“I would have gone with you, if I'd known. Things would be different now if I had.” Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Human traffickers prey on children traveling alone, and many of them are known to have vanished. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

Treeless and rocky, perpetually clobbered by gales howling off the North Atlantic, it takes its name from its first settlers, now long gone, the Irish monks known as papar. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Texan blinked with surprise, for no man had ever been known to join a witch council. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

They suggested that in addition to the photon, there were three other spin-1 particles, known collectively as massive vector bosons, that carried the weak force. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

They come in trying all the time, even ones I've known since they were little. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Since then, she had been part of the Purple team, where she was known as Gene. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

I guess I had known all this last year, and the year before, even earlier, but I'd just accepted it before. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Jesper had always known there was a good chance they wouldn’t make this journey home at all, that they’d end up in cells in the Ice Court or skewered on pikes. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Even had I not known the queen's countenance from the likeness of her that hung in every inn and shop, I could not have mistaken her. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

Something about the bra and the opened white shirt makes it look inappropriate, but Charlise is known for walking around the hood in just a sports bra, basketball shorts, and her Adidas sandals. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

I knew the club name, but I hadn’t known it was his club. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

And if they’d just sent him on to Jackson while he was under the ether, he’d never have known the difference. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The supernatural world isn’t much nicer than the known world.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Pathetic as it was, she had been the closest thing to a mother that he had known since he was three. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Before he died in 1883, he confessed to Samuel Cox Jr. that he had known all along that the injured stranger at his door was John Wilkes Booth. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

And we went before the fire hoses; we had known water. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The Dactyl Hill Squad had become the closest thing she’d ever known to a family besides her actual siblings. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Since they had left Novgorod the previous week, Coram had known they were being followed. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

But he is known to have a rap sheet that includes convictions for assault, including one with a deadly weapon. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Several times during the war Washington arranged for fake documents to fall into the hands of known British spies. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

The complicated chain of events, known as the Watergate scandal, included hush money and destroyed evidence. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Joe grew into the meanest, angriest child any Lacks had ever known, and the family started saying something must have happened to his brain while he was growing inside Henrietta alongside that cancer. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

She calls the message her “last words,” so she must have known she was about to die. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Anyway, it was status just to be known as a client of West Indian Archie’s, because he handled only sizable bettors. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Also, she wanted to do something known in the crime industry as “casing the joint.” The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

She rocked and crooned while he wept for all the pain he had known in his short life, and for all the pain yet to come. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Of course, she hadn’t known he was still alive and trapped here—she’d immediately assumed the worst—but that didn’t change the truth. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

It was rumored that she had had no childhood diseases, was never known to have chicken pox, croup or even a runny nose. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Laney was not known for being a reliable interpreter of conversations. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

The University of Illinois was one of the foremost places in the world to look at the interactions between humans and technology, an area of study known as “human factors.” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

“As well as to being known as the Gunners. We also object to the fact that people who do not currently attend the school seem to dominate the conversation regarding the mascot.” Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

Mr. Chris, who’d been taking the class and who must have known all along, shuffled off guiltily before we could ask him anything. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the newcomers walked the length of the hall, Bran saw that one was indeed a girl, though he would never have known it by her dress. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

For a decade he and his Greek soldiers have been battling their way across the known world, defeating even the mighty Persians, rulers of Asia. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

“It’s very fast and handles beautifully at high speeds. Fliers feel that they have always known how to fly the plane after they’ve been in it only a few moments.” Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Tiny muscles in my flank, muscles I hadn’t known I possessed, suddenly made themselves available. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues, and this is mine: I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

They told of wild “savages” with completely different beliefs and customs; plants with magical powers; and fantastical beasts, bigger and fiercer than any known in Europe. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I looked into the design of their faces, hardly a one that was unlike someone I'd known down South. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was the first time in Armistead’s life he had ever really known a man would die. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The plant is, on first inspection, a common member of the lowly pasture Vicia villosa, also known as hairy vetch. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

I realized these women had known each other longer, but I couldn’t help but wonder if their behavior was intentional. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

“In some sort of crude sense which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish,” he declared, “the physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

He would have known of this extraordinary visit in advance. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Although it remains surprisingly little known outside specialist circles, this master narrative illuminates the origins of every nation in the Americas today. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Because he had last known her when she knew little of the things she blogged about, he felt a sense of loss, as though she had become a person he would no longer recognize. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Matthew was a stout, honest fellow known for his skill with the glaive. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

“That isn’t news, Colonel Read. I’ve known that for three weeks.” My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Someone who had known the governor of a prison. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

That is the most shocking greeting of all, because Birmingham is also known as the Johannesburg of America, the national bastion of apartheid. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

He might have been at the front door again and would not have known it. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Then suddenly, for some reason best known to themselves, they all burst into shrieks of laughter. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

"But even a traitor may mend. I have known one that did." The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

Everything fits together, and I see what I should have known from the beginning. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

Beaten with whips if they fell, beaten if they failed to keep the pace, they headed slowly away from everything they had once known. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had known John personally and had admired him, hav ing worked for him as a security guard at the Bank of Kansas City when John was president of the bank. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hadn’t ever known exactly what the Bible said about the way that I felt about Irene, the way that I knew I could let myself feel about other girls. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

During what became known as “Lord Dunmore’s War,” the Shawnees battled enemy forces that wanted to wipe them from the face of the earth. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

One of these fellows was known as Bogart, after the American tough-guy movie actor. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Is this how I’m going to be known forever? Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Alexandra was known as “Dark City” for its complete absence of electricity. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If I’d known how valuable food packets were, I probably wouldn’t have eaten so many, starving or not. I don’t even like it anymore. The worst was SpagBol for breakfast.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

In the early 1800s, European traders, missionaries, and whalers began to visit New Zealand, which had been occupied 600 years previously by Polynesian farmers and fishermen known as Maoris. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Jean Louise had never known her mother, and she never knew what a mother was, but she rarely felt the need of one. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Attendant upon these beliefs was his conviction that the family had known very well the persons who destroyed them. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Though they couldn’t see him, Mr. Flux made his presence on O’Doyle’s porch known. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Now it does come, almost exactly as he has known that it will: —I have seen Charles Bon, Henry. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z

What makes this phenomenon less remarkable is the relatively little- known fact that dehydrated wood has an extremely low heat content and very poor heat conductivity. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Though few had seen it, the incident was well known to most officers at Sing Sing. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mother has been the only family I’ve known my whole life, and here, in my aunt’s arms, my world feels bigger, warmer. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

He moved slowly around his corner, muscles rippling on his body where I hadn’t known muscles existed. Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mama must have known as well, because she wrapped Ophie up in a hug and squeezed her tight. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Others — who may not have known Revere personally — might have been skeptical about the accuracy of his information. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like a real-life version of Faulkner’s Thomas Sutpen, he seemed to have come out of nowhere—a man with no known past. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

I'd sure never known any of my people who did, except maybe the church bishop and his wife. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Even though lead was widely known to be dangerous, by the early years of the twentieth century it could be found in all manner of consumer products. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

The full scope of the dangerous interaction of chemicals is as yet little known, but disturbing findings now come regularly from scientific laboratories. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

In the bar, the barbershop, the club, and at the Red Lantern, I let it be known that there would be a reward for anyone who delivered him to me. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gangsters — known as tsotsis — carrying flick-knives or switchblades were plentiful and prominent; in those days they emulated American movie stars and wore fedoras and double-breasted suits and wide, colorful ties. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Despite the alternative, despite knowing that if they hadn’t tried to escape, all of them might’ve died, it still hurt, even though he hadn’t known them very well. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

It is all so wild, and mysterious, and strange that if I had not known Jonathan’s experience in Transylvania I could not have believed. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

The men tested the metal detector on three former Civil War soldiers who each had a bullet in a known location of the body. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

In the moment before calling out to the woman a second time, Salva realized what Uncle had truly meant— something Salva had known in his heart for a long time: His family was gone. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

University College London, which was known as the godless university, where great men were thinking great thoughts—but were not being trained, as at Cambridge and Oxford, for the church. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Clearly there was more to extinctions than could be accounted for by a single Noachian deluge, as the Biblical flood was known. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

He had known in that instant that there could be no hesitation, no shred of indecision. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

I have known this guy since I was very young. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Now, in order to be promoted, every student in third, sixth, and eighth grade had to manage a minimum score on the standardized, multiple-choice exam known as the Iowa Test of Basic Skills. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

As with the Northwest Ordinance, both sides could declare victory; and the true victors would only become known with the passage of time. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

I wished so bad I could of known Uncle Camp for the past three years like I knew him now that he was dead. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

The desert sky he had known before was always empty. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

It is kept as a pet by those who enjoy its kaleidoscopic colour changes, and its venom is one of the few substances known to kill Horklumps. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps if he had known what those men in town were capable of, he never would have done something so dangerous as vote. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

But her own name remains the best known of all. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

In good weather, the auctions were held outdoors, on a hilltop in Pawhuska, in the shade of a large tree known as the Million Dollar Elm. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

I had known only about the one time, the first time, when I was there, making bird feeders. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z

I might have known she wasn’t going to keep out of it. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everyone knows Irish girls keep themselves pure especially Limerick girls known the world over for their purity who have a man to come back to like Gerry Halvey himself. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

“Everything is known,” was the only reply he received from Aureliano when he asked him where he had got that information from. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

He’s one of the smartest people I’ve ever known, so I would be stupid to refuse. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

I also began to get involved in politics, and even joined a gym where a gigantic trainer forced me to exercise certain muscles I hadn’t even known I had. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

And unless for some reason you had started a discussion with her about literature or mathematics, you would never have known the extent of her brain-power. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

But home in this instance is not a restful place; it’s more like what is known in the military as a “situation.” Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The girls passed the Meeting House, turned down Short Street and went on down the pathway that was known as the South Road. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

Their jobs and their family set them apart, but they were best known for their unrelenting meanness. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Within an hour the half-friendly world that I had known had turned cold and hostile. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

He hoped that the tree had known what she was talking about. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilised by education: they grow there, firm as weeds among stones. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Fhew! I might a’ known a rat would make a nest under this trough. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

I had known that things were bad, but my mother’s tears had let loose something in me: fear. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

Unfortunately, I recognized it: the palace of the Titans on top of Mount Othrys, otherwise known as Mount Tamalpais, in California. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Though the Germans fell on the Americans like a whirlwind, more American reinforcements soon arrived and launched a vicious counterattack known as the Battle of the Bulge. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

I wasn’t going to betray the only truth I’d ever known in my life. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

“Why he was started anyway is not known, but it seems a shame that his unbeaten record for the eastern invasion was not kept unsullied.” Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I would not have known that there were other suns and other worlds. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our parents have known each other since their old Hyderabad days, and my mom has been trying to make a friendship happen since Yasmeen’s family moved to the States several years ago. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

“I was thinking about how strange it is that we haven’t even known each other for two weeks, but it feels like I’ve known you for much longer than that,” he said. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

And as he cut himself adrift, both from them and simultaneously from that other world he had known before them, he marveled: What an awful thing the truth is, and how comforting is a lie. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

“What if you’d known that you and Dad would be separated? Would you have jumped in anyway?” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

Whatever their faults, I’d never known my school friends in Florida to die on me. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

The trick was to say no without offending anyone, especially Cole, who was known to be a little bit crazy. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

Frank was better known for the Giant Goldfish Fiasco in Atlanta, and, just yesterday, for turning into a two-hundred-kilo gorilla only to get knocked senseless by a flash-bang grenade. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Reynie had never known his parents, who died when he was an infant, and it pleased him to read a notice that seemed to take this possibility into account. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

If I hadn’t known that before, I knew it now. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

“Yes, it was strange, wasn’t it? That he should have known the high language, I mean.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

No one could know what this temporary master, Doc Thompson, as he was known in Bucktown, would be like. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had known from the first moment that Elaine was bound to come. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

She might not have known every word, but she knew very well what Mom was saying. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Syriza was known for its spires, and this was the king of them all. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Perhaps he had only that word, she thought, but it was one word more than she had known he had, and somehow it made her feel a little better. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

About 90 percent of the tablets in the earliest known Sumerian archives, from the city of Uruk, are clerical records of goods paid in, workers given rations, and agricultural products distributed. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

So little is known of Norwood that it may in fact be that he deserved his unhappy declining years. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

We talked about old girls we’d known and the racist store worker and if because of him the cops would be out looking for us tomorrow. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

“She wasn’t making it up. She read it truly. She told me things she could never have known otherwise.” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

The island is known for snorkeling, and a small American expat community exists there. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

I should have known not to anticipate a great birthday because I had always been disappointed before. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Using a new style of attack known as blitzkrieg, German for “lightning war,” Hitler’s planes, tanks, and soldiers slashed deep into Polish territory. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the Red Army met the invading Germans to fight back, the concentrated force and fury along that line became known as World War II’s Eastern Front. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

He had known her forever, but something had happened in the last year. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

The noise and activity and energy dwarfed what he had known in the Old World. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

It was a simple fact known even to children that to anger a king, even one so good as King Hamlet could mean death. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Deep inside, I must have known all along that I would be making this journey. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

The highlight would take place on Saturday with the dedication of the memorial, now widely known as “the Wall.” Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

If the target is well known, the number of intermediates is even smaller, especially if you have a link with one or two celebrities. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The transition from prehistory to the First Dynasty is known as the predynastic period. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

I protested, “A man is known by his deeds.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Burnham became an avid player of bridge, though he was known widely for being utterly inept at the game. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

So that’s why I’m known at work simply as E. J. Jackson. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rowan didn’t know if it was his imagination, but there seemed to be more scythes and known celebrities frequenting Goddard’s parties than when he first arrived. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

One will then see the simplicity with which these concepts lead to properties already known and to an infinity of others which ordinary geometry does not seem to touch easily. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

More than thirty British bombers were lost and crashed in fog after a single mission in December 1943, an event known as “Black Thursday.” A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

This was a side of the old woman he hadn’t known, but he hadn’t gone near her if he could help it. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

“I might have known! There s a fly in this soup!” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

I tried everything, missus, every known cure on God’s lovely earth. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Before they reached their desired haven, however, a long time passed, and much happened which if they had known beforehand might have checked their eagerness. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even as he spoke, the bloodstained grass turned green again and there bloomed forth the wondrous flower that was to make the lad’s name known forever. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Had she known berth twenty-two was their real destination? Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The thirteen days that followed became known in the United States as the "Cuban Missile Crisis" and in the Soviet Union as the "Caribbean Crisis." Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

My parents had known all along that I was involved with gangs and had said nothing, but when the harassment increased, I decided to tell them that I had quit gang life. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had not known there were so many. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

And because Ms. Dale has also known Axel through her five shades of hair color and four years of school, she adds, “It’s important. I want to go over a weather-related drill with you.” A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

I fought down a flush and wondered how he had known I was hoping to find Denna here. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

She realized that she had never known a Joaquin before, that she had never said the name before. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

The dunes were changed constantly by the wind, yet these were the same sands he had known since he was a child. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

And since there was nothing overtly suspicious about it—“Children of folks who lived through the Depression are known for keeping large amounts of cash where they can see it,” the detective said. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

“They bicker like cats in a bag, worried they’re not getting enough attention. If only I’d known you were coming along, I would have waited.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile, in Sir Palomides' room, where the door was kept locked, there was such a stitching and snipping and painting and arguing as had seldom been known before. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

I enjoyed Francis’ words, even though they lacked the casual sense of understatement known to be the correct way to behave in Cambridge. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

He had known that the Queen’s party was unarmed, and that Lancelot was not with them. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

