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1. O, that a man might knowShak. There is a certainty in the proposition, and we know it.Dryden. Know how sublime a thing it isLongfellow. He hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin.2 Cor. v. 21. Not to know me argues yourselves unknown.Milton. Ye shall know them by their fruits.Matt. vil. 16. And their eyes were opened, and they knew him.Luke xxiv. 31. To knowShak. At nearer view he thought he knew the dead.Flatman. And Adam knew Eve his wife.Gen. iv. 1. Know is often followed by an objective and an infinitive (with or without to) or a participle, a dependent sentence, etc. And I knew that thou hearest me always.John xi. 42. The monk he instantly knew to be the prior.Sir W. Scott. In other hands I have known money do good.Dickens. Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider.Is. i. 3. If any man will do his will, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God, or whether I speak of myself.John vii. 17. The peasant folklore of Europe still knows of willows that bleed and weep and speak when hewn.Tylor. |
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