Knew [verb]

There was a rumor that Alessandro and his father had both died; but no one knew anything certainly.

Babylas raised his pale face; he knew what was coming; it had come so many times before.

Poor Squinty ran and tried to hide under the straw, for he knew the boy was talking about him.

She did not need a great cook-book; She knew how much and what it took To make things good and sweet and light.

Fatigue he never knew, and on one occasion he was said to have spent thirteen days and nights in the saddle.

Polavieja, as everybody knew, was the chosen executive of the friars, whose only care was to secure their own position.

I knew the world had nothing like her, and yet the impression she has made on me, at the first view, is unexpectedly great.

The young man from far away had not, so far as he knew, either enemies or friends at Monte Carlo.

But such a thing had, nevertheless, come quite glibly out of her mouth, and she knew not why.

Last night I saw Jean Baptiste lying prone upon the floor, and knew that she had beaten him down to it, and he had not resisted.