"She is nothing, Khaleesi. The riders do her honor. The Lamb Men lay with sheep, it is known." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The FBI tracked down former Langley engineer Eastman Jacobs, known for his left- leaning sympathies, and interrogated him at his new home in California. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

He could not have known, who came home with nothing, to nothing, to four years less than nothing. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jam could already feel the familiar warmth of Redemption’s house wrapping around her like a soft, fuzzy blanket she’d known for years. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

He was the only person Charles Darwin was ever known to hate. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

But she couldn’t have known what was going to happen, or even that I’d read this. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

If the Germans had known Olive and had been sensible they would have gone out of their way not to anger her. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

She hadn’t known she could worry so much about someone other than Dallas. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

“No. It’s just indigestion. Of course, indigestion, also known as dyspepsia, is a term that describes a wide range of gastrointestinal maladies.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

In fact, Nebraska’s huge ash deposits had been known about for a long time. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

He had never known a time like this. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

He'd known, perhaps, that Richmond was being deliberately sent to death. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

I thought of Clifton and of Jack himself; how much was really known about either of them? Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

This horrific nationwide cleanup, which went on for two years, is now known as the “Great Terror” or the “Great Purge.” A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

He had known some of Sing Sing’s officers and white-shirts his whole life. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’s always known part of her resents their mom for the position they occupy in the world, for not having a normal life, for taking herself away from them. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

The East German government referred to the structure as the "Anti-Fascist Protection Rampart"; it was bordered by minefields and a no-man's-land known as the "death strip." Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

She was the first "nice" girl he had ever known. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

This was a piece that was well known to the young Debussy, who revered Liszt as a disciple, and who was honoured to be able to play for him in person in 1888. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

If Gryffindor won, Harry knew that the whole House would forget that they had criticized him and swear that they had always known it was a great team. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

“If someone had found something, I would have known.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

At night when he was trying to sleep, Yossarian would call the roll of all the men, women and children he had ever known who were now dead. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Sometimes I wonder if they might have helped us if they’d known. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

The quest for such a theory is known as “the unification of physics.” A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was the bravest, strongest woman I’d ever known, and though I knew she faced all kinds of discrimination on a daily basis, she only rarely discussed it. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

I look around and realize that everyone in this room is, right now, being forced to sit in a class with a known homosexual. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

He had known her all his life; she had been his older sister’s older friend, and then his mother’s faithful visitor; she had never, for Gabriel, been young. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

I didn’t believe it could be Alaska, either, until I figured out that she was the only person on campus who could've known what Marya was doing. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

The group that runs war games for the U.S. military is called the Joint Forces Command, or, as it is better known, JFCOM. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

I know only that I wished to recount it, and to speak of those whom I have known and who have striven for virtue and have perished. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Never would they have landed if they had known what lay before them. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

The tamandua, also known as the lesser anteater, can be found in trees and on the ground. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

“But I never would have joined if I’d known what I was going up against,” Perry once said. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were only the sounds he had known all these years in Salem—the creaking of the old wooden house, buffeted by Atlantic winds. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We have known what it is like to be hungry, pisho,” she said. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

In surveying, you started from a known point and ran your lines by compass. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

If I’d known how essential those mittens would be now, I’d never have taken them out of my flight bag—except to wear them. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

He thought of all the married shepherds he had known. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps the best known of these training programs is Operation Pipeline. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“I have known him since he was a child, it is the least I can do.” The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

So instead of chopping the tree down he went to see a certain woman who was well known in that part for using charms to solve difficult problems. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

The ancestral language may derive from what is known as the Hopewell culture. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

I will be forever known as “that girl who got nailed by potatoes the first day.” Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

Everyone, I suppose, wanted to be known as a murderer in prison. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had not known I had a gun, and I think he really could not believe it when he heard the shot. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

He’d never seen him angry before, let alone wrathful, and it made him seem bigger somehow, an altogether different and more dangerous species of Strange than the one he had known all these years. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Little is known about what he studied there. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Like any warren, the Levee had passageways known only to its inhabitants. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

The great secret, known to internists and learned early in marriage by internists’ wives, but still hidden from the general public, is that most things get better by themselves. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Snowfall is never known there, neither long frost of winter, nor torrential rain, but only mild and lulling airs from Ocean bearing refreshment for the souls of men— the West Wind always blowing. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t think the Council wants it to be widely known.” Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

The ‘escape’ may have been allowed or arranged, and well known in the Dark Tower. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

If I'd known, I wouldn't even have sat on the terrace. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

Yet my presence was known throughout the region: I was a gaudy flag waving overhead during all those months of sickness and oblivion, just a girl in love, the center of my own universe. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The world known to the ancient Greeks was a tiny place. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

I had editors—more teachers—and these were the first white people I’d ever really known on any personal level. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

“Ah, Father Abbot, you read me like a book. I do have a secret, but trust me, all will be made known to you in the fullness of time.” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

I was so surprised, because in all the years I had known him, I don’t think I had ever said a word to him, nor him to me. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

With that, his father left the room, and Benton, anger boiling up from places he hadn’t known existed, clenched his fists tightly and, for a few moments, forgot how to breathe. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

In the early days, mill owners greeted workers by their first name each morning, inquiring about the health of children, who might also be known by name. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Songs in which the first section returns again at the end are known as ternary, three-part or ABA. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Even at that age, he’d known that if his father had been there, somehow the kite’s failure would have ruined the afternoon. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

But a small group known as the Hollywood Ten refused to answer questions, citing the First Amendment of the US Constitution, which grants citizens the freedom of speech and association. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

“As a matter of fact, I’ve been known to take a perfectly normal rainy day as a personal insult. So this is absolute manna to me.” Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

We were visited by a Coloured minister known as Brother September. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Aunty Ifeoma softened her voice; she must have known the firm voice would not penetrate the fixed smile on Mamas face. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Hurt Cynthia to lose the only grandmother she'd ever known, but her sadness was nothing compared to Cinder's. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

He, Artemis Fowl, had been duped, even though he’d known it was coming. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

It’s just not the thing I wanted to be known for in middle school. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

The names of many Patriots in the spy war will never be known. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were known to be five regular or “platonic” solids, whose sides were regular polygons, as known to the ancient Greek mathematicians after the time of Pythagoras. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sky shimmered an even tiger yellow she had not known to fall in the range of atmospheric effects; she beheld it with a wonder much like that with which, recently, she considered her life. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

And here, in Lord Dunmore’s Regiment, the singers meet and exchange and bicker over variations, all eager to have their song known. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

The event, however, was most joyful; and every day was giving her fresh reason for thinking so.—Harriet’s parentage became known. Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

Everybody sings “Happy Birthday,” this group who has known him for only one evening. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

We’re known for that, the politeness, not running around throwing spears at people. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Weirdly tied up with this idea, and by a reasoning process known only to Johnny, was the idea of taking Little Tilly along on the trip. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yeah, well, I wasn’t interested in being known. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

Amil didn’t ask why I wasn’t being punished, even though Papa must have known I skipped, too. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

And Mother Fletcher went off into telling stories to Meaghan about how long she had known Santa Claus and how she used to have to lend him her handkerchief because his nose was always running. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

It's the safest place to smoke a cigarette in the known universe. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

The irrealis mood is found in many languages, where it expresses situations that are not known to have happened, including hypotheticals, imperatives, and questions. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

“I just regret that I didn’t pay more attention. If I had, maybe I would have known what you were going through. I acted selfishly.” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

I'd known her for a while now; she came around the deli on Wednesdays—at eight thirty exactly—and Mama would always give her a meal and bag of fruit. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Not only had he known that it would be me, he also had sent Ucho to keep watch. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

Admittedly, he'd only known her for twelve days, but the whole idea of the Theorem was that you didn't have to know someone intimately in order for it to work. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile in Philadelphia–Wistar’s city–naturalists had begun to assemble the bones of a giant elephant-like creature known at first as "the great American incognitum" but later identified, not quite correctly, as a mammoth. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

However, as is well known, the peoples compared differ greatly in their social environment and educational opportunities. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

There The women I worked with were all white and, with one exception, Anglo, as are the plurality of housecleaners in America, or at least those known to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Red Cross team is easy to recognize, with their white T-shirts emblazoned with the large red symbol known the world over. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

“I should have known. May I ask where the money comes from to support this decadent whimsy of yours?” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

And now Islam meant more to me than anything I ever had known in my life. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I mean, they’ve always known that I’m weird and ambitious, so maybe they expect me to do the weirdest things possible. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

We round Callisto and pass the orbit of Jupiter 13, the outermost of the planet’s known moons. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Xan was an old woman, and he was a young dragon, and he couldn’t have possibly known her when she was young, could he have? The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

We had known from the start that Mr. Kendall was as dumb as he was mean. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

The authorities had made no announcement, and had I not managed to get word out through a sympathetic jailer, no one would have known that I had left Johannesburg. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But few of his geniuses were nationally known figures. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Soon after returning to Berkeley, Alvarez decided to focus his research efforts on the lab’s most intriguing experimental project: the search for an elusive decay process known as K-capture. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

“To think I worried about that little bird. I might have known it would gobble up a nice fat partridge in no time.” The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

“He’s been my best friend since I moved here. He officially came out last year, but a part of me has always known.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

But still, Kaylee is saying this stuff like not only has she known it all her life, but like everyone with half a brain would know it, too. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

As a known hustler, it’s also the easiest game in town to get away with—no contraband for the cops to find if they frisk you. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

That he was from a country not well known for its coast made his achievements all the more remarkable. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

I mean, I had to have known this big thing, this massive news about my whole entire world, but I just kept thinking, Mom and Dad don’t know about us. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

If she’d known, he would have heard about it in scolding tones from sunup until sundown for nearly the rest of his life. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

Even if Pong had known how to swim, he had been too terrified to make a break for the shore in the daylight. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Lazlo had known the passage for years, and had assumed it was fantasy—but he had discovered in Thanagost that it was real. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“That’s one of the ridiculous things which men always say. I have never known one to speak otherwise of fanning. How long will you be gone?” The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

In midafternoon we reached a bizarre procession of freestanding ice pinnacles, the largest nearly 100 feet high, known as Phantom Alley. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

I witnessed perhaps the ultimate in bloodless curriculum while researching a magazine story several years ago—a robotic teaching method known as Direct Instruction. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Since 1953 this act had enforced what was known as “petty apartheid,” segregating parks, theaters, restaurants, buses, libraries, toilets, and other public facilities, according to race. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

As cyclotrons around the world contributed to the list of known isotopes, rumors and expectations began to surface that the accelerator’s inventor might be in line for the Nobel Prize. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

I should have known, I guess, having heard him dreaming when he was sick, and the way he talked to Edward. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

These brief Purple messages, following no known pattern, were an almost impossible riddle. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“What will happen when...enlightenment actually comes to pass and the facts of heredity are...commonly known?” he wrote, with striking prescience, in 1905. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Perhaps the best- known subject is a man or boy gingerly holding a “were-jaguar”: a limp, fat, sexless baby with a flattened nose and a snarling jaguar mouth. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

When he came upon a town, he would have known exactly whose door to knock on, who the local militia leader was, who the key players in town were. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

They probably wouldn’t have even known each other. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

At each stage of his imprisonment he had known, or seemed to know, whereabouts he was in the windowless building. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

They lived in a beautiful brick house in Smithfield, an area of Birmingham better known as “Dynamite Hill” because of the routine Klan bombings there. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

You realize there is a need for something to help you see sraf and instantly, out of the materials we have known for thousands of years, you put together an instrument to do so. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

From the dark of the closet Carlos has heard tones, not content, known presences, not personalities. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

He’s always running off to Mass with his mother, who is known for her holiness. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

What if one said, “I will abide by the word of him who is highest in this land”? But wasn’t that word already known? Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

The girls took it as a sign that the island was known and there would be an eventual rescue, especially if Jennifer could get the radio up and running. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

The day would lie before us both, long no doubt and uneventful, but fraught with a certain stillness, a dear tranquility we had not known before. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

The two of them together are known as Beauty and the Beast. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

A related chemical, pentachlorophenol, sometimes known as “penta,” is used as a weed killer as well as an insecticide, often being sprayed along railroad tracks and in waste areas. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Bobby had known Jackie since childhood and they were an odd pair. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

If I had known what the next six years of my life were going to be like, I would have eaten more. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Had he known, at that time, that they would need his very existence? The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

I felt so dumb that I hadn’t known his place in the hierarchy of this stupid school, I felt dumb that I’d never asked him what he did in his free time. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

The system, known as servi-cha, or service car, was invented in the late 1990s by government and military elites to milk cash from traders who needed to move themselves and their goods around the country. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

If I had known then, he thought, that Groucho was going to die...but that had been before the tetanus. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

With a copy of the Continuation in his hands, Newcomen would have known almost everything that Papin knew about how to harness atmospheric pressure to build an engine. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

A man named Klipspringer was there so often and so long that he became known as "the boarder"--I doubt if he had any other home. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

Once through the gate, she could finally see before her the house known as Ashton Place. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

Even at that point, in 1957, the Food and Drug Administration could not instantly rescind the tolerance which allowed residues of a known carcinogen to contaminate food consumed by the public. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

She had never in all her life known the feeling of a locked door. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

The plans that he and Illyrio had made with Blackheart had been known to them alone. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I remember the very night that she became known as one of the showtime favorites there at the Roseland. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Blessed Love! Am I wicked to be glad you are missing me? But if I hadn’t come away, I couldn’t have known you’d write me such darling letters, could I?” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Nok must have known he was looking at her, but she kept her head tucked under her arm, like a pigeon using its wing to shelter from the rain. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

We knew how bad he wanted that bike, but you wouldn’t have known it to look at him. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

She had a crown on her head, and everyone she had ever known came before her, to bend the knee and say their courtesies. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

It is not yet clear what they accomplish for the insect, but it is known that the species cannot survive long without them. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

In India, for God knows how many centuries, it’s been known as japam. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

Suddenly, white foam frothed all around her as other rocks made their presence known. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

There is a sort of camaraderie that rarely exists except between men who have fought the same enemies and known the same women. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He must have known already, but the plain words were a sucker punch. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Then he would have known that Joseph wasn’t like that. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

He had known the identity of the author before he turned the last sheet over and saw the signature. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

The many orphaned children found in these places became known as “wandering sparrows.” Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Another thing that happened in John’s gambling house contributed: the incident that made it known that 1 carried not a gun, but some guns. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thanks to desegregation, football was blacks’ claim to fame in Odessa, the thing they were known for, and there was no better proof than the Wall of Fame. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I'd known the stuff from childhood, but had forgotten it; had learned it back of school . Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The earliest known examples appeared in northeastern Lousiana about 5,400 years ago, well before the advent of agriculture. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

It was well known that the ten-year-old prince was rotten and spoiled, inside and out, and she remembered the scandal that had erupted a few months before her capture. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Bus 209 is also known as the poor kid bus, because it goes to Brentwood Apartments and Forest Oaks, which are the bad neighborhoods with houses that don’t have basements for when tornadoes come. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

A daring she had never known filled Daenerys then, and she gave the filly her head. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The effectiveness of the suffragist and temperance movements would endow American women with more power than they had ever known. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Thus, in La Paz, it was known in the early morning through the whole town that Kino was going to sell his pearl that day. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

Meaning that he knows what he likes and what he doesn’t and how to make that known. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

The freedom of land and sky they had known was gone. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thought he was being ironic, but I should have known better. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

When he was young, he was a world-class tennis player, and over the past fifty years, he has coached and counseled and known many of the greatest tennis players in the history of the game. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

Paul McCartney was mindful of the advice when he sang, “So may I introduce to you, the act you’ve known for all these years: Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band!” The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

