobby would have to do it himself.

He knew what that would mean for himself: " For us ," he had written in 1943, " we have burnt our bridges.

He rarely knew anything in-depth about the singer himself and primarily only catalogued verse that could be relevant or of some use in his work.