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.

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.

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.

But he knew well enough that those guns would still be trained on his back as he walked towards the wagon.

Sherman knew the uses of cavalry as well as Thomas but he imagined a moving base with infantry wings instead of cavalry wings.

He had bought a little piece of property down along the coast of the hard country of Calabria that he knew so well.

But they, naturally, kept his secret well, and the public at large knew only of a great excitement in musical and court circles.

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.

He not only knew soldiering, but mathematics, history and literature as well.

He knew the house fairly well, he had been there on two previous visits during the past three or four months alone.

I knew Red and Handley well.

And when he was alone again in the cabin, Alexander lowered his head into his arms and wept, for he knew full well what must be done, what in the end would be done.

Alexander knew Spencer too well to think him naive or thick-skulled.

Lucy knew her too well to find it impossible.

His voice had sharp edges, as though he knew very well Lucy and he were not friends at the moment.

But then I looked at Shirley and thought that I might as well -- the child needed her sleep, and Heaven knew what kind of a mess it would be, with Wally coming home drunk.

But then, as he well knew, women are not guided by logic or common sense.

I knew the boy well.

Lincoln learned from his chief of staff General Henry Halleck, a student of the European strategist Jomini, of the critical need to control strategic points, such as the Mississippi River ; he also knew well the importance of Vicksburg and understood the necessity of defeating the enemy's army, rather than simply capturing territory.

Written as it was during Queen Ena's lifetime, this book necessarily omits the King's extramarital affairs ; but it remains a useful biography, not least because the author knew Alfonso quite well, interviewed him at considerable length, and relates him to the Spanish culture of his time.

He knew patristic literature, as well as Pliny the Elder, Virgil, Lucretius, Ovid, Horace and other classical writers.

He also knew Orosius's Adversus Paganus, and Gregory of Tours ' Historia Francorum, both Christian histories, as well as the work of Eutropius, a pagan historian.

His son and successor Humāyūn knew Chaghatay well and read his father's memoirs.

: And long-haired Medes, who knew it all too well.

Bach was held in such high regard: he understood the older forms quite well and knew how to present them in new garb, with an enhanced variety of form.

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.

`` 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!!