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knew and house
He knew the house fairly well, he had been there on two previous visits during the past three or four months alone.
And in all likelihood, by now, there was more than one person in the house who knew the terms of her marriage contract.
I talked first, telling him everything I knew about Seaton and his house and domestic arrangements.
The prophet, though blind with old age, knew the wife of Jeroboam as soon as she approached, and under a divine impulse he announced to her that inasmuch as in Abijah alone of all the house of Jeroboam there was found " some good thing toward the Lord ," he only would come to his grave in peace.
: 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.
The caretaker of his father's second house, Katagiri Ryuji, also knew jujutsu, but would not teach it as he believed it was no longer of practical use.
The final punch-line was, " and I think the little house knew something about it!
Mendes came across American Beauty in a pile of eight scripts at Swofford's house, and knew immediately that it was the one he wanted to make ; early in his career, he had been inspired by how the film Paris, Texas ( 1984 ) presented contemporary America as a mythic landscape and he saw the same theme in American Beauty, as well as parallels with his own childhood.
He had been to 10050 Cielo Drive, and although he knew that Melcher had moved, the house represented his rejection by the show business establishment.
Princess Alexandra Caroline Marie Charlotte Louise Julia or " Alix " ( as her immediate family knew her ) was born at the Yellow Palace, an 18th-century town house at 18 Amaliegade, right next to the Amalienborg Palace complex in Copenhagen.
That was when I knew that, if I stayed with the band, I'd probably end up a raging alcoholic and be found overdosed and dying in a big house in Oxford with Irish wolfhounds at the bottom of my bed.
According to Ted Morgan, " He knew he couldn't stay in the Lyons area, so he went to Montpellier, in the south of France, and bought a boarding house.
But even though Gambino had every corner in his house recorded, he knew how to conduct business in silence.
By the end of 1945, he knew he was the sole survivor of the family, and of those who had hidden in the house on the Prinsengracht.
White lived the same life as his clients, not quite so lavishly perhaps, and he knew how the house had to perform: like a first-rate hotel, theater foyer, or a theater set with appropriate historical references.
Every week, he left her food near the statue, which was placed outside the house, but nobody knew he was doing it.
Tucker explained, " Even though I loved the song and it was a sensational hit every time I sang it, I was always careful to use it only when I knew the majority of the house would understand Yiddish.
Toyokuni was apprenticed to the first head of the Utagawa house, Utagawa Toyoharu, whom his father knew well and who lived nearby, at about the age of 14.
Porter told the Associated Press that during the winter of 1979-1980, he became paranoid, convinced that baseball commissioner Bowie Kuhn, known to be tough on drug use, knew about his drug abuse, was trying to sneak into his house, and planned to ban him from baseball for life.
He then made his way to the house where he knew the children awaited.
As late as 2010, Reyat admitted only to buying and assembling some parts, but denied he ever made a bomb, knew what the bomb was to be used for, who was behind any plot, or that he ever asked or knew the name of the man who he said stayed in his house for a week completing construction of the explosive device after his device failed.
The nature of the shared house market meant that not even the landlord knew exactly who was living there ; tenants were replaced, and may have shared a " single " room with their partner.
Going to Scheurer-Kestner's house, Leblois told all he knew, and showed him Gonse's letters.