The women in our culture are known for working incredibly hard, juggling so many things—raising the children, working on the farm, harvesting, fetching and chopping firewood, and then cooking dinner for the men. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Yet here were two white persons whom I had known hardly a day, treating me as if we had known each other for years, as if we were brothers and sisters. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first was the Baltimore Plot, in 1861, in which a group known as the Knights of the Golden Circle planned to shoot Lincoln as he traveled to Washington for the inauguration. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

“You are the strongest person I have ever known. You can hold on for a while longer, I know you can.” The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

One fragment, known as Nucleus G, struck with the force of about six million megatons–seventy-five times more than all the nuclear weaponry in existence. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

If there were cavalry here, the roads and routes would be known. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It is said your uncle and his wife are eating. How else are they living and with strength enough to walk about—they, who, it is known, have never had anything?” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

My mom had this gift for putting people at ease, treating each person she met like she’d known them for years. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Son,” said Aslan to the Cabby, “I have known you long. Do you know me:' ’ “Well, no, sir,” said the Cabby. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

The first stage of our election effort was what was known as People’s Forums. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had always known about bars — Shanghai was full of them — but he had never actually been inside one before. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

To begin with, it was discovered that one of the basic components of Libby’s formula, known as the decay constant, was off by about 3 percent. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

I had never known Shawn to apologize twice. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

It huddled on the edge of a dead, dirty lake, fed by a river best known for burning; it was built on a river whose very name meant sadness: Chagrin. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I hadn’t even known I’d been making a grand Negro spectacle out of myself, bawling over a word in the dictionary. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

They could have showed us a thousand big, flat-faced men, and we would have known Mr. Kendall in a trice. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

“Bitter, you didn’t tell me this one was coming. I would have sliced five more plantains, had I known. These ones won’t be enough.” Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

She had known of a young boy who had drowned. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

He wondered whether El Patron had known about it. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is nothing like the schooling Gogol’s parents have known, fountain pens and polished black shoes and notebooks and good names and sir or madam at a tender age. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I must admit that even though me and Howard hadn’t known each other very long, he could read me like a book. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Tree-ear knew every potter in the village, but until recently he had known them only for their rubbish heaps. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

This high-score list quickly came to be known as “the Scoreboard.” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

The power was not yet on along South Beach, and as Ishmael Chambers drove through the snow he glanced into the candlelit windows of the homes he’d known since childhood. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Hatun ended our time together with words that I couldn’t have prepared for properly even if I had known they were to come. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

In March 1938, he took control of Austria and, in early October, part of what was then known as Czechoslovakia. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

She hadn’t known how she could continue on with both him and Taisin weighing her down. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

The heat of it on his face was sweeter than any kiss Jon had ever known. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Unfortunately, however, these two theories are known to be inconsistent with each other—they cannot both be correct. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first Europeans known to have reached the Americas were the Vikings, who appeared off eastern Canada in the tenth century. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

No sooner had Hodor entered the godswood than Summer emerged from under an oak, almost as if he had known they were coming. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Anything to see a glimmer of the woman Ophie had once known. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

She had not known this: she had not imagined that she could fall. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

He must have known she loved him even if she hadn’t told him. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

During an eight-year career playing for seven major league teams, he became known as one of the greatest base stealers the game had yet seen. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

This may be enough to keep the real wolves, also known as the Peacekeepers, from my door. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Above all, the tune and even the words of Beasts of England were known everywhere. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

The woman took Amari in her arms and let her cry, the only comfort she had known since that horrible night in the village. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ve known Richie for a long time. He’s a graduate of Howard University, and a working engineer. He’s also with the Guardians. “ Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

I nod, open to anything that will take me away from the hulking crudeness known as Farooq, currently inside Baba’s. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

Sesame Street is best known for the creative geniuses it attracted, people like Jim Henson and Joe Raposo and Frank Oz, who intuitively grasped what it takes to get through to children. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is headquartered in the prestigious office building known as Black Rock. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

They rolled down the street away from the only home he had ever known. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

He took me to clubs and he was well known to folks there. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Will had known they would drag him into the quarrel sooner or later. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

She couldn’t have known what was going to happen, Annabelle tells herself, when she thinks about his hand holding hers under the library table. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

The artist’s full name was Johannes Vermeer, also known as Jan Vermeer, and he was from the Netherlands, in northern Europe. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

I had known he would, but it didn’t matter. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Before the rebellion, the old knight thought him too young and untried; afterward, he had been known to say that the Kingslayer should exchange that white cloak for a black one. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

When they asked us how we made it across the river if grown men were known to drown in it, we said we were great swimmers. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

All of his immediate family, his wife Clytemnestra, his children, Iphigenia, Orestes and Electra, were as well known as he was. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was not an easy case, with little if no precedent and a potential defendant in Reggie who may well not have known the risks of his behavior. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

She was different from any girl I had known. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

But they were such exceptional, unassuming kids you wouldn’t have known they were rich or lived in such a big house—and the trees, the lawn, everything so tended and cared for. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

I should have known that the only reason Buphead and By would want to play with me was to do something mean. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s not hard for me to believe that the Bureau would do bad things, because every government I’ve ever known has done bad things, even the Abnegation oligarchy, of which my father was the head. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

The fact that Magyarkanizsa was known as “The City of Silence” also made it attractive to Bobby...at least at first. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

It appears Bono is known among our Company, and is a favorite already of many. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

His father was a preacher who had once known John Brown. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

She had known it would happen fast, but could not quite believe that eleven days ago Pauline had been alive. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Here lies the problem: The great master known as Johannes Vermeer painted, in truth, only twenty-six of the thirty five paintings we now attribute to him. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

Even without the maybes, there was no getting around the brutal reality that, for a couple of days there in October, I’d known how, and when, someone was going to die. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

He had really not known how he was to face the pity. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Later, when his fate became known, his boyhood friends would wish for his sake that he had gone the way of the academy. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had known since she woke the first time to Jhiqui's tears. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Had they known of Pollard’s blindness, the stewards would rightly have banned him from racing. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Alice Paul had known that the words would inflame the public and get a response. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Even the Romans had raised him on a shield and made him praetor, and he’d only known them for a couple of weeks. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Kapu had known it was coming and had brought food for her. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

In all the years she had known him she had not encountered this expression before. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

The US tests, known as Operation Hardtack, had been planned for nearly three years and were to encompass surface, underwater, and high-altitude trials. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

If she had only told the truth about herself in the first place, the Smokies would have known what to do with the pendant. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

My eyes must have been starved for color and I hadn’t known it. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Summer was just deciding to make itself known again and everything was green and growing. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The butcher’s boy was a well- known tyrant. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I seemed never to have known that before. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Whitiker was struck by his manners and how he spoke like the teachers and social workers she had known growing up— enunciating his words, slipping in a few she didn’t know. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

She hadn’t known about Hades’s curse preventing the spirit of Delphi from taking another host. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

He had known all along that the registration office would be closed. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

It has been known to create crude clothing from leaves. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The emperor is not known for his humility,” Amah said, “and great deeds carved in stone do have much power.” When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

When and how Hermes and Athena came to his help is not told in any story, but he must have known despair before they did so. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

He confessed that for years he had been in personal touch with Goldstein and had been a member of an underground organization which had included almost every human being he had ever known. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Billy Ray Gusdorf, known simply as Ray these days, was a lean, quiet man who, in a lean and quiet way, believed in God. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was only five years old and already he’d known two wars in his short life. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Fishtail and Deydey looked blankly and patiently at him when he said this, for LaPautre was known for recounting visions and dreams that had very little meaning, though they seemed to affect him hugely. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

Miss Parrish, known to friends as Cassie, was a popular athlete and member of the theatre club at Amoskeag High. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

I’d never been born again with the baptism and weeping and all that, but it couldn’t feel much better than being born again as a guy with no known past. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

She hadn’t even known it was true until she said it. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Humpbacks are known for their remarkable leaps and their extraordinary communications. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

We’ve known each other for almost a year, but he's so awkward. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

“Simple. Indianapolis, the capital of Indiana, is home to a race known as the Indy 500.” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

“DePaul would be perfect. This is what the Jesuits are known for. Or, if he didn’t like it there, go for the University of Illinois,” she counseled. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lou Gehrig is in the seventh school district, otherwise known as the South Bronx, one of the poorest neighborhoods in New York City. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

All they had to do was crook their fingers and the girls would come running, eager to be known as the girlfriend of a member of the exalted Big Creek team. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

If she had come out more often, sat on the stoop or gossiped in front of the beauty shop, she would have known more than what the paper said. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

When it will be time to make it known. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

He looked so surprised, like he should've known this about Patty since they had been friends for so many years. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

The next day, Patricia Webb ran some tests on the virus and found that it did not react to any of the tests for Marburg or any other known virus. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the other hand, he had been known to walk halfway across town, knock on a door and say sweetly to a surprised parent, “I hear there’s a birthday boy in here.” Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

Her devotion to the Sacred Heart is known up and down the lane and in lanes beyond. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

“But this is not like anything we’ve ever known, is it?” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Also known as Enigma G, it was the machine Elizebeth’s spies were likely to be using. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

He let it be known that he was willing to have his tenants back—under certain conditions, of course—but none of them returned. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

She wondered how many other things she would have forgotten, both big and small, things that she wouldn’t have even known that Peach needed until it was too late. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

The fact was that where Will was concerned, she was developing a new kind of sense, as if he were simply more in focus than anyone she’d known before. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kabuo had done what he could in these circumstances to assist the friend he had known since childhood, a boy he’d fished with years earlier. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Up to now I had felt a wholeness about my work and direction such as I'd never known; not even in my mistaken college days. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

I should have known he wouldn’t let me get away that easily. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

At the very bottom of J. T.’s organization were as many as two hundred members known as the rank and file. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Of the nature of women, nothing final can be known. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Our family seemed to be quickly returning to life as we’d known it. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

The House of Oedipus, the last of the royal family of Thebes, was known no more. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Why do I feel like I’ve always known you?” he asks. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

This was the first step of what was known as Procedure 40, a cipher used by spies broadcasting from fascist Spain. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Bob, who’s been known to munch on bugs from time to time, offers to eat him. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

“Speak of the spawn of Satan and he shall make his presence known.” Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Had I known at the first what now I know—nay, had I even guess at him—one so precious life had been spared to many of us who did love her. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

The moons were named by him the ‘Medician stars’, in honour of Cosimo, but are known to astronomers today as the Galilean satellites of Jupiter. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

And this was possible because a murder was usually committed by a person who was known to the victim. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The children hadn’t slept, but you wouldn’t have known it to look at them. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

"Lord Walder is my father's bannerman. I have known him since I was a girl. He would never offer me any harm." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Strangely, it also emerged that he had known the rats. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

I had never known how much one moment could hurt. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

“The devil has only thirty-three degrees of knowledge- known as Masonry,” Reginald said. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Very little is known about his early life, but some accounts say that he also studied at Oxford, although there is no formal record of this. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

These stories were so well known to Pong that they felt as ordinary as the village itself. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

He said he had known it because this morning he saw Papa take out the jasmine incense. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

It was suffused with a weak, academic light—different from Plano, different from anything I had ever known—a light that made me think of long hours in dusty libraries, and old books, and silence. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

He should have known that something was different because all the junior scythes were there today to watch his training. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

This story still gets repeated, despite the fact that the documents which are supposed to support it do not exist, and have been known not to exist since 1936. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

In our time together, I’d never known him to be wrong about anything. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

These, on the other hand, were whites who did not want it known that they had been anywhere near Harlem. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rock musician known as Kenna grew up in Virginia Beach, the child of Ethiopian immigrants. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

And she had known Caesar was dead for a long time now. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

As Grindelwald never extended his campaign of terror to Britain, however, the details of his rise to power are not widely known here. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

You wouldn't even have known it had snowed at all. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

Cicero, though he followed Aristotle, may not even have known his work firsthand. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

Alex has always known his gay American history—after all, his parents’ politics have been part of it—but it wasn’t until he figured himself out that he started to engage with it like Henry. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

We watched them anxiously and tended them with care and still we found them producing fewer seedpods, and dropping their leaves out of season, and some of them died outright, which had never been known. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

It was because of the molded sugar that Lyddie’s dream of taking the calf money home came true, though she couldn’t have known how that dream was going to come out. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

This whole long year, since the day Sam had arrived, Jinny had never really known what to say to the boy. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

“I wouldn’t trust them if I were you. They’ve been known to attack,” the woman said. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

That evening, a number of ANC people on what was known as the National Reception Committee came to the cottage to draft a statement that I would make the following day. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But none of this was known to the peasant standing on the carpet, unsure of where to put his hands and perspiring heavily. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The value of the grand unification energy is not very well known, but it would probably have to be at least a thousand million million GeV. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Those who have known this kind of hunger cannot entirely love, ever again, those who have not. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only six weeks later would his whereabouts become known, and then only by the bare bones: he was at MIT, working on an unidentified “war project.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Finally, I dial the number that I’ve known by heart for years and press the receiver to my ear. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

In that moment, some part of her had known that Shaniqua might have been a jerk, but she had spoken truth. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

A simple example: the conditional probability of having chosen a king card when it’s known that the card is a face card—a king, queen, or jack— is Vs. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He let out this wild laugh, as though, he hadn’t known the end of his own joke. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

And wouldn’t have tried if I had known. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

I know there will be no more names because Shay has made it known since Mr. Daniels first announced the election that anyone who runs against her will regret it. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

Though rightly known in her time as a city of lights, never in antiquity could she have shone quite like this. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

For the first time that I had known her, Mrs. lied. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

If I’d known being a criminal was this easy, I would have been bad a long time ago. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Had we known that you would be left out of your friend group, we would have gotten you a cell phone earlier, Junie,” my mom said. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

She shakes her head as though the idea were absurd, even though it's the only version of the story I've known until now. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Pippin had an uncomfortable feeling that most of what he had said or done was somehow known to the Lord of the City, and much was guessed of what he thought as well. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

When Cara and Joey left the room earlier to go use the computer, hadn’t he known that their “project” would have something to do with Cara’s newspaper? The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

No complete copy was known to Westeros, however; even the Citadel’s lacked twenty-seven scrolls. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Rashid must have known the emergency line would be jammed and had reached them some other way. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

And then, while writing, a new and thrilling relationship would spring up under the drive of emotion, coalescing and telescoping alien facts into a known and felt truth. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

As it was, he became known as Grub to his family and closest friends. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

“But we had an opening and we took it. Maybe we'll regret it down the line, but I doubt it. We’ve known each other forever. There’s no throwing away that friendship.” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

The episode that became known as Hillari’s Hoax took place in her sophomore year, when she tried out for cheer- leading. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

He was a nut, known for his lack of inhibitions, his complete disregard of the rules. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gramps implored us, but for four old guys, his friends were the pickiest eaters I'd ever known. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

When Donna and Chad exit the car, Justin says, “I’m so happy for you, Astrid. I wish I would have known before so I could have helped you.” Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

Her husband controlled her every move and kept her away from everyone she had once known, they said. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

But Harry was afraid: The hooded Death Eater had shouted “It’s the real one!”; how had he known? Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

I liked that so many things were out there, waiting to be known. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

No one will ever have known me or what I’ve done. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

He had held his son, who had known life only within her, against his chest in a darkened room in an unknown wing of the hospital. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Margaret had lied and had known that I wouldn’t contradict her. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

In a dark, forbidding chamber known as the Chapel of Evil, I found thousands of gold and silver coins hidden in the pews, right where they were supposed to be. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

It had meant playing with a broken ankle that wasn’t x-rayed because, if it had been known that it was broken, the player would have had to sit out the next game. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I am to go home for the rest of the summer—although it’s no longer the home I’ve always known as Mama is building a new house on the main road. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

