But if they really hoped to succeed they needed professionals, men who knew how to use a gun against men, who would match the killers on the other side.

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 ''.

`` 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 ''!!

those who wrote them knew people and what made people tick.

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.

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 ''.

it was the clerks who caused the mischief and who made him say that the ruling passion of their race was covetousness and that in dealing with them he never knew whether he had to do with a Frenchman or with a devil.

In 1945, probably almost every American not only knew who Sam Spade was, but had some kind of emotional feeling about him.

But, who knew, that might be coming one of these days.

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.

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.

Some years ago this Class was judged by celebrities who knew nothing of what was required of a Junior's ability to show a dog.

Perhaps he had better have someone help him put up the pegboard and build the workbench -- someone who knew what he was about.

Music, of course, is not so explicit an art, but anybody who knew Charlie Parker knows that he felt much the same way about his own gift.

The suggestion that Giffen hire out the slaves was not realistic, since no planter would take the risk of having Negroes who knew they were to be free living with his own slaves.

At the inquest she was asked specifically whether she knew anybody her father had bad feelings toward, or who had bad feelings toward her father.

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 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.

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!!

Now, riding this hospital bus, feeling isolated and utterly alone, I knew that she was genuine and unique, quite unlike any girl I had known before.

Yet he knew the others were sleeping more soundly, now that they had renewed their contact with the matter that had birthed them to send them riding high vacuum.

In the same RTE interview, Johnny stated that he knew riding was for him as soon as he stepped into the world of horses.

At the time, said the writer and team manager Chas Messenger, " there were thousands riding in time trials and, apart from a once-in-a-while article in the cycling press, they knew little or nothing about road racing.