He was silent a moment, thinking he could use a man this time of year, and if the girl could cook, it would give him more time in the meadows, but he knew nothing about the couple.

She had driven up with her husband in a convertible with Eastern license plates, although the two drivers knew nothing at the moment about that.

yet he knew that he had nothing to grumble about, for Argiento made few demands on him.

Some years ago this Class was judged by celebrities who knew nothing of what was required of a Junior's ability to show a dog.

Instead he brought with him the names of some people he had never met and of whom the medium knew nothing.

Gun knew that nothing but aces back to back would give the lieutenant an ulcer and a smile at the same time.

The skiff was headed for the very center of the nebula -- toward that place which, Jack knew now, could hold nothing less important than the very core of the Angel's life and religion.

With one corner of his mind he knew that they were saying nothing, just expressing the euphoria of a drug so powerful that the known universe had forbidden it.

Howard Aiken, who built the quickly-obsoleted electromechanical calculator, the Harvard Mark I, between 1937 and 1945, praised Babbage's work likely as a way of enhancing his own stature, but knew nothing of the Analytical Engine's architecture during the construction of the Mark I, and considered his visit to the constructed portion of the Analytical Engine " the greatest disappointment of my life ".

Anaxarchus is said to have studied under Diogenes of Smyrna, who in turn studied under Metrodorus of Chios, who used to declare that he knew nothing, not even the fact that he knew nothing.

Although he had for many years " harbored an ambition to create work for a public square ", he " had never set foot in New York, and knew nothing about life in a rapidly evolving metropolis.

When Jackson returned briefly to England in 1889 to marry, Housman was not invited to the wedding and knew nothing about it until the couple had left the country.

They knew almost nothing about science.

He knew nothing of the reduced fees although he " soon recognised that he was from a poorer home ".

Fawkes's protestations that Gerard knew nothing of the plot were omitted from Coke's speech.

Medicine at the time of Hippocrates knew almost nothing of human anatomy and physiology because of the Greek taboo forbidding the dissection of humans.

" Diogenes relates that as a boy Heraclitus had said he " knew nothing " but later claimed to " know everything.

In the wake of the 2011 tsunami related nuclear disasters, it was discovered that as far back as the 2004 earthquake, authorities knew about the particular risks associated with the Fukushima Daiichi plant but did nothing.

A Justice Department spokeswoman said that Ashcroft knew nothing of the decision to spend $ 8, 000 for the curtains ; a spokesman said the decision for permanent curtains was intended to save on the $ 2, 000 per use rental costs of temporary curtains used for formal events.

In Carla's Song, the bus driver, played by Robert Carlyle, knew nothing of Carla's attempted suicide until he discovered her in the bath.

Until age 12 he knew nothing of professional artists, though art had surrounded him in childhood.

She had offered to walk, but Pamela knew she would not feel comfortable about her child until she had personally confided her to the care of the little pink woman who chose to be called `` Auntie ''.

`` Everyone knew it, but he sort of acted like he didn't care who knew it -- even after them notes came, even after he'd heard about Lewis, even after he'd been shot at a couple o' times hisself ''!!

All the drivers knew about the plates and they also knew about the big floppy straw hat with shredded edges, the kind natives in travel ads wear when they are out joyfully chopping cane.

And he knew that the men talked about him behind his back, saying that he was one up on everybody else -- including the pilot of the plane with the swastika on it -- because he was chemically incapable of fear.

In 1945, probably almost every American not only knew who Sam Spade was, but had some kind of emotional feeling about him.

He knew all about it and had put it down in journal form in The War In A Black Shirt, a wonderful book not, for some strange reason, published in the U.S..

He knew all about the appeal of a black shirt and jackboots to a poor, southern, peasant boy.

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.

Berto knew all about Fascism.

Trujillo knew a great deal about assassination.

The I. A. P. A. found itself driven from journalism into politics as it did its best to bring about the downfall of the Castro Government and the return of the Cuban press to the freedom it knew before Batista's dictatorship began in 1952.

Joel knew what he was about, however.

You never knew about it, but by God, we taught them respect for Captain Androfski ''.

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.

He had made such a fuss about buying that second car that he knew he was vulnerable.

Perhaps he had better have someone help him put up the pegboard and build the workbench -- someone who knew what he was about.

Music, of course, is not so explicit an art, but anybody who knew Charlie Parker knows that he felt much the same way about his own gift.

Only paved alleyways tunneled through the walls of those fortresses into the mysterious core of intimacy behind the houses where backyards owned no fences, where one man's property blended with the next to form courtyards in which no one knew privacy.

Moore recalled that " we wanted to aim high, do something different and big ... We knew we had to have a strong Picard story arc, so what are the profound things in a man's life he has to face?

" There is one abode called Hliðskjálf, and when Allfather sat in the high seat there, he looked out over the whole world and saw every man's acts, and knew all things which he saw.

He tells Song that he knew of the younger man's affair with Jinbao and of the fact that Song had been working with Fat Yu to supplant him as king of the Shanghai underworld.