As a result, they attracted a great deal of attention and it was soon widely known that two Afrikaner wardresses from the Fort had visited Winnie and me. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

This tiny female statuette is one of the earliest known human figures. The Annotated Mona Lisa 1992-06-01T00:00:00Z

My cynicism had been known, from time to time, to get me into accidental trouble. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

I hadn’t known this until I was eight and she bought me an Easter-dyed biddy from the mercantile. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Also that he had done very well for her in letting it be known how she had helped the Argonauts, so that people praised her. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Canon” was the term we used to classify any movie, book, game, song, or TV show of which Halliday was known to have been a fan. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

But let one man step out of the regular thought or the known and trusted pattern, and the nerves of the townspeople ring with nervousness and communication travels over the nerve lines of the town. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps if Obiora had not said, “Uncle Eugene,” I would not have known that it was Papa, that the tall stranger in the well-tailored white tunic was Papa. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

This was the beginning of what would be known, with even greater brevity, as the Rad Lab, and the launch of a new paradigm in scientific research. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

“She is! If she hadn’t knocked on her leg, I would never have known which one was fake.” The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

At the last moment, when they were almost on him, he jumped aside as Jon had known he would, stumbled, and fell. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Too many people had known I was in Durban. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He ultimately admitted that he had never known anything about the Morrison murder, had no clue what had happened to her or anything else at all about the crime. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The reason it’s worth standing up for punctu-ation is not that it’s an arbitrary system of notation known only to an over-sensitive elite who have attacks of the vapours when they see it misapplied. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z

The palace itself is known as the Hall of the Sun, and it’s supposed to be a marvel, but I’ve never seen it. Red Queen 2015-02-10T00:00:00Z

The pneumonia patient, on about the fourth or fifth day, would invariably reach what was known as ‘the crisis’. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

The magistrate was well known for his ruthlessness, as well as his greed. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

I should have known the theatre would prove to be as heartless and harsh as any other institution. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

The population is barely one thousand, and the most remarkable thing about it seems to be that it’s known for its large number of TV and radio transmitter towers. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

This is the fact that heptachlor, after a short period in the tissues of animals or plants or in the soil, assumes a considerably more toxic form known as heptachlor epoxide. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Nor is it surprising that when Revere set out for Lexington that night, he would have known just how to spread the news as far and wide as possible. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hadn't known what factitious meant, so I looked it up in the dictionary. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

He had not known the Union Army was on the move, was within two hundred miles, was even this side of the Potomac, but he nodded and said nothing. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

They hugged when they met and talked as if they’d known each other for a long time and discovered they actually did. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

It is now known that the mitochondria are tiny packets of enzymes, a varied assortment including all the enzymes necessary for the oxidative cycle, arranged in precise and orderly array on walls and partitions. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

If they’d known then what a kiss was, they couldn’t have. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

The grandness of the world, the real world, the whole world, is a known thing for you. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

He pauses before adding, “I cannot say that it has truly been an advantage. How long have you known?” The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The known world is at stake and Muhammad hasn’t left instructions on who will inherit all the goats and the yogurt and the servants and the countries. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

In October 1988, fifty years after the radio broadcast, Koch visited Grovers Mill, the town best known for an event that never happened. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

Some had been known to sell for hundreds of thousands of credits, depending on their powers. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

The answer came so readily to his lips that he thought that he had always known it deep down: Perhaps it had taken his recent encounter with Nagini to make him realize it. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

I can only hope these two particular guards subscribe to the antigerm fanaticism that the Nazis are well known for. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

I would have been looking at Ian Forbes and I would have known that, no matter what Miss Williams said, I wasn’t through with the king of England. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were also told to make sure that their “secret” moves became known to “persons who you are sure will divulge” those secrets. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

The millionaire’s name was Alfred Lee Loomis, and his domain was known as Tower House. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Betty, who was known to be a Catholic, crossed herself as the little crowd huddled closer to the entrance. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

And Cor, who had very much wanted the story to be known, though he felt he couldn't tell it himself, didn't enjoy it so much as he had expected, and indeed felt rather foolish. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

The town seemed more lonesome than any place he had ever known. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Anyway, after seeing Galapagos tortoises, reticulated pythons, and puff adders, the Pigman dragged us over to the Primate Building, more popularly known as the monkey house. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

In short, the Department of Agriculture embarked on its program without even elementary investigation of what was already known about the chemical to be used — or if it investigated, it ignored the findings. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

By winter break, Jeff and Rick were inseparable, and now it was as if the Checkers Champs were two kids who had known each other once, but had never met either George or Rick. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

Trolls generally converse in grunts that appear to constitute a crude language, though some have been known to understand and even to speak a few simple human words. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hadn’t known this was possible—to reject people for being white. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

It cast a bluish eerie glow by which we could see large craters and the darker flat areas known as maria, or seas. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He would become known as a vigilante who published “HeLa Hit Lists” in Science, listing any contaminated lines he found, along with the names of researchers who’d given him the cells. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

“I’ve known people here for a long time. You guys are my closest friends, though.” Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

I’d known Ambrose was rich, but honestly, everyone was rich compared to me. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“No acceleration—which means the ship works on a principle different from any known.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

Perhaps there was more truth to those wise old sayings than he’d known. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

If I had had sense, I would have known what all the other children knew: The best defense against Buffo was invisibility. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

It’s hot out and the sun is making its presence known in a significant way. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

She stood before the door and reminded herself that she had always known Forrest might show up. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

If my father had really talked with Madoc, he ought to have known better than to brag about stealing from him. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Eight days after mailing them, Ruess en-countered two sheepherders about a mile from the gulch and spent two nights at their camp; these men were the last people known to have seen the youth alive. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then she would have known which streets to avoid; or where she could scrounge some food; or, best of all, which doors to knock on and find shelter. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

As soon as Leo rejoined the crew in Malta, she’d known right away that Leo was hurting inside. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

She knew there was only one way the assassin could have known she had the book. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Not a helpless or pleading child, but a petulant one, the type of tough boy who’s known too little love and is quick to blame others for his mistakes. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Clearly I am going to have what is known in our commercial terminology as a merchandising problem. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

It charges a decidedly ambitious $50 a night for a bunk, dinner, and breakfast and consequently is widely known to thru-hikers as the Appalachian Money Club. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Then they took out the three sacks of gold from the hiding place which was known only to them and their victim. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

From medical journals he deduced that he was suffering from a newly identified ailment known as post-polio syndrome. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Enforcement of the laws that govern supernatural entities living in the known world. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Now, I have heard people ask this of Janine for almost as long as I have known her. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

As Bear made the sign of the cross over his heart, I said, “How did you know?” not sure which surprised me more, that he had known or that he hadn’t told me. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Yet had he known of it, he could have wrought a just and swift revenge. Alas, Fortune truly is a false dame!” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Her father held more fear than her mother, Jam had always known this. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

He was touched that a mouse he had known only a few minutes would share his food with him. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Have you ever known your old man to get himself in a situation he couldn’t handle?” The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

But he knew that only in the Brotherhood could we make ourselves known, could we avoid being empty Sambo dolls. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

If he had not known about their witchery, they might have fooled him. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

With sons I would have known what to do: frog catching, fishing, war strategies, running around in the mud. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

He knew they had been brought up together, had known each other sixty years, had never not loved one another deeply, and it thrilled him when he could hear them arguing. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

In Mendeleyev’s day just sixty-three elements were known, but part of his cleverness was to realize that the elements as then known didn’t make a complete picture, that many pieces were missing. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

The has of the dead fluttered out of their tombs and across the dark face of Egypt, revisiting the places they had known in life. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

“I think not. Some free companies have been known to take women, but... well, they are not Second Daughters, after all.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

By ‘popular’ I don’t mean some people quite liked it; I mean almost all city dwellers would have known the songs from the latest operas. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Upstairs was my bedroom, Baba’s room, and his study, also known as “the smoking room,” which perpetually smelled of tobacco and cinnamon. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

But Hype’s known to push the right buttons to make folks act a fool. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Slant added that he hath known a cat named Agamemnon. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

No one knows who named the house that has been known ever after as the Palace Flophouse and Grill. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Think of all the alligators and snakes, not to mention heat worse than we had here, and people had been known to fry not just eggs but bacon and sausage on South Carolina sidewalks. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

They forgot or ignored what little they had ever known of the Guardians, and of the labours of those that made possible the long peace of the Shire. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Its oyster fries were known throughout the state. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

All these consequences of radiation have been duplicated in laboratory studies by a large group of chemicals known as radio- mimetic or radiation-imitating. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

While at Mecca, I reminded them that it was their fault, since they themselves hadn’t done enough to make real Islam known in the West. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mark had never known such hatred for anyone, and in some faint part of his psyche he knew it wasn’t quite rational. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Colonel was known for his ability to detect even the slightest nod or gesture from bidders. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“I should have known the classrooms would be locked. I didn’t consider it.” The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

No, Oppenheimer said: “I have known him longer and closer than you; his fears that he was being, or might be, undermined in his position were a terror for him.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

I wanted to play the part of Rufus because I live in the projects, too, and like him, I’ve never known my father. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

How could they have known that we didn’t plan to go back? American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

The entire world had known about it for almost four years now, but no one seemed to understand its true meaning, and the Copper Key still had yet to be found. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

He had known from the beginning, he always knew, though he twisted and turned in his mind, trying to get away from whatever drove him. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

She had never known a woman to snore so loudly, but she had grown used to it whilst on the march, and even took some comfort in it now. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

This second, earlier culture became known as the Clovis culture. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

He had known several of them in previous assignments and other bases and he had met almost all of them in the days preceding his inauguration as their commander. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I have known it for a long time, but I have only just experienced it. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

I said, realizing that June must have known who I was all along, too. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I knew them just the way I’d known the old rules. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

I had known my parents might be dead—there were the rumors, after all, about where people went when they were taken. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

She steals into our food “locker,” she swipes our underwear from the central rod when we aren’t looking, and she has been known to report us for wall tapping with Cell # 60. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wanted to tell him that I had talked with every teacher I had ever known about just this same stuff. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Had dinosaurs been known, he would almost certainly have asked them to bring him home a triceratops. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

With the passage of time we may expect progressively more serious outbreaks of insects, both disease-carrying and crop-destroying species, in excess of anything we have ever known. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

He gave me a look of astonishment, as if I should have known. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

But I feel also an excitement that I have never before known. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

I just hadn’t known that I had wanted it. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

In August 1864, when a bacterial infection known as erysipelas sidelined him from the stage, Booth used his time to recruit a gang that would help him kidnap Lincoln. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

It was the chance he had been waiting for to show his authority, and for the first time since we’d known each other he put his hand on my shoulder. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

Then I saw the cover of a comic book and thought, Clifton would have known them better than I. He knew them all the time. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Poseidon must’ve known Tyson was one of the passengers, because one hippocampus was much larger than the other two—just right for carrying a Cyclops. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

And at least two of these deaths were known to be murders. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

She had heard of the river, of course, but had not known that it looked like a snake. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

He hadn’t known any of the others before their operation. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

As I wrestled to make that choice, I entered into a phase that would become famously known in my family as “Simone’s bratty period.” Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Surinam, also known as Dutch Guyana, was both beautiful and disturbing to Maria. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Trent and I had known each other since kindergarten. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Astronomers have known for centuries that the earth takes twenty-four hours to complete one full rotation—one day. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

A known enemy is less dangerous, less able to surprise. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“He was my friend first. We go to Hebrew school together. Maddy’s only known him a few weeks. Besides, she’s not that bad.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

But over time, I had come to miss the familiarity and sense of security I had known back in Piatra Neamț. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

“Yes. A child too young to go to school. Even a baby. Ever known that?” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

He could not stand his home, his job, the town itself—he could not endure, day in, day out, facing the scenes and the people he had known all his life. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

The mighty Thurgood Marshall was forced to join us in a greasy joint that served wilted lettuce on overcooked hamburgers in the shabby section of our neighborhood known as Ninth Street. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was as though we had known one another for a long time, and had met again after a lapse of years. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

The Greenlanders’ last known contact with Europeans came in 1410 with an Icelandic ship that arrived after being blown off course. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I wish I’d known how badly they want to kill you.” The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

“This home, your brothers, are all you have known so far, but when you have your own home and your own children you will not miss these....” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had known the day was coming, but the regret I saw in Maa’s eyes made me tremble. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

With an incising awl, he inscribed the leather-hard clay—a simple chrysanthemum design, far cruder than much of the elaborate incision work for which the potters of Ch’ulp’o were known. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

“I had known,” Truman later said, “something that was unusually important was brewing in our war plants.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the time he had had enough of the sea, he would already have known other cities, other women, and other chances to be happy. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

How could he have known that, she wondered. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

She clenched the blanket in her fists, and sighed, and breathed his name, and if she hadn’t said it out loud, he wouldn’t have known what to call himself, because everything was her. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Segregation was the only world they had known. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

“They tell many stories of the man. I regret not having known him.” The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I should have known then that it wasn’t the time, his mood was off. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps not for many weeks, or perhaps they had known from the first day they were back. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Then I spotted a wine for twenty-five bucks, an awful lot for a bottle from an area not generally known for its wines. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

As long as I had known him he was hip to the whole drug scene. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

Whatever it was, it registered not in his eyes but in his feelings, and was most clearly known to him by its absence in the company of anyone but her. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

“It is a circumstance which Darcy could not wish to be generally known, because if it were to get round to the lady’s family, it would be an unpleasant thing.” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

For this was the odd thing — all his life, he’d known he would get married, and yet he’d never stopped to consider what it would be like once he was. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Of course I should’ve known that, what with the plagues killing off hundreds of people every year. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

I’d also known of at least another dozen showdowns in which one took the Dead On Arrival ride to the morgue, and the other went to prison for manslaughter or the electric chair for murder. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was adopted at birth—had never known her birth parents—and remembers the pain of being told by her adoptive parents that she was “illegitimate.” Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

She had wanted a sisterly smile that said I’ve known you all my life. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

There was a complete collapse, ending the life we had known in Kraków. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

Because if he had chosen today, Hooper would have known it, it was the only chance there had been for weeks. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

But right now, I think I need to remind her how long we’ve known each other. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Many of the affected children, known as the “Lost Generation,” never made up the missing grades of education. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

The boy’s face is obscured, so his identity cannot be known for sure. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Recently, it’s like the brother I’ve known my entire life has vanished, and a total stranger—one with better hygiene—has moved into his place. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Would Kimki ever reach this far country about which nothing was known? Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

The borderlands—as this region was known—were remote and lawless territories that had been fought over for hundreds of years. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

If his coats were all that hung in the closet and he'd known his lungs were black and he drank his whiskey without suspicion. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

To give their false ginger the necessary tang they had introduced a chemical known as triorthocresyl phosphate. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Married and in her early forties, Rosa Parks was widely known as an activist through her work with the Montgomery NAACP. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

“You, too. I mean, without you, how would I have ever known how fat I was?” Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

When worn as a set, the two swords were called daisho, and this quickly became the nickname by which the two of them were known. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Field hands who never set foot in the main house, and they had known. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

But I had never heard anyone announce to their twenty-four-year-old daughter, as my mother had the week before, that the father she’d previously been told had abandoned her hadn’t even known that she existed. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

This of course is far from the known truth. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

When a man had appeared silhouetted in the door to the caravan, she hadn’t even known to run. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

If he had only known it, the hot dogs, huckleberry pie, strawberry pop and worms squirming on the hook weren’t doing them much good. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You—you were just a child, Frankie. You couldn’t have known.” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

I had known the day was coming, but I had tried not to think about it because it made me sad. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

