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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.
He could move very quickly, she knew ( although he seldom found occasion to do so ), but he was more wiry than truly strong.
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.
He knew she was not sulking, not even angry at him.
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 weak
Blücher knew that Marmont's Corps was weak and his plan was to destroy it and thus fall upon the rear of Napoleon's main force.
Daun knew that the Prussian forces were too weak to both besiege Prague and keep him away from Prague for a longer time ( or to fight the Austrian army reinforced by the Prague garrison ), so his Austrian forces took defensive positions on hills near Kolín.
Thus Nadir Shah became furious with the Muhammad Shah ; he knew that the Mughals had become weak and decided to capture the rich treasures of the Mughal Empire in Delhi and Agra.
As a fit young man with sharp-shooting abilities he could not be rejected, however it was peacetime and the surgeon who he knew well helped him avoid recruitment under the pretext of a weak chest.
Brougham was in the opposition Whig party, and knew that public sympathy rested with Caroline, rather than her husband or the government, which was weak and unpopular.
Robert Alan Aurthur, who was present during the filming and interviewing of Truman later said, "... an image I can easily evoke ... in that brief time when we knew and worked with Harry Truman, is any moment when Merle Miller walked into a room or office where Harry Truman was waiting ... if Truman did not ignore the rest of us completely ... for Merle, always a smile, always an inside greeting that had to do with a couple of fellas from Missouri and Iowa ... both were from the Midwest ; both had strong mothers, weak eyes ... a boyhood and lifelong devotion to books and music, total dedication to the truth, and a sense of history which encompasses an uncanny ability to relate past events, great and small, not with 20-20 hindsight or fashionable revisionism, but purely in their own terms as they happened.
He also knew from the unsuccessful first assaults on June 9 how weak the Petersburg defenses actually were.
He has also commented that although he knew most of everything in life, he was a bit weak in pop-cultural matters.

knew and very
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.
The Serge Prokofieff whom we knew in the United States of America was gay, witty, mercurial, full of pranks and bonheur -- and very capable as a professional musician.
Despite the fact that he was regarded as an outstanding engineer, he seemed to be a very poor administrator, although no one quite knew what was wrong with him.
Only a few other people -- very important people -- knew of the nitrogen-mustard eggs nestled below decks.
He might be very tight, but he knew where he was.
His voice had sharp edges, as though he knew very well Lucy and he were not friends at the moment.
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.
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.
Common sense indicated they must be very small, but nobody knew how small.
' He spent a good deal of time with Akhmatova -- who in those years was given a very wide berth by most of the people who knew her.
The style is very condensed, with many mistakes, possibly as a quick reminder to people who had danced the dances before and knew exactly what the terms meant.
His treatment of heresy, for example, is limited, and he knew very little about the Western church.
There was very little information available about the original project ( even ex-TSR employees having forgotten what they knew about the module over the years ), so the module was published based entirely on the working title and information drawn from Dragon magazine articles.
) Among those who critiqued him from the left were Marxist-humanist Raya Dunayevskaya, fellow German emigre Paul Mattick, both of whom subjected One-Dimensional Man to a Marxist critique, and Noam Chomsky, who knew and liked Marcuse " but thought very little of his work.
The Independent later stated that " Lindsay came across as all style and no substance, a ' limousine liberal ' who knew nothing of the concerns of the same ' Silent Majority ' that was carrying Richard Nixon to the White House at the very same time.
Surely the Savior knew her very well.
Additionally, many users feared that IBM, who had proven eminently capable of developing a superior PC operating system, knew very little about consumer marketing in the high-tech marketplace or establishing even a superior product as a standard in the cut-throat, get-there-first-at-any-cost arena dominated by Microsoft.
" She later said, " I only knew that, as I was being arrested, that it was the very last time that I would ever ride in humiliation of this kind ..."
Again, it is also clear that the Elizabethan adventurer Edward Fenton at the very least knew the approximate location of the island in 1582.
From the very beginning, the Military Committee knew it had to capture al-Kiswah and Qatana, two military camps, seize control of the 70th Armoured Brigade at al-Kiswah, the Military Academy in the city of Homs and the Damascus radio station.
To achieve a tone and quality that was true to the story as well as reflected the period in which it is set, Spielberg once again collaborated with cinematographer Janusz Kamiński, saying, " Early on, we both knew that we did not want this to look like a Technicolor extravaganza about World War II, but more like color newsreel footage from the 1940s, which is very desaturated and low-tech.

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