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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 ''.
He could move very quickly, she knew ( although he seldom found occasion to do so ), but he was more wiry than truly strong.
And even with her limited knowledge of such things, she knew that the car could be repaired there ; ;
Something clicked in this instance, but I treated her circumspectly and I felt that she knew it, for we both kept our distance.
Just as he knew that she had stopped loving him.
Mama knew she was playing her son's favorite pieces and feeling close to him, and did not disturb her.
Mama knew that she was out of mourning when she finally wore bright colors.
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 could not make out, but he knew that again she was scratching her nose.
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.
These would be his hardest years, she knew, and he missed his father desperately.
First thing I knew he was in the kitchenette cooking up the breakfast and I was handing Eileen her coffeecup and she was lying there handsome as a queen among her courtiers.
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.
Charity as she knew it was complex and reciprocal, and almost every roof she saw signified charity.
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.
There is a death in all partings, she knew, and promptly put it out of her mind.
She knew she was feeling afraid and inwardly laughed at herself.
Going downstairs with the tray, Winston wished he could have given in to Miss Ada, but he knew better than to do what she said when she had that little-girl look.
for she knew and we knew that it was cowardice that had made one more radish that night just too impossible a strain.

knew and was
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.
He knew who was riding after him -- the men he had known all his life, the men who had worked for him, sworn their loyalty to him.
Was I sure, he asked, that I knew what I was applying for??
For everyone involved knew that the whole valley was a powder keg, and Mitchell Barton the fuse which could send it into explosive violence.
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.
She already knew this unwholesome, chilling atmosphere that was somehow grotesquely alive.
From the way the wound in his head was itching, Dan knew that it would heal.
He knew now what he was up against.
From the time the chocks were pulled until the plane was out of sight, he knew Donovan would keep his back to the strip.
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.
`` They knew I was a good sharecrop farmer back in Carolina, but out West was a chance to build a real farm of our own.
Maybe he was only doing the best he knew how, like any of us.
What had caught his attention was obscured by the car itself, so that neither the girl nor the truck drivers could see, but Benson knew what it was.
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.
The Nazis knew this, of course, and while their chief quarry was the industrial centers, they let a few drop every time they went over, hoping for a lucky hit.
I came up maybe fifty feet before I knew what was happening ''.
Now he was going to show how much he knew.
We knew that it was, as reassurance, the ironic fruit of a deeply moral nature.
`` I knew I was carrying on with abstraction to its very end -- for me '', he said of the two years' output in Virginia.
`` It was then I knew that they were making war against Man, the individual within!!

knew and even
`` 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 ''!!
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.
Both knew that when trains stopped at Texan crossroads bored soldiers would sometimes enter to ask the passengers if they had any reading material to spare, even a newspaper.
He felt her irritability did not concern him, yet he knew he would not care even if it did.
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.
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.
When it was worn in the breast, or even on the sleeve, we at least knew where it was ''.
Babe Ruth, of course, was everyone's hero, and everyone knew him, even though relatively few ever saw him play ball.
But even before he started across the oiled road to his Plymouth, parked in the lot under the cypress trees across from the station, he knew that he wasn't going home.
The President knew that a confrontation with Mr. Khrushchev sooner or later probably was inevitable and even desirable.
I stopped the tractor and I shouted down to the boy, and I knew he could hear me, for the morning was clear and still, but he did not even hesitate in that brutal, murdering dance.
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.
In harmony with Paul's notices are the statements in Acts that Apollos was a highly educated Alexandrian Jew, who " spoke and taught accurately about Jesus, even though he knew only the baptism of John.
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.
For example: if five ancient historians, none of whom knew each other, all claim that Julius Caesar seized power in Rome in 49 BCE, this is strong evidence in favor of that event occurring even if each individual historian is only partially reliable.
He stated in his 1974 autobiography, " We were so poor and everybody around us was so poor that it was the forties before anyone even knew there had been a depression.
had to drink There were even drinking game referee officials, including a ' registrar of the rules ' who knew all the rules to the game, a ' registrar of the horn ' who tossed a silver flag down on calling out second offenses, and a ' governor ' who decided one's third call of offense.

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