The head of the laundry was a woman named Amelia who’d known the Valentines in Virginia and followed two years later. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

She remembered her mother—not her before-mother, but the one she had always known. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

I own that such is not known; but that indeed, the scholars of the College believed the disease was caused by the inhalation of truculent animalcula. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

It had taken Nina less than an hour to discover that most of the prison wagons passed by a roadhouse known as the Warden’s Waystation on the route to the Ice Court. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Flowers had known that I would be embarrassed and that was even worse. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looked at me keenly, realizing that Jordan and I must have known all along. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

Men had been known to fall into empty holds before, crack their heads, and pass out even in calm weather. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

He wondered how Aioses had known that her brothers were in trouble. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had known Manny practically her whole life—they all had—and now he was just a heap of lifeless flesh and bones slumped in a barber’s chair. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

She would be ten on her next name day, and she was the saddest child that Maester Cressen had ever known. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Little is known about the medical history of his childhood, but his attendants must have noticed something amiss: that the young prince bruised all too easily, or that his nosebleeds were often unstoppable. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

It was time to execute their plan: visit all the known locations of the Bayahíbe rose, in hopes that one might point them to the Nightbeast. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

She thought of the Negroes she’d known as a child—well-fed and happy slaves, with no worries about finding employment. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

If I had known I was going to be running a half marathon all around the hospital, I might’ve bothered to bring my portable oxygen. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

Those two looked as if they'd known each other for years by now. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

And we were friends now, somehow — as she must have known we would be all along. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

She knew what was waiting for her in the mailbox, she just knew it, the same way she had known from the beginning that Peach was not hers to keep. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

The two phenomena are known to each other. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

But the more afraid he had become, the more he had known he would have to jump in. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

Interestingly, oil company geologists had known for years that if you wanted to find oil you had to allow for precisely the sort of surface movements that were implied by plate tectonics. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Sammy’s known around Small’s—around Harlem, really—for the women he can get for a fellow. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe he’d always known it would be impossible to find Blink. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Bennie had spent every year of the decade that Sierra had known her obsessed with one branch of the natural sciences or another. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

During the month that he had known her the nature of his desire for her had changed. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

This expansion of the known world was carefully recorded by cartographers, and it brought about the first great triumph of experience over philosophical theory. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The Islands have a long and complex cultural history, but are most known for their rich African-American heritage as white plantation owners left the islands in the 19th century leaving their slaves behind. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

I should’ve known better than to talk to him alone, but he caught me in a crowd and managed to bully me, loudly, into coming into his office. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Hazel’s anxiety and the reason for it were soon known to all the rabbits and there was not one who did not realize what they were up against. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Guenever, and this might have been surprising to a person who had known her in her days of tempest looked sweet and pretty. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were fifteen years old and they had known so long that they were sons of a wealthy man that the feeling was hard to lose. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The hill that the monument was on was known as Last Stand Hill. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

The fact is that what scientists call zoonotic disease was little known in the Americas. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Well, it’s about time somebody recognizes what we’ve always known,” my dad told Mrs. Shannon. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

But had we known, maybe we would have made a real back-up plan. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

“So you’ve known Denna for a while,” I prompted as he poured each of us a glass of pale red wine. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“For some time, we had known that we were about to unlock a giant,” remembered Eugene Wigner. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the Sundarbans they have been known to swim five miles in open, choppy waters. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I have known it for a long time.” The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

“Miss Riley—” I realized suddenly that I loved her, that I had never known and never would know anyone as good as she. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

The lightweight hydrogen gas should, because of Titan’s low gravity, rapidly escape to space by a violent process known as “blowoff,” which should carry the methane and other atmospheric constituents with it. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s weird how it’s easier to trust Arthur than it is to trust people I’ve known way longer. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

Ned had known their faces as well as he knew his own once, but the years leech at a man's memories, even those he has vowed never to forget. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

We’ve known each other since grade school, but it was last year at the homecoming bonfire that we had our first kiss. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

They treated me in a happy, offhand manner which implied I’d known them much longer than I had. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

So Andrea had known too and had probably been told not to tell. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s odd, but I didn’t hear a single one of the potato pickers say “By gar,” and they must have seen the pictures and known what is right. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

The monkeys had been shipped by boat to Ferlite Farms, where they were jammed together in large cages known as gang cages, in which the male monkeys often fought and bloodied and killed one another. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

After all those years, I should’ve known that number by heart. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Cepheids are quite rare, but at least one of them is well known to most of us. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

“I like you as much as any girl I’ve ever known. But, of course, I have no time for girls.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If I had known this when I was in the camps,” Jack said sadly, “why would I have struggled so hard to live?” Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

The secrecy was required because if it were known there would be trouble among the young men in the neighborhood. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

She must not have known that I’m a coconut who doesn’t even eat cilantro. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

Hatfield was also known for its dairy farms, which I much preferred. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

I had known it all along, that it was a good-bye party, but now I felt the truth sink down into my stomach like a pile of coal. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He drew Greece like a mis-shapen hourglass - a large dangly blob for the northern mainland, then another blob below it, almost as large - the big chunk of land known as the Peloponnese. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

If Eleanor would have known then what was about to happen, she would have run back to tell Ben good-bye. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

The two men embraced as if they had known each other for years. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

There was a nun at the Yambuku Hospital who is known today as Sister M. E. She became gravely ill with I’epidemie, or “the epidemic,” as they had begun to call it. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Club Ebony in New York City was a shining example of the biracially attended speakeasies that came to be known as “black and tans.” 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

I would like to add a third, to wit, the rapid and direct approach of a known killer. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

A piece of paper large enough to have all the zeroes in a googolplex written out explicitly could not be stuffed into the known universe. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

It would be like trying not to scratch the most powerful itch anyone had ever known. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

“You're right. I arrived here close to seven years ago. But I had known you long before then. Back in the community where you had grown up.” Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I’m starting to think about what Daddy would say if he knew that I was hanging out in a house where a known drug dealer lives. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

“They didn’t know Jesse; they wouldn’t have known what to look for.” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Foege was one of the people responsible for the eradication of smallpox in the world and was known to favor unconventional solutions to supposedly impossible problems. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

It fell upon his ears like the echo of all the joys he had ever known. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Sergio took the phone, and even though he had known the number all his life, he repeated it to himself with every step he took. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

“What you do not smell is called iocane powder. It is odorless, tasteless and dissolves immediately in any kind of liquid. It also happens to be the deadliest poison known to man.” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

The Icelanders were also known for their strength, fairness, and stubbornness. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Howard asked him how he could possibly have known so much. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Nay, dear Emma, now I must take his part; for though he has been wrong in this instance, I have known him long enough to answer for his having many, very many, good qualities; and—” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

Also known as the rallying cry of half of Aru’s classmates. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

He had known Gilly would be hard, but he had assumed Sam would be glad to trade the dangers of the Wall for the warmth of Oldtown. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“I’m befriending a criminal, and pushing away people I’ve known my entire life.” Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Zoe had known all along that the Oracle’s prophecy was about her: she would die by a parent’s hand. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

Hazel hadn’t known him very long, but she understood, even shared, his sadness. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“Ms. Ford, Robert and his buddy are well known at this station. They’re both bad actors.” Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

My ancestor, and this is the inheritance she passed to me: freedom from the factions, and the knowledge that my Divergent identity is more important than I could have known. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

We’re known all over the city for being one of the best theater ensembles for teens, and we put plays on every year, inviting the whole community. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z

It’s the same town I’ve known for thirteen years, but I’m a stranger in a strange land. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

With him was a man who was known only as Z. Mr. Trepid thought of Z as a shiftless man, slipping in and out of town like a slithery possum. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

He is the best person I have ever known. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

I hadn’t even known I was in the running. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Shelly said, “I’ve known Paine since back when he and Dusty used to fish charters out of Ted’s. He was always a gentleman—your daddy, 1 mean, not Dusty.” Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

It is about the most stupid habit known to man. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

And if that much money was involved, he certainly would have planned more thoroughly and known when the laboratory’s next shipment of plague medicine would arrive. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

They let it be known that if their new union’s leaders were disciplined they would go out on strike. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

He must have known how they mocked him. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Of course, Ralph had to investigate and found his back stuck to something he had not known about—Scotch tape. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

Otherwise we would not even have known that we were in trouble. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mark had known some druggies in his life, but those were the worst. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

As we pulled away from Central High, I looked back to see students gathered on the school lawn, staring at us as though they were watching a parade they hadn’t known was coming their way. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had not known how it would be to hold a dead thing. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

“I’m the Director of an organization known to a select few as the Guard.” The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

She had known all along, when she criticized the mink jacket, when she belittled his freckles and complained about his drinking habits. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even before the sun made itself known, the animals and owls departed the safety of my limbs. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“That name is the only thing that saved you from being shot down on our doorstep. I wanted to see what fool would dare to use it. I should have known it would be you.” Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Poor Pim, I might have known what the effect of such an epistle would be. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Proteins were known to carry out the bulk of functions in the cell. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

The whites I’d known loved to rub shoulders publicly with black folks in the after-hours clubs and speakeasies. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

If a Soviet agent ever needed to reach Fuchs, secret passwords had been arranged by which the agent could make himself known to Heineman. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

If Ares had known about Henry’s plot, Henry would be flying somewhere right now and Gregor would be... Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

He had known her for six years and he had not known her. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

The hairs on the back of my neck stood up as I remembered something Grandpa Portman had said about a boy he’d known here in the children’s home—a boy with bees living inside him. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

When word got out that Guiteau was originally from Chicago, reporters in that city dug into his past, interviewing those who had known him. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

I should have known, then, that he would gladly trade thousands of GD memories—lives—for control of the experiments. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Eventually two other Cavendish scientists invented a more powerful proton-beam device, while in California Ernest Lawrence at Berkeley produced his famous and impressive cyclotron, or atom smasher, as such devices were long excitingly known. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Milton’s throat went dry; a spasm of anxiety known to all Depression babies gripped his body; and in the next second he was jumping out of the car again, running back to the platform. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Powers and his fellow test pilots trained for months at a secret facility in a remote part of the Nevada desert known as Area 51, learning to control the powerful experimental planes. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

What was known for certain was there for all to see: several circular round scars on his right forearm. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But they have been known to, for all your wide experience, Thlayli. Anyway, why did you go near it?” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Today, the fight goes on, and at the forefront of this struggle is a movement known as Black Lives Matter. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

I liked that Margot had decided, reflecting on the small collection of times she had “known” me, that I would have been appealing to my grandfather. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

The city is known for its beauty—the glistening Lake Tanganyika, the winding Kalimabenge River—and also for its conflicts. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

It was the saddest-looking flag I’d ever seen, standing in the corner, its stars and stripes drooping down as if they had never known a proud moment. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sitting there in the half-darkness, Ben felt cheapened, irreparably damaged by this girl he had known most of his life. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

What's more, Adams let it be known that he was considering either Jefferson or Madison to head the delegation—in effect, including the leadership of the Republican party in the shaping of foreign policy. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

If she had known about the murderous events of the evening, she most likely would not have opened the door. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the hoarse shouting and the heedless screaming of the women there was a mounting violence, and a terror she had never known before closed over Kit’s mind like fog. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

She only knew that the past ten days since the dame school had begun had been the pleasantest she had known in Connecticut. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

The Robert he had known would not have, but the Robert he had known had never been so practiced at shutting his eyes to things he did not wish to see. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Now as the companions sat or walked together they spoke of Gandalf, and all that each had known and seen of him came clear before their minds. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

The Virgo cluster is already the richest collection of galaxies known, replete with spirals and ellipticals and irregulars, a jewel box in the sky. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Prohibition-era gangsters also became known for the cars they drove or were driven in. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Uric the Oddball is known to have slept in a room containing no fewer than fifty pet Augureys. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

But, if he had only known it, bad as things seemed the worst was over. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Likewise opera, or dramma per musica as it was known in its first, Italian century, spread from its power base in Venice to Naples and Rome, and thence north into Germany. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

And now she had been here in his graveyard, and he had not known her... The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

There he found the remaining strength of his people already assembled; for as soon as his coming was known captains rode to meet him at the ford, bearing messages from Gandalf. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

They may not have known exactly what he meant by “creepy,” but it was pretty clear it was an insult. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I had no idea, and I wouldn’t have mentioned it if I’d known.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Even in the grocery store, surrounded in one aisle by more kinds of food than will ever be known in a Congolese lifetime, there was nothing on the air but a vague, disinfected emptiness. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now, I had much more than before, but I felt most keenly the things I didn’t have, especially the parents I’d never known and the brother I did not yet know. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Tony and I have known each other for years, working on projects and joking around after class. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

And yet none of these men was well known, or at least I'd never seen their faces in the newspapers. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Again, if you’ve known him for a while, you kind of already knew.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

For Sauron knows,” said he, “that one of these was known to you on a time.” The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

But I had never known the tree to look so beautiful or smell so nice. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

It was known as Barbie and measured just under a foot tall. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

The smallest living things known, the viroids, are composed of less than 10,000 atoms. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

To my eye, it seemed carefully made: a warp of fine cotton threads, ten or fifteen to the inch, crossed at half-inch intervals by paired weft threads in a basket-like pattern known as “weft-twining.” 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

When her hands hunted out these beautiful new sounds it was the best feeling she had ever known. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

For the first twelve years of the Alexandriaville seventh graders’ lives, school media centers were the only libraries they had ever known. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

He is as intelligent and inquisitive as any student I’ve ever known. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

We’ve always known, he would think; what took you so long? Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Even Hagrid had never known what was in the Chamber of Secrets. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

By the time she returns, we’re already sitting in the classroom, sweating with the rest of the class, though no one else will have known it was from running. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The people had known, with the simple certainty of the world they saw, how everything should be. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

I have known many slick, sharp-looking hustlers, who would have you think they had an interest in Wall Street; privately, they would get someone else to read a letter if they received one. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

John Faulkner, of the Lick Observatory in California, has suggested an interpretation of these remarks which flies in the face of the Newton legend, but closely matches Newton’s known character. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

It had long been known that the Earth radiated appreciable amounts of heat–that was apparent to anyone who went down a coal mine–but there wasn’t any way of estimating the rate of dissipation. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

“Everybody around you starts dying! Heart attacks! Strokes! Cancer! People you’ve known your whole life are just gone! People you love! Can you imagine how painful that is?” The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

Here, in this clean and beautiful place, among people I had always known, I wasn’t sure where I fit. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

He will stop first in Arles, a town known for its warmth, beauty, and beautiful women. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

One, represented by DDT, is known as the “chlorinated hydrocarbons.” Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

But how could he have known she’d turn into this beautiful thing with the hot body and the dazzling eyes? The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

“Once this vow to my father is fulfilled,” he said, “I will honor you. We will be known as husband and wife and you, Ophelia, will be my queen.” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Bod had never seen Silas’s bag before, he had not even known that Silas had a bag, but it was the sort of bag that could only have belonged to Silas. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

“Never mind: I came here to inquire, not to confess. Is it known that Mr. Rochester is to be married?” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

With our free hands we gripped each other’s fingers like we’d known each other a lot longer than two days. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

At this point, it wouldn’t be smart to go back to the Braddock, either, where I’m so well known. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

She hadn’t even known if it was a boy or a girl; it was nothing to her. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

He had never known it to be so comfortable, he thought. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

“Because you know what’s really messed up? That you didn’t already know I wouldn’t do that to you. You should’ve known better.” A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

How many other names and promises had they known and made? Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

“You would never have known it rained every day,” answered Dad, shaking his head. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

I walked at the end of the procession, as was customary, and could see that the last porter in the file, a slight jokester inmate known as Beezle, was barely making it. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The trouble comes from comparison, you see. If I say ‘she was dark-haired,’ you might think, ‘I’ve known dark-haired women, some of them lovely.’ The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

