Knew

She knew what would win because she *knew* they would assume it was *true*. ❋ Ann Althouse (2007)

Of course his reconstructions might be merely a projection of Propp's thesis onto the material, in which case he was proving nothing; but he knew -- he _knew_ -- that his reconstructions were not nonsensical, and they did tend to coalesce toward the pure structure Propp had devised. ❋ Card, Orson Scott (1999)

No one who knew Sara could have looked into her eyes at that moment and doubted that she was speaking not only what she believed to be, but what she _knew_ to be, the ugly truth. ❋ Margaret Pedler (N/A)

We knew our parents would not have us read her, _if they knew_. ❋ Various (N/A)

Guthlac knew it was true, and _knew that he had made a great promise_. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

Joe, I never knew I _knew_ all the words for the cussings I gave those heathen before our fellas found me! ❋ Murray Leinster (1935)

"I knew it," mumbled the visitor despairingly into his beard, "I _knew_ this would happen." ❋ 1886-1967 Bartimeus (1926)

Once seated in the “cotton-tail, ” he began going down into his own country, where he knew every farm he passed, —knew the land even when he did not know the owner, what sort of crops it yielded, and about how much it was worth. ❋ Unknown (1922)

"If I knew -- if I _knew_ --" he said, and his burning eyes searched the bloodless face beneath him. ❋ Unknown (1899)

"Have you once since you knew -- _knew_ -- felt that you must turn to me for comfort and help in one of your dire hours?" ❋ Maria Thompson Daviess (1898)

"Suppose you knew where there was a gold mine -- _knew it_ -- and by going away for a few years you could get a real fortune -- wouldn't you do it?" ❋ Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1897)

I knew -- I say I _knew_ -- that I was not going to die. ❋ Jack London (1896)

Coquenil felt, he knew that something was going to happen, he _knew_ it by the agonized tension of the room, by the atmosphere of _pain_ about them. ❋ Cleveland Moffett (1894)

And the torrent of words which she poured forth made his blood cold, and yet as they fell upon his ear he knew -- yes, now he _knew_ -- revealed no new story to him, even though it had been until that hour untold. ❋ Frances Hodgson Burnett (1886)

But I-- I knew that his reserve was only an effect of his shyness; I _knew_ that he wanted bread: and that knowledge constituted my moral responsibility. ❋ Henry Harland (1883)

I knew what she was suffering; I _knew_ it, I tell you! ❋ George Gissing (1880)

She, too, in the depths of her own heart knew -- _knew_ -- that it was the same Robinson. ❋ Bram Stoker (1879)

I tried to disguise it from myself, but down in the secret deeps of my heart I knew -- and I _knew_ that I knew. ❋ Mark Twain (1872)

He had not a particle of that modesty which in every good boy is as natural as it is graceful; he could tell a lie without the slightest hesitation or the faintest blush; nay, while he was telling it, though _he_ knew that you _knew_ it to be a lie, he would not abash for an instant the cold glance of his wicked dark eyes. ❋ Unknown (1867)

But here lay the gravamen of Walter's fault; he knew -- though he had not said so -- in his inmost heart he _knew_ that the packet did not, and could not, consist merely of old exercises, like the outer sheets, which were put to keep it clean. ❋ Unknown (1867)