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He knew this to be the only policy that would be supported by the Afghan nation ; and although for some time a rupture with Russia seemed imminent, while the Government of India made ready for that contingency, the Amir's reserved and circumspect tone in the consultations with him helped to turn the balance between peace and war, and substantially conduced towards a pacific solution.
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And here all the time you knew the Sioux would be using our rifles on them!!
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 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.
And even with her limited knowledge of such things, she knew that the car could be repaired there ; ;
So far as he knew, only his father could be there.
But he knew well enough that those guns would still be trained on his back as he walked towards the wagon.
Jack knew of course that the tale to be unfolded would involve a girl and probably be dirty, because girls were Charles' only apparent interest.
I knew that a conversation with the author would not settle such questions, because a man is not the same as his writing: in the last analysis, the questions had to be settled by the work itself.
I knew this knowledge to be corrupting at the time I acquired it ; ;
He knew it would be implied that it was done in this way at his insistence.
He knew exactly how to be colorful!!
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 ''.
My own stern hand has rent the ancient bond, And thereof shall the ending not have end: But not for me, that loved her, to be fond Lightly to please me with a newer friend Then hold it more than bravest-feathered song, That I affirm to thee, with heart of pride, I knew not what did to a friend belong Till I stood up, true friend, by thy true side ; ;
But, who knew, that might be coming one of these days.
Now he knew that the moment illuminated by the vision on the train would have to be approached.
He knew that in this mood he could not be stopped.
On a stage he always knew what to do, and tonight, to judge by the applause, he must be doing it better than usual.
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.
He wanted to run, but he knew that if he did, he would be lost.
These would be his hardest years, she knew, and he missed his father desperately.
he knew the fundamentals, and after studying with Fletcher for a time he approached Rector, announced that he wanted to be baptized and that was that.
It was a Cadillac, black grayed with the dust of the road, its windows closed tight so you knew that the people who climbed out of it would be cool and unwrinkled.
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They were west of the Sabine, but only God knew where.
Maybe he was only doing the best he knew how, like any of us.
He spoke no German but he could sing it and the words of the song were the only ones he knew in a foreign language.
In 1945, probably almost every American not only knew who Sam Spade was, but had some kind of emotional feeling about him.
But they, naturally, kept his secret well, and the public at large knew only of a great excitement in musical and court circles.
They caused my love for Jessica to become warmer and at the same time more hopeless, as if my adolescent self knew that only torment would ever bring me the courage to ask to see her again.
Out of this background of hunting and fishing, it was only natural that Roy first painted subjects he knew best: hunters in the field, fishermen in the stream, ducks and geese on the wing -- almost always against a vast backdrop of weather landscape.
Its editors only knew of one example to point to, a public housing development of 278 homes in New Haven described by John Schulz in the March, 1950 issue.
For three years, since the liquor territorial conference, Torrio had, with his elastic patience, and because he knew that retaliation could cause only violent warfare and disaster to business, tolerated O'Banion's impudent double-crossing.
He not only knew soldiering, but mathematics, history and literature as well.
The New Bedford Standard-Times has reported Knowlton as saying, long after the trial, that if he only knew what Borden said during his conversation with Morse, he would have convicted `` somebody ''.
Promoters always hastened to place their choice tickets in the hands of the wealthy speculators, and only the man who knew the man who knew the fellow who had an in with the guy at the box office ever came up with a good seat for a contest of any importance.
He felt his empty pocket and knew that Roberts had retrieved the only weapon at hand.
I knew the only way I could beat you was to play possum, but it was a good try, kid, and I appreciate it.
being intellectually influenced by Newman and the general 19th-century literature of England, I knew only a Protestant-dominated country.
Mr. Robards -- Jenny was the only person she knew of in the Mt. Pleasant neighborhood who called him that -- was kind but too easygoing.
`` Left mine many a time, only she never knew it.
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.
Marsyas could not do this, as he only knew how to use the flute and could not sing at the same time.
Collins decided to record it in the late 1960s amid an atmosphere of counterculture introspection ; she was part of an encounter group that ended a contentious meeting by singing " Amazing Grace " as it was the only song to which all the members knew the words.
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