What is known is the truth about the barbaric practice of lynching has, in many ways, been suppressed and that this form of racial torture and murder left deep scars that remain with us today. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

The two others were Reno, where it was thought that Smith’s father lived, and San Francisco, the home of Smith’s sister, who shall here be known as Mrs. Frederic Johnson. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was known around the entire corps as the most squared away, the most impressive company. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Long before going into battle, wed known wed have to see and even touch the dead. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

So many people we had known in Pinyudu were gone, shot down there or carried away by crocodiles or the river. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Miss Marva Hendrix must have known Pa almost as well as I did. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

As we walk, we pass sculpted tributes of wood and copper to a priest from Auschwitz, and also St. Therese of Lisieux, who was known as “The Little Flower of Jesus.” All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I thought of the youthful almost hysterical excitement and conceit with which I had gone into this marriage, imagining I would bring happiness to Maxim, who had known much greater happiness before. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps if they had known the true meaning of the caller’s presence, the reception tendered him would have been less gracious, more guarded. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I finally came out of it, he looked at me like I was a different person from the little girl he’d known before. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

He realized that Goober wasn’t the cheerful, happy-go-lucky kid he’d known when school first started. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

That makes us all laugh, even Pouncey, who isn’t known for his sense of humor. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

A talented and competitive athlete in school, known as Elbows to those who played basketball with him, he ran the Farmer household with a strict hand. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

“I bet it was just a drunken brawl,” Dorian said, though he had been in plenty of brawls himself and had never known anyone to go about removing someone’s innards. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Even if I had known this at that time, it would have done me no good, for they were but roots in the earth. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Unless you counted Cookie, the nurse he’d known when he was hospitalized as a result of his motorcycle accident. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Of course,” I replied; and “such is often done by men of business, who do not like the whole of their affairs to be known by any one person.” Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

The selkie stories of seal creatures were well known, oft told, and in all of them there was a shed skin. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The worst thing about him is that since kindergarten he’s known exactly who he is. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

‘Bah ... these midwives! Any doctor in Boston would have known ... You see, the thumb is pulled about like that, not because of any basic injury, but by scar tissues.’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

But you need money, Italians are not known for giving away bananas especially to the McCourts who owe them money already for groceries. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

All nine of us had been friends prior to our adventure together, and had known one another since elementary school. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He had known his sort in King’s Landing—fawning to his superiors, harsh to his inferiors, as blind as he was boastful and too proud by half. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

She hadn’t done that in all the years I’d known her. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The Weinberg-Salam theory exhibits a property known as spontaneous symmetry breaking. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the writers I have in mind are the purists—also known as sticklers, pedants, peevers, snobs, snoots, nit- pickers, traditionalists, language police, usage nannies, grammar Nazis, and the Gotcha! The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

What a part of me had known all along. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

His position was similar to adult prisoners known as jagubbanjang, or crew managers. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

In fact, very little is known about the fate of former welfare recipients because the 1996 welfare reform legislation blithely failed to include any provision for monitoring their postwelfare economic condition. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had kind of known, but it was helpful to hear it direct from her own mouth. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

It is a whole pattern of life, little known to the settled people along the routes of the great trucks. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mandarax had been known to garble or misinterpret quest instructions and cues, which could easily lead to fatal mistakes. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

I said, and recognized at once that I was on the brink of a dangerous condition known as retail burnout. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

But even as a little kid Jason had known it wasn’t all right. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

What is less known is that at the close of the Southern African conflict, this same general had been discreetly retired, and he had then entered business, dealing in shipments from Southern Africa. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

Behind it are printout machines, row on row of them; these machines are known as Holy Rollers, but only among us, it’s a disrespectful nickname. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bear—in the short time I had known him—was a thousandfold more a faithful father to me. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

I am very fond of this sour milk, which is known as amctsi among the Xhosa people and is greatly prized as a healthy and nourishing food. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Vespucci’s claim was that he had encountered a vast new landmass which formed no part of the previously known world—he had found a New World. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

These drug interdiction programs were the brainchild of the DEA, part of the federally funded program known as Operation Pipeline. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

I must have known this theoretically or at least heard it stated, but now for the first time the lesson takes hold. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lelia couldn’t have known where I stayed all those nights, and because she never once asked, I felt I was allowed to let her stew in her imagination. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lkossa’s warriors, the Sons of the Six, weren’t known for their compassion. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

They had never known one moment’s happiness together. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

This was true at the time of Urey’s writing: of the known radioisotopes, carbon-11 had a half-life of only twenty-one minutes; nitrogen-13, only ten; and oxygen-15, only two. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

If I’d known about it then, I would have sicked the FBI on him. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had not known that Amaka even thought of me, even knew what I wanted, even knew that I wanted. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Who has not known a journey to be over and dead before the traveler returns? Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

We must make wider use of alternative methods that are now known, and we must devote our ingenuity and resources to developing others. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

“Are you also known as the father of modern medicine?” Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

He discovered so many elements not so much because he was serially astute as because he developed an ingenious technique of applying electricity to a molten substance–electrolysis, as it is known. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

I flew to Myrtle Beach and found her as I had always known her: fully in control and careful that I not be inconvenienced by my father, even in death. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Kamen staggered down the stairway in a daze and made a beeline for Ruben’s lab, located in a derelict old annex to the chemistry building known as the Rat House. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

There is Justin’s bike, also known as Blue Thunder, with a plastic pretzel jar attached to the handlebars. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Finally, in 1926, Heisenberg came up with a celebrated compromise, producing a new discipline that came to be known as quantum mechanics. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Plus, I was sure that if something was wrong with Ben, the doctors at the hospital would have known it by then. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

He had walked eighty miles in four days through the hottest weather he had ever known and he had gone down with sunstroke. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Ah! sir—but a thoughtless young person will sometimes step behind a window-curtain, and throw up a sash, without its being suspected. I have often known it done myself.” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

It was a lesson I knew I needed to absorb more fully, because I wanted to be known as a good person, not just a good athlete. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Her name was Mrs. Carpenter, and she’d known him ever since he was allowed to go out in the canoe on his own. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

He was well known for his years in Congress and his dedication to the Republican Party. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Well, if you want to keep all that safe, tell us all you know about the person named Cecile Johnson, also known as your mother.’ One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then perhaps there was someone who had known me since birth. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

First there was Rivera, known also as Bay watch. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had known so many versions of him, she carried all of them with her. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Poor boy, he’s never known how it feels to make someone else happy, and I’m afraid I can’t teach him. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

As we drive, Rose chatters with my parents and Mrs. V like she’s known them all her life. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

Judges were known to say to citizens, “You vote for me, and I will see that you get a good guardianship.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

One of the places I regularly visited with these junior officers was known as the “gardens,” a series of smallholdings on the edge of the prison grounds where crops were grown for the prison’s kitchen. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Have you ever known me to 'kid,' sir?" The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Maybe he would have made a different choice if he’d known about me.” Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Right then I knew they may have known a lot about Bodega but they had very little on him. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Hooper had known, from the very first moment he had looked into Fielding's face, that it would all be easy, that he would always be able to make him afraid. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

If he’d known about flaps or how to use them, he wouldn’t have been going half the speed when he hit the water. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

Leavitt worked at the Harvard College Observatory as a computer, as they were known. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

They had been selected the same year, both Twelves at the same time, and so she had known Elissa through her school years. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

It was enough to blow the Party to atoms, if in some way it could have been published to the world and its significance made known. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

For the most part this pollution is unseen and invisible, making its presence known when hundreds or thousands of fish die, but more often never detected at all. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Frisby slept well and soundly, the day just finished having been the longest and hardest she had ever known. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

With radiocarbon, these numbers, these ancient ages, could be known, and with ever-increasing accuracy. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

We hadn’t even known we would be in this particular country until just before we got on the plane. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

That's still probably better than never having known one of your parents. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

King’s Landing, Riverrun, Pyke, and the Iron Islands, all the Seven Kingdoms, every place that he had ever known, every place that he had ever read about or dreamed of, all gone. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

McKinley and its satellites surrender to the low Kantishna plain, a series of lesser ridges, known as the Outer Range, sprawls across the flats like a rumpled blanket on an unmade bed. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Except, of course, she had known my name. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

The name of the other, the younger brother, the father, his name is not known. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

He knew more about Kevin than about almost anyone else in his life, but apparently he hadn’t known nearly as much as he thought he had. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

There are normally twelve girls in the house, counting the old ones, a Greek cook, and a man who is known as a watchman but who undertakes all manner of delicate and dangerous tasks. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

She smiled at that; Mark had known she would. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

For those of us who were born here, America is literally the only home we’ve ever known. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

She would have heard my voice, known about my tears. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

They have never known a person who has been to Calcutta. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Because, even if she had known it, it would have made no difference to her. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had known it would be, and before he moved, he pulled on the jersey he had bought, then chalked a large X on the wall. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

Soon this family was known throughout that part of the country for their good pumpkins. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

This was the genesis of what came to be known as New Coke. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

From 22,000 feet to 25,000 feet the standard route ascends a sheer, treacherous ice slope known as the Lhotse Face. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

The tall one looked like a Navajo guy from Fort Defiance that Tayo had known at Indian School. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Kimberley fastened upon her the look that was well known in his classroom. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

But five minutes after acknowledging his wasted potential, Colin Singleton was behind the wheel of his lengthy gray Oldsmobile known as Satan's Hearse. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

For the first time since Harry had known him, Fred seemed to be lost for words. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Then she gave a little nod, as if she had known. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

He must have known for quite some time. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

And when she said it, she looked like I really should’ve known that. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

At the same time, the master quarryman was sent to supervise fifty apprentice stone cutters and two hundred and fifty laborers who would work in the Somme valley, an area known for its limestone. Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction 1973-09-19T00:00:00Z

He also became known as the most assiduous and creative hunter of new elements in history, credited with the discovery or codiscovery of twelve transuranics. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

The epidemics often were not even known to Europeans, still less deliberately caused by them. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

He loved her and would not betray her; but that was only a fact, known as he knew the rules of arithmetic. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

But I had known Finny in an impersonal dormitory, a gym, a playing field. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

I asked about his childhood, because the fact is that I had not known Prince all that well. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

She has always known how to space her pauses. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Reverend Hunt is a tall, quiet man with broad shoulders and more patience than anyone I have ever known. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

“Did you hear?”—until most souls in town were swearing they had known long ago that Mr. Stonecrop was a scoundrel, and wasn’t it too bad about the Hurds? Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

It is known that the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation wanted to interview Bobby for a documentary: He demanded $5,000 just to discuss it over the phone, with no promises of anything else. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I would’ve known if there was a cave here; I was sure of it It was like the ground had opened up and swallowed us. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

The blind man said that he had first known of it when he was a newcomer to Village, still an invalid with wounds to be tended. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

“Oh my child, don’t you know that was just to get sympathy up in the East? That’s the oldest trick known to mankind. You know Kaiser Bill prayed to God every night of his life.” Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t have known it in the moment, but I was committing what would be deemed an epic faux pas. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

No one slept, not even DroopeyC Dale, an oarsman who had been known to nap between strokes. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I had already known, but now I knew. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

She would certainly have known if he had two dollars to leave anybody. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

He said once that I was the best person he’d ever known. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

And yet Chamberlain was ashamed; he had not known it was there. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

And of course it is true that a discovery often involves a recognition of the significance of something already known. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

But on Sunday morning—early—my family was at Saint Andrew Presbyterian Church listening to Pastor McClellan, who was old enough to have known Moses. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

It was a small bungalow in a run-down part of the city that Rowan hadn’t even known existed. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

I’d known as soon as I punched off the vault that I was soaring too far out and wasn’t going to stick the landing. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

During the last stage of the Paleolithic, which began about 35,000 years ago, we meet the earliest works of art known to us. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He’s eleven. Have you ever known a boy his age who talks the way he does? A great deal of it comes from living in such an enlightened atmosphere.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

We haven’t known each other long, but I feel like we have. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

He must not of known I was still there. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

One of its earliest battles took place in 1925, with what became known as the Scopes Trial. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

The Director stopped by to wish us all well, but mainly, I think, to make his presence known. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

I was trying to think of another one when we all three simultaneously saw the human-shaped container of anabolic steroids known as Chuck Parson walking toward us with some intent. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

Edward Brodas was known as the Master to his Negro slaves. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was waiting not only for the irons to heat but also for a brutal woman black as soot known to carry a knife. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And furthermore,” continued the proclamation, “The boy named Milo,” “The dog known as Tock,” “And the insect hereinafter referred to as the Humbug,” “Are hereby declared to be,” “Heroes of the realm.” The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

So it would feel to him that he had always known her name, and that she had always known his, that somehow, he and Pearl had known each other always. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Neither one of us could have known what lay ahead. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

I might be nuts by the time we arrive to Sagan, but I’ll be the best kind of crazy storyteller known to humanity. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Jeffrey has known from an early age that the worst possible thing he can do to me is to touch my drum stuff. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

As a Ph.D. student, he’d used HeLa to help develop something called fluorescence in situ hybridization, otherwise known as FISH, a technique for painting chromosomes with multicolored fluorescent dyes that shine bright under ultraviolet light. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

But if he hadn’t known it then, Kate persisted, how did he know it now? The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Twig’s voice broke, and I realized she was different from the Twig I had always known. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Ulbrickson, a former stroke oar—one of the best Washington had ever known—was tall, well built, and notably handsome. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The lynching of Charley, who was known by Walter's family, was believed to have been prompted by an interracial romance. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

For more than 30 years, these women weren't known as anything other than who they were. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

But be it known that I have now sworn him to my service, and he shall be known as Peregrin son of Paladin and taught the lesser pass-words. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Would her brother have been any wiser, had he known that the vengeance he had prayed for was so close at hand? A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The following fortnight saw the best Quidditch practices Harry had known as Captain. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

The priest’s refusal meant the church was taking its stand and that the evil ways of the Trementinas were known to all. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The only time I have known him to show impatience is when the postman lags, for it means we must wait another day before the arrival of our English mail. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

The starship punched out into the dark, punched through the sky, punched out past West Baltimore, punched out past The Mecca, past New York, past any language and every spectrum known to me. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Burt introduced me to an economics professor at the faculty cafeteria, one well known for his work on the economic factors affecting interest rates. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

This chasm makes itself known to us in all kinds of ways. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Thompson was known for her criticism of Adolf Hitler, and she was expelled from Nazi Germany in 1934 because of her reporting. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

Like most of his fellow Virginians, he wanted it known that he preferred an early end to the slave trade and regarded the institution of slavery “a deep-rooted abuse.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

The annals of medicine are full of accounts of diseases that sound like no disease known today, but that once caused terrifying epidemics and then disappeared as mysteriously as they had come. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes it involves giving up everything you have ever known, or everyone you have ever loved, for the sake of something greater. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

It is the story of the robin, the bird known to everyone. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

If she had known her cousin’s secret, would she have teased her at dinner? Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

If the stories were true, how these calls were arranged, how long they lasted, and who made them aren’t known. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

By the time players reach their midteens, the very best of the best have been channeled into an elite league known as Major Junior A, which is the top of the pyramid. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

A hundred dollars would give me, temporarily, more freedom of movement than I had ever known in my life. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

By i960, every species of wild mammal known to inhabit the area had suffered losses. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

The weakness of surrender in him melted into an anger such as he had never known in his life before. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

He hadn’t known until the moment he fired that he was capable of shooting a woman. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

“You’ve helped us apprehend three associates of the criminal known as Hatchet.” The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