knew and like
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.
`` 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 ''!!
Maybe he was only doing the best he knew how, like any of us.
I remember one day when Mr. Hearst ( and I never knew why he liked me, either ) sent the Hetman a telegram: `` Please find some more reporters like that young man from Denver ''.
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 ''.
She held Jonathan's letter, his words burning like a brand, and knew suddenly that the bonds between them were severed.
When in one letter Jessica informed me that her father did not like the idea of her going out alone on New Year's Eve, I knew for a moment an immense relief ; ;
At least she never knew what the bottom was like ''.
And the bed that sagged in a certain place where all the weight had been put too many times before and the walls fine and thin for overhearing talk in the next room when Gratt went out for ice, the sound coming through the walls like something on the other side of the curtain, so you knew they heard you when they were quiet and while you lay wondering what they had heard you listened.
And Gratt Shafer would be in Memphis today for the wedding rehearsal and then tomorrow he would marry just like everybody knew he would, just like everybody knew all along.
Like Mattie and the mayor up there gripping the microphone and Toonker Burkette back in his office yanking out teeth, like they all knew he would.
She asked him and, laughing, she added, `` I was nervous about buying a book with a title like that, but I knew you'd like it ''.
I had killed snakes before, when I was younger, but there had been no animal like this one, and I knew it was unthinkable that an animal such as that should die.
I picked him up, and the length of him arched very carefully and gracefully and only a little wildly, and I could feel the coolness of that radiant, fire-colored body, like splendid ice, and I knew that he had eaten only recently because there were two whole and solid little lumps in the forepart of him, like fieldmice swallowed whole might make.
They lay months away from the nearest Earth star by jump drive, and no one knew what they were good for, although it was felt that they would probably be good for something if it could only be discovered -- much like the continent of Antarctica in ancient history.
Ancient cultures around the Mediterranean knew that certain objects, such as rods of amber, could be rubbed with cat's fur to attract light objects like feathers.
I had never witnessed anything of the kind before, although like every person, I knew earthquakes by description.

knew and blind
And a solemn diploma from Christ Church, Canterbury dated 873 is so poorly constructed and written that historian Nicholas Brooks posited a scribe who was either so blind he could not read what he wrote or who knew little or no Latin.
The NRC researchers knew that for their results to be credible within the scientific community and to have the most meaningful results, they had to eliminate bias, and blind testing was the only way to do so.
In the early 1970s, Keel went on a blind date with airline stewardess Judy Magamoll, who was 25 years his junior and knew nothing about his stardom.
Neither the patients nor the independent evaluators knew which patients had received which surgery ( thus the " double blind " notation ).
An interesting anecdote about Fort Oswego in the 1750s states-" I knew a Michael Keane, a blind harper, who was born in the County Mayo in Connaught.
However, suppose she knew ( with 100 % certainty ) the big blind held < font color = red > 8 ♦ 7 ♦</ font >.
She has made a " mistake ", in the sense that she has played differently from the way she would have played if she knew the big blind held < font color = red > 8 ♦ 7 ♦</ font >, even though this " mistake " is almost certainly the best decision given the incomplete information available to her.
Captain Yamaguchi Ichitarō, who was the commander on duty at 1st Infantry Regiment, knew of unfolding events, but turned a blind eye to their action, even when the troops involved in the incident threatened and confined NCO's guarding the powder magazine, and arms and ammunition.
The British then tried to make friends with the Ashanti, and Colonel Torrane, who was in charge at Cape Coast, most treacherously handed an old and blind Assin king called Kwadwo Otibu to the Asantehene, although he knew the old man would be killed ; which he was.
Cary said that, while Sara knew historical change " only in people and herself " and Jimson saw it " as the battle of aesthetic ideas with each other and with a public always blind and self-assured ", Wilcher is a man of " political and religious intuition.
Duryodhana, the eldest of the one-hundred sons of the blind king Dhritarashtra, knew that the Pandavas, the five sons of King Pandu, younger brother of King Dhritarashtra, were better than he and his brothers at warfare and saw Karna as a chance to get on even terms with them.
It turns out Mrs. Reed, in her own selfishness, knew she was going blind and abandoned him to get help for herself.
When it was Bhima's turn, Krishna knew that the king was blind and possessed the strength of a hundred thousand elephants from the boon granted by Vyasa.
Upon follow-up between the ages of 5 to 12, 8 of them identified as boys, and all of the subjects had at least moderately male-typical attitudes and interests, however these tests were not double blind as the parents ( and often the subjects ) knew the biological sex of children they were raising.
She also dated John Quin ( Edward Winter ) and considered breaking up with him because he was blind and she felt self-conscious because she knew he wasn't attracted to her physical beauty.
Araman reveals that the government chronoscopy agency, far from suppressing scientific research out of blind authoritarianism, was trying to protect the people in the only way they knew how.
" In all the years I knew John we never exchanged a wrong word, I was always amazed at his unruffled calm, he made mistakes of course but often because he was too generous, money meant little to him he was a soft touch, especially when it came to former players whose requests he rarely refused, he was a man of real worth blind to the faults of his friends, I can honestly say I have never met a kinder or more easy-going man ".

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