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Stood in front of a planned, posed photographer, whom we both grew up knowing,
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‘Well,’ says she, settling herself in a chair, spreading out her dress, and looking very knowing,
Robbery Under Arms 2004
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It need hardly be mentioned that, close friends as they had become in a short time, Johnny Liston rather resented David's patronage and implied superiority, and he hated his calling him "Jonathan," or addressing him as "my son," just as if he were as old as his father, instead of being just of an age, as he would indignantly remonstrate, which knowing,
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I say nothing of the grounds of their separation; but, knowing the two men, and knowing,
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 39, January, 1861 Various
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To wish him back, though I should say, not knowing,
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Thyself thou gav'st, thy own worth then not knowing,
Sonnets ix 1919
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My horror of having committed a thousand offences I had forgotten, and which nothing could ever expiate - my recollection of that indelible look which Agnes had given me - the torturing impossibility of communicating with her, not knowing,
David Copperfield Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 1917
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Thyself thou gavst, thy own worth then not knowing,
Sonnet 87 1914
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Thyself thou gavst, thy own worth then not knowing,
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Where mortals are wand'ring, their goal never knowing,
The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 03 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes Kuno Francke 1892
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