She had not known until this year that she was different from everyone else. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

We’re still cheering inside, but we’re also thinking about six million lives snuffed out by the worst kind of evil the world has ever known. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

She knew perfectly well that she had what was called consumption, would have known even if she was not reminded by a hard, exhausting cough. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

When I ask a teammate why the rule against cursing in houses, she says that owners have been known to leave tape recorders going while we work. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

And maybe they had always known this day would come, but the only life—the only sanity—had been in believing it could be held at bay. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

The chance she had been waiting for came in 1994, when she began six months of training for the Euromir 94 spaceflight, also known as the 17th main mission. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

Had Kaede known this, she would have told them that she had not acted alone, that both Taisin and Con had helped her. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

And it’s right then that I realize that when people say you can’t miss something you’ve never known...Well, that simply isn’t true. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

Luke had told her similar stories, but she had not known whether to believe him. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

It’s her crazy ultimate paella with every shellfish known to man in it. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

I could feel them both looking at me, waiting for me to burst into tears or something, as if I hadn’t known all along that it would go precisely like this. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

But I was still filled with disappointment about the letter’s not being to Gideon and curiosity about Ned and Jinx and the spy known as the Rattler. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Farther up the bay, on the dead-water east arm known as Little House Cove, the Westinghouse family had built a Newport-style mansion on thirty acres of Douglas fir trees. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

They settled near present-day Chattanooga, Tennessee, near the Chickamauga Creek, and came to be known as the Chickamaugas. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

When Brekker had picked the lock on his prison cell door, Rollins hadn’t known if he was about to be rescued or assassinated. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

He was well known by sight to all the warren, for his fur was entirely gray, with patches of near-white that now caught the moonlight as he sat scratching himself without speaking. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

And he was lucky that the kid didn’t feel like talking, because despite the complete weirdness of everything that had happened within Thomas’s known reach of memory, he felt calm again. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

The smell of steel and forge wafts past, ever-present in a city known solely for its soldiers and weaponry. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

But even with radiometric dating, as decay measurements became known, it would be decades before we got within a billion years or so of Earth’s actual age. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

His heart became a deer’s heart and he who had never known fear before was afraid and fled. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because of that, he and I had never talked much; I had not known my brother. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The conflict is now known as the Battle of Philippi. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

Jesus must have known how hard it is to forgive, that was why he put this in. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“He asked to come? Since when has he known what is good for him? Is he not the same person who wanted to make me childless?” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The prosecutor is also free to file more charges against a defendant than can realistically be proven in court, so long as probable cause arguably exists—a practice known as overcharging. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“I usually don’t talk about such things with people I’ve only known a few minutes.” Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had never known his snoring to be so rasping. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The voices, the smell of men’s sweat, of leather, of white sticks, the pain in his leg, the damp, chuckling tunnel at his very ear—he had known them all before. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

At Truman, Wayne is known as a straight arrow, Mr. Responsibility. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

It's a difficult life, tying to live on your own, away from your family and community, in a city known for being cutthroat. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

The answer was there instantly, as if he’d known it all along and his brain was just waiting for him to come looking. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Why did this human tell us who he was? He must have known we could find him.” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

And yet— on the other hand—what was love if it wasn’t the instinct she felt to be on the moss inside the cedar tree with this boy she had always known? Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

It was part of the contentment she had always known. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The news of the battle was confused at first, incoherent, sometimes contradictory, but one thing was certain: here was a clash that roared with a violence and terror such as the country had never known. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is known that the stories reached home. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

West Indian Archie’s known to be the meanest, most powerful numbers runner in the racket. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

How she had always known which to be—a teacher who speaks or a teacher who listens—and I said, “Thank you, Mrs. Miller.” Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Beyond these rudimentary details, nothing was known about the structure or function of DNA and RNA. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

In 1823 when the Old Testament appeared with the verse “And Rebekah arose with her camels”—instead of damsels—it was known as the Camel’s Bible. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

So the forest through which Katz and I passed now was nothing like the forest that was known even to people of my father’s generation, but at least it was a forest. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

I had known the ceremony wouldn’t go well, but I didn’t know what the people would do, now that it was certain there would be no rains. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

It was four months since she had known him but she couldn’t forget. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

If there is no chance that God exists, Pascal’s wager—as it came to be known—makes no sense. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

One half of the chamber’s interior was occupied by a hollow semicircular electrode shaped like the letter D and known forever more as a “dee.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

I fight the urge to sigh, trying instead to channel the fire for which I'm known, beloved, and criticized. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

But they were well known to be Stoors in a large part of their blood, as indeed was shown by the down that many grew on their chins. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Had she ever known a life other than this? Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

In reality very little was known about the proles. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Otherwise we would not even have known that we were in trouble. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Have you known her long?” enquired Michael gently, hoping that if he was particularly polite he would hear something more about the cow. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

There are no ticks, so you don’t have to worry about the health of the cattle, but the area is known for its fierce lions. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

A tension as high as that I had known when the white men had driven me from the job at the optician’s returned to live in me. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Claiborne Paul Ellis, known to everyone as C.P., lived just a weed patch north of the railroad tracks separating white Durham from black. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Then I was stunned when I heard a nationally known Communist announce a decision to dissolve the clubs. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rabi stitched together the new lab’s sponsoring consortium, known as Associated Universities, from nine large Eastern research institutions that would have been hard pressed to compete individually in the multimillion-dollar world of postwar high-energy physics.* Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Still, he told himself hastily, Father could not have known that would happen. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

He was an international grandmaster, known as a colorless player but he was almost scientifically precise, and one of the great defensive competitors of all time. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

They had finished eating the main meal and she was enjoying a turtle-shaped cake filled with sweet and soft red bean paste, a taste not known to her before. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

He ordered a brutal bombardment of North Vietnam, soon known as the Christmas bombing. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

The infamous tangle of narrow streets and minor waterways known as the Barrel was bracketed by two major canals, East Stave and West Stave, each catering to a particular clientele. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

In short, Jefferson must choose between his affection for Adams, which was palpable and widely known, and his leadership of the Republican party. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

And so she hadn’t known the fullness of her power. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Grace hadn’t known Maya that long, but she was pretty sure that Maya would have thrown herself back into school the way lions ran into the Colosseum during Roman times: teeth sharp and claws out. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

I didn’t understand how Rachel could have known about some of that. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

As you get into greatly curved regions of space, bodies’ masses effectively increase, a phenomenon known as mass inflation. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

He was a short wiry man, near fifty and grey of beard but stronger than he seemed, and he had the best night eyes of anyone Jon had ever known. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“I’ve never known despair and I don’t think I ever will,” he wrote to me once. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Blacks, most of whom did not work for Swift, coalesced in the narrow strip of land just east of the immigrants, forming the community that came to be known as the Black Belt. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

From a few incidents in which before and after totals are known with relative certainty, Dobyns calculated that in the first 130 years of contact about 95 percent of the people in the Americas died. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Very little is known about his life, but among the works he left for posterity there was a great summary of astronomy, based on 500 years of Greek astronomical and cosmological thinking. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

Until he grew much older, he was never known to pick up a restaurant check, suffering what a friend called “limp wrist syndrome.” Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“But best known by what it was called in the old tongues.” Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

He had known it, but he had not believed. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I had not known that it was going to happen, or that it could happen. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

But he hadn’t really known that everyone else knew. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Palmer had not known he would get a choice. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

But the septa could not have known that today's court would be anything but the usual tedious business of hearing petitions, settling disputes between rival holdfasts, and adjudicating the placement of boundary stones. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

It later fell out of favor and was known only to some jazz connoisseurs. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

She had known that for a long time, she realized. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Her parents glanced at each other, as if they’d known all along their threat wouldn’t work, and absorbed this news in silence. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

It was so good seeing so many whom I had known so well. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

This continued until ninth grade, when Dad, who’d known Professor Christie from when he’d worked at the music store, asked if she might be willing to offer me private lessons. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

That was more than she’d known when she woke up this morning. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

We had known that beforehand—we could tell by the lateness of the light through the windows, though it was dark when we finally stood on the roof. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

As long as I’ve known him, he’s been this way: extra-vigilant when it comes to matters of money and ethics, holding himself to a higher standard than even what’s dictated by law. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

One group, known as the Neptunists, was convinced that everything on Earth, including seashells in improbably lofty places, could be explained by rising and falling sea levels. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Surprisingly, Cole did not feel the terror he had once known. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

I’ve known that my parents have worries, but I thought they would go away. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

And Mrs. Dalton had not known that he was in the room with her; it would have been the last thing she would have thought of. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

I try to recall other keepers I have known—the humans who cleaned my domain and prepared my food and sometimes kept me company. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

Every telegraph operator has what’s known as an “operator’s fingerprint”—each person taps out the sounds slightly differently. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I considered for a moment that maybe he hadn’t known what he was doing when he’d called me Space Boy. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

He’d always known what to do, always had her back, whether she wanted him to or not. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

I should have known that what my father was doing wouldn't just dangle there in our lives and go unnoticed, or that if I didn’t think about it, it would go away. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

In the meeting, he made a few points: This technology is new, and it’s not fair to assume Reggie should’ve known better, at least in a way that satisfies the standard of criminal negligence. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

“If I’d known I was fighting a chicken,” he said, “I wouldn’t have fought so hard.” Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Of course Charley, even with his imperfect nose, would have known more. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Chess noticed that she didn’t tell her mom that the boys had known her. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

It only says what we’ve always known and never had enough time to worry about, that we haven’t yet learned how to stay human when assembled in masses. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dr. Newman is known for being pleasant, especially to people who give money to our school for things like athletic fields and greenhouses. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Now, the boy must certainly have heard that scream and known that somebody saw something. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You’re known all around town. Every hotel concierge and—’’ “Shut up!” said Moses. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

I have known both of you all your lives, have carried your Daddy in my arms and on my shoulders, kissed and spanked him and watched him learn to walk. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

A “theorem” of heredity existed; it was merely waiting to be known. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

As much as I love Star Wars, I don’t want that to be what I’m known for. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

The child of a barely known glove maker from the Midlands—“born of parents not distinguished from their neighbors”—could grow up to be the most prominent writer of the English language. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

“And,” Chasca added, “the rains came when you asked for them, didn’t they? I have always known that your path was special. Sacred. I’ve told you this before. You didn’t believe me, but I knew.” The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

He wasn’t like the other men she had known. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

“I should have known better, the stars have been doing that lately, making no sense and giving me headaches. I should probably stop trying for a while.” The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

While in Munich, he also designed and laid out the famous park known as the English Garden. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Few spoke English, and the lingua franca was an amalgam of many tongues known as Fanagalo. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Would she even remember me, the awkward boy she had known for a few days so long ago? The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Let it be known that if death befalls me, it is not the result of self-gleaning. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Who could have known, who had done this to me? Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t like we’d known her that well, but still, she was the only motherly person we’d met in the city. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

I have always known that moment of disappearance, and the even uglier truth is that I have long treasured it. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

There is a section known as “Beverly Hills” or “Disneyland” where all of the rich white kids hang out. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

It made me a little nervous about being klutzy—which I have been known to be—and accidentally spilling something. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

The suspect was a physician whose given name was Mudgett but was known more commonly by the alias H. H. Holmes. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

It was known that the President was being besieged to get rid of Grant. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

I speak that sentence as if it’s the one great truth I’ve ever known. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

“I’m sorry. If I’d known about the raid, I never—” “Are you joking?” An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

She thinks I’m lucky I got yanked out of the only place I’d ever known my whole life and sent off to live with people I’d never laid eyes on before? Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Meetings there ceased a few months after that, and in the intervening years it has become known as the Forgotten Chapel.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

The Archives was six stories tall, but I hadn’t known it extended underground as well. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I have known too much of the depths of life already, and I would prefer anything to an anticlimax. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It was quite a different Anne I had known as my daughter. She never really showed this kind of inner feeling,” Otto Frank continued. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

He reminds me that our arrangement is not at all unusual; he’s known many men to take even ten-year-olds as brides. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the close-knit railroad employee community, most had known the man since he was a boy. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

That winter, her team saw some strange intercepts that followed no known pattern. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Grandpa must Have known it, or else why would he have given her The World at the End of the Tunnel? How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

I had not even known how to imagine it. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

The skin bubbles up into a sea of tiny white blisters mixed with red spots known as a maculopapular rash. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In any average white neighbothood bar, you couldn’t imagine a known cat-man thief regularly exposing himself, as one of the most popular people in there. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Having friends from all over the world seemed perfectly normal to Qendrim; it was all he had known since arriving in the United States. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

All this time, he’d known the scent, but he hadn’t known where it came from. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

I'll be spreading the resin pretty thin, but it's literally the strongest adhesive known to man. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

All those years we’d known each other—all the laughs we had, the plans we shared, the trouble we got into—spun by in a blur. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

However, if it’s known somehow that the person chosen is over six feet four inches tall, then the conditional probability that he or she also weighs more than 250 pounds is considerably higher. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

But, according to a newly discovered account, Hale was tricked and seized by Major Robert Rogers, a bold British officer known for his cunning. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Though, on the one hand, he was taken by surprise, on the other he knew, had known, with an ancient instinct, that one day History’s twisted chickens would come home to roost. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Animals that escape go from the known into the unknown—and if there is one thing an animal hates above all else, it is the unknown. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Trina's father, Walter Garnett, was a former boxer whose failed career had turned him into a violent, abusive alcoholic well known to local police for throwing a punch with little provocation. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Suddenly he heard a thundering sound, and he was thrown to the ground by a wind such as he had never known. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were cables from Vietnam he hadn’t seen, minutes from meetings he hadn’t known had taken place. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Sinclair received an exclusive lease to a reserve in Wyoming, which, because of the shape of a sandstone rock near it, was known as Teapot Dome. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

"Your father once told me that the Greatjon was as fearless as any man he had ever known." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

On the other side of the stream, beyond the thick poisonous oleander bushes that were such a danger to tykes, lay the area known as the Fen. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The problem, at root, is with the premise of the show — the essential joke that Big Bird doesn’t want to be known as a big bird. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Wouldn't you have known if it was his handwriting?" We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

It was known, furthermore, that he had voted blue at his father-in-law’s direction. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

I become known as the girl to turn to when you need advice. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

God knows ’tis little trying you’d have for you’re well known for having a kind heart and I was wondering if you could spare a couple of sweets for the little boys here. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

They had known each other since middle school. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

The fact, if known to Quinn, would have annoyed him not the least. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

“Oh, my, so this is what goodness feels like. Who would have known? Oh, my.” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

On his right were most of the choir; on his left the larger boys who had not known each other before the evacuation; before him small children squatted in the grass. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

He had never known until she told him that he had a widow’s peak, which she assured him was a great mark of beauty. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had known lots of girls in grade school, and most of them looked way better than Ma as far as he was concerned. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

The Aleuts also watched our village, otherwise they would not have known about the good fortune which befell us soon after they came. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Holmes and the detectives parted as cheerily as if they had known each other all their lives. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

They had spent the previous four weeks taking it in turns to don the Invisibility Cloak and spy on the official entrance to the Ministry, which Ron, thanks to Mr. Weasley, had known since childhood. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

He’d never known how loud a fire could be; its roar was thunderous. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

But Wes also came to understand that the county life was not exceptionally different from what he had known before. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

If it was possible, if Rufus was in any way still the boy I had known, I would try to keep him from going after Isaac at all. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

It also occurs sporadically in New Jersey, where it was introduced in 1911 on a shipment of spruce trees from Holland, and in Michigan, where its method of entry is not known. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Measured by his influence on the lives of his fellow Americans, that would be his most important role, though his least known. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

No one in the Healing Circle had known how strongly he could swim. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

To have a new home at all is seen as a wonder since, up until a short time ago, we hadn’t even known that District 13 still existed. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

These were such people as he had known as a boy in the Northward Vale of Gont, though poorer even than those. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

Swat was known for its beauty, and tourists came from all over to see its tall mountains, lush green hills, and crystal-clear rivers. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

He must have guessed something about the inner me, since he couldn’t possibly love the outer Anne he’s known so far! The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

The leaders indefatigable activism, unrelenting pressure, and superior organizing skills laid the foundation for what, in the 1960s, would come to be known as the civil rights movement. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

I’ve known donors to react in all sorts of ways to their fourth donation. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even Jon Arryn, as great a lord as any the Eyrie had ever known, had always traveled in strength when he crossed the mountains. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Although the first known human cases in the United States appeared only as recently as 1962, Lyme disease is already reaching epidemic proportions in many parts of our country. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

I graduated from New Haven in 1915, just a quarter of a century after my father, and a little later I participated in that delayed Teutonic migration known as the Great War. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

It was known that if you had food to sell, that was where you went. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

"Listen," she said, "I have known no less than five children who have simply vanished off the face of this earth, never to be seen again. The witches took them." The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

In those evil times no one had known, really, what they were doing. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

The Lazarus woodpecker was last seen in a forest in North Louisiana known as the Singer Tract. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

He passes me the piece of dynamite formerly known as his phone. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

That was in another hiding place known to Julia, the belfry of a ruined church in an almost-deserted stretch of country where an atomic bomb had fallen thirty years earlier. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

I should have known the moment I had scratched those letters into my arm with the pen nib. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

The charging of the battery, in which ADP and a free phosphate group are combined to restore ATP, is coupled to the oxidative process; the close linking is known as coupled phosphorylation. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

She climbed back on her bicycle and peddled toward her small cottage in the nearby town of Oxford, where she was known as “Mrs. Brewer,” a refugee from Germany and mother of two. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s been raining since dawn, and so Minerva’s plan of walking to the church on foot like Patria did and seeing all the campesinos she’s known since she was a little girl is out. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

And, still later, the news spread around campus of a strike by lecturers, and students gathered in the hostel foyer, bristling with the known and the unknown. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Right on schedule, Ryan came running into the lobby, warmly dressed to go to that mysterious place known as school. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

We were both Methodists, and I was assigned to his hostel, known as Wesley House, a pleasant two-story building on the edge of the campus. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had never known her to be so stubborn. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

For centuries many of the inhabitants of this region suffered from what came to be known as “the Reichenstein disease” — chronic arsenicism with accompanying disorders of the liver, skin, and gastrointestinal and nervous systems. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

As a Sunshine Buddy, I should have known better, especially since betting that includes monetary exchange violates school ethics. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

“Will the party who addressed me at bedtime last night kindly make himself or herself known by giving an appropriate sign or signal!” Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

We wouldn’t care what Mr. van Maaren thought of the situation except that he’s known to be unreliable and to possess a high degree of curiosity. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

At the Rad Lab, the arrangement was known, after its ovoid configuration, as the racetrack. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

He would not have known he had been asleep except that he had been dreaming. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

But it was too good a word to waste, and that’s why the particles became known as Dust.” The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

And now she knew something about secrets that she hadn’t known before. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Somewhere in those inkblots there were answers I had known just a little while ago. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

With every step the silence grew, as did my sense that she knew—had known all along—that she was being followed. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

From that material, the Los Alamos bomb makers would create the device known as Fat Man, the plutonium bomb dropped over Nagasaki three days after the Hiroshima bombing. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

All of the guys in the squad who served under him are grateful for his leadership and for having known him. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

As a chief — or headman, as it was often known among the whites — my father was compelled to account for his stewardship not only to the Thembu king but to the local magistrate. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not that I'd have done much about it even if I had known. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

That struggle, known in America as the French and Indian War, began in 1754, after Washington ambushed a small French force. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

The city had such an evil reputation that the Thompson submachine gun was better known as a “Chicago typewriter.” A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Large ferrous appliances, such as the wheeled metal canisters for liquid nitrogen known as Dewar flasks, had to be chained in place. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

There would be an endless pilgrimage of Dwarves, merely to gaze at them, if such things were known to be. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

They’d probably known right away that the ship was in trouble and the bottom decks were flooding. I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 2010-06-01T00:00:00Z

They had been hearing isolated reports from the radio and others who had stayed in the city, and they were all relieved they had eschewed shelter there; they had known it would turn out poorly. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

There were all the people I had known most of my life, smiling in front of the camera because they knew I wouldn’t diss them. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

He could see them clearly, not so much with his eyes but in a way he had never known before. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Uncle Jack is the sweetest man you’ll ever meet. I’ve known him since your father and I started dating twenty-three years ago. Can’t say he’s always lucid, but he’s still a delight.” Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

The person should have known that their conduct was wrong and didn’t just deviate from what was right, but substantially deviated. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

She was still looking at this strange man from the homeland she had never known when Magister Illyrio placed a moist hand on her bare shoulder. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Serber drew a rough sketch of what became known as the “gun assembly” method. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I have known men who took half-a-dozen lashes in preference to being locked up alone. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The latter, for which I’m not known, is my own secret. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Osh was known for such predictions, most of which came true. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Mom likes to say that he was one of the smartest people she’s ever known, but that he wasn’t “good at school.” The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Right there and then I should have known the dream was an omen of death. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

My feet have known sandals, especially at school, for teacher respect. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

Genie hadn’t even known the man had fake teeth! As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

I hadn't known then how to argue his point. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

He had nothing left in the world except me, and we had known each other for just minutes. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

“You two love each other. As much as any two brothers I’ve ever known.” We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

‘He says he joined the storm above to take revenge on you, but had he known how strong you’ve become since the Grand Canyon he never would’ve approached your ship.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

No, she hadn’t known I had missed nearly thirty days of school. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

The scandal, known as Teapot Dome, landed the secretary of the interior in prison. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

At first Painter flew with Kelley in the helicopter, known as a “medevac” ship, short for medical evacuation. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

The song ends, and I slip out and around to the back row of the auditorium, known among the theater kids—aspirationally—as Makeout Alley. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

It was Hooper who found him, because he had known at once where he would have gone, they all followed Hooper, trampling and calling. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

It is one of the town’s two “apartment houses,” the second being a ramshackle mansion known, because a good part of the local school’s faculty lives there, as the Teacherage. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not to mention the burros, the most stubborn creature known to man. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

That’s why it is not known that he was in the caves. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Still, there are times I am bewildered by each mile I have traveled, each meal I have eaten, each person I have known, each room in which I have slept. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

I did, but with greater ease than I've known in writing most of my other books. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

You can’t imagine how often I’ve tried to push away this Anne, which is only half of what is known as Anne—to beat her down, hide her. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

He wondered if his father had known that Mrs. Cobb was absolutely and completely crazy when he’d sent him to read to her. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

All the despair he had known as Achren’s captive returned to sap his strength. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

Vonetta was only too happy to transform her face and her voice into Miss Trotter’s to retell the story of our oldest known ancestor, Augustus the runaway. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

The speaks also introduced fancy lavatories for women, which quickly became known as “powder rooms.” 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

She alone had known how to outsmart the malicious mountain Ka’t’sina who imprisoned the rain clouds in the northwest room of his magical house. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

“She’s been known to leave a bit of a bread crumb trail; is that right?” Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

He would not even have known that Mr. Richard was involved in the quarrel if Harrison had not told him. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

It was known more than 1,000 years before Pythagoras’s time. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

“Of course, the precise origin of burritos isn’t known. According to Wikipedia, some speculate that they might have originated in the eighteen hundreds among the vaqueros, the cowboys of northern Mexico.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

Even before the war, his father’s kindness was well known throughout the county. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Johnson and his aides quickly finalized the language of what became known as the Tonkin Gulf Resolution. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

For the first time since he had first known Jack, Ralph could feel him hesitate. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

And though few of them have met before, by the time the plats principaux are cleared, an observer would have thought that they had known each other for ages. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“That was the afternoon of June twenty-sixth, 1876. That was how the Greasy Grass Fight ended, also known as the Battle of the Little Bighorn.” In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

She glanced down the long, low-ceilinged livingroom at the double row of women, women she had merely known all her life, and she could not talk to them five minutes without drying up stone dead. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Sitting there in the dark of the house, he called up the memory of the first time he had known—really known—that she loved him. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

Some storytellers say there was also a woman, known as Agent 355. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘I was mortally afraid, of course; but if I had known more, I should not have dared even to move. It is a marvel that I escaped!’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Clearly, she hadn’t known October considered her a friend. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

Perez said it was really my mother he had known and that he had seen me only once, on the day of the funeral. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

“And I basically used her and lied to her by omission. I knew she wouldn’t’ve been down with what we did if she’d known about my contact with ‘the peen.’ Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

The suite known as AA-5 was a group of negative-pressure biocontainment rooms that had been set up as a research lab for Ebola_ virus by a civilian Army scientist named Eugene Johnson. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

A combination saloon, inn, and post office—not unlike Surratt’s tavern—it was known among Confederate sympathizers as a reliable safe house and place to exchange information. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Although Michelangelo Buonarroti is perhaps best known for his paintings of the Sistine Chapel in Rome, he always considered himself a sculptor, and primarily a sculptor of marble. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ged's voice was soft still, but changed, with a deep singing in it, and the words he spoke were not known to them. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

If you fall bravely in war the Valkyries, beautiful battle-maidens who collect the souls of the noble dead, will take you and bring you to the hall known as Valhalla. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

Leopold and Loeb, as they became known worldwide, had stripped their victim to mask his identity. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

He had known that Shamika was a longtime friend, but he assumed that she had not gotten close to Wanda until after Morris had died. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

She doesn’t want to be known as the girl whose dad has cancer. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z

Eleanor wandered along the veranda, thinking that she had never before known a house so completely surrounded. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

It was during this time that Doc made an observation which may have been true, but since there was one factor missing in his reasoning it is not known whether he was correct. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, with an obvious effort, he turned to Hermione and said, “How long have you known?” Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

“I know. But Hannah needed me, and I needed her. She wasn’t a witch, Uncle Matthew. If you could only have known her — ” Matthew looked back at the constable. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

Such a cluster of notes, known to us as a chord, did not even have a name at this time, so novel was its concept. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

He knew about as much as was known about the anatomy of the brain and the symptoms and severities of lesion and thrombus. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

He could not construct for the child’s pleasure the world he’d lost without constructing the loss as well and he thought perhaps the child had known this better than he. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

I began to feel an emotional isolation that I had not known in the depths of the hate-ridden South. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I have known and owned mean, ugly-natured cars which would have done this thing out of pure evil and malice, but not Rocinante. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

He missed school and sent word that he was ill when it was known that he was walking all alone in the hills beyond the town. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Even in her small apartment off a six-lane interstate, there was a sense of order and quiet to her life that she had never known. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

But he was only a salesman, not the inventor, and it was necessary that we make it known that the meaning of his death was greater than the incident or the object that caused it. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

They are best known for assembling the greatest empire ever seen in Mesoamerica. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

In the case of the Azores this was mistaken, while it was correct in the case of Madeira, discovered—or rather rediscovered—around the same time, for it was known to Pliny and Plutarch. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

But now he knew that there were communities everywhere, sprinkled across the vast landscape of the known world, in which people suffered. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

And so the rightful king could ever be known.’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

She hadn't even known the fine thing opened at all until visitors had poured in through it earlier that day. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

It was a devastating realization, coming to grips with the fact that all your life you had never really known the person you loved the most. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wish I’d known how briefly I would get to enjoy my new home. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Agents working on Roan’s murder case later showed the creditor’s note to an analyst at the Treasury Department, who was known as the “Examiner of Questioned Documents.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

And because we sang every day and Mr. Rice was a gifted teacher, we sang surprisingly well for children who had known little music in their lives. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The depth and width of Joy were exactly known to me: the Chinese population. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Agents launched a manhunt for Pike, whose last known address was in Kansas City. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Hoyle also realized that if stars imploded they would liberate huge amounts of heat–100 million degrees or more, enough to begin to generate the heavier elements in a process known as nucleosynthesis. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

No one could have seen her place it; they had to have known about the plan in advance. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

The new racial order, known as Jim Crow—a term apparently derived from a minstrel show character—was regarded as the “final settlement,” the “return to sanity,” and “the permanent system.” The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“I’m positive. I thought at first, when you brought me those pamphlets, that he must have known something. But I don’t think he does. And there’s no use blaming him for something he didn’t do.” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Sometimes I think I’ve known every single thing that was going to happen to me. For as long as I can remember. Even the bad things. It’s weird.” We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

One of the more incredible feats in the annals of mountaineering, it was known forever after simply as The Belay.* Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

For the first time since I’d known him, and with a furtive gesture, he offered me his hand, and I felt the scales on his skin. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

So this isn’t a first date, as I thought, but people who have known each other long enough to fight. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

The driver of the Cadillac never even stopped—he couldn’t have known that he had only killed a homemade go-cart, and not a child, but he sped on down the street, never looking back. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Enlas, who would not carry a sword or eat the flesh of animals, and who no man had ever known to speak hard words. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

She told the police that she'd known Willow for many years, not for only weeks. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

V had known her daughter in an instant, if only for the intricate twist of a braid she wore in her hair, the work of Talented fingers. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

He also told us that the pressure from the hoses had been known to break legs in the past. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“I’d have never known that you knew anything about airplanes if we didn’t just hang out sometimes.” Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

Rather, it has strengthened it: had there not been what has been, I might never have known how blessed we were. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had al-ways known she would not marry—her twisted leg made it an impossibility; she could never be a good wife, could never perform the many duties required — but certainly she could manage alone. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘And it seemed to me, too,’ said Gimli, ‘that my choice would remain secret and known only to myself.’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Working alone at Monticello, Jefferson composed what became known as the Kentucky Resolutions in August and September. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

First of all there’s the DSM, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, which lists every kind of psychological disorder known to man—that’s fun reading. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

“I’ll bet it’s not generally known, Milo, that I myself have flown only four missions, is it?” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Exactly what happens isn’t known, but it is felt pretty certain that it is connected with the core spinning and with its being liquid. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Gist was well known for the friendly relationship he had with Indians. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

In her first year of operation she had produced two volumes of poetry, written by men known mainly for their violent tempers. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

They had always known someone would hunt them down, eventually, but they had always thought one of them would survive. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

He had not been back to America since completing his survey there eighteen years earlier and had no known reason for being there, or any friends or patrons to greet him. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

“I think, deep in your heart, you’ve always known,” his mother said. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

Within hours of his birth, he had known how to run, and speed had been the measure of his life ever since. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I should have known it the moment I saw these fins. They’re spring-loaded because they have to snap out when this device leaves its storage tube.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Had I known better, I would have been scared for my life. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

He had known Kissinger at Harvard, and had spent time with him in Vietnam. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Cotton was known in Europe by the thirteenth century but not common until the eighteenth; Columbus and his men wore sturdy flax and coarse wool.* 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The phoenix is a gentle creature that has never been known to kill and eats only herbs. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

She did not even come from the servant class, although this was a secret we had to keep from the other servants who would have made her life miserable, had they known. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had been at the private hotel that he had known Miss Mellitt. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

Those protohumans are generally known as Australopithecus africanus, Homo habilis, and Homo erectus, which apparently evolved into each other in that sequence. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Let it be known that he, Oliver S. Vanderbeeker, was not to be pushed around when it came to his family. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Otherwise known as the group text in video form. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

He had known it would happen, he said sadly. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

“I should have known. It’s the dependable part of the disease. Five to seven days after exposure. This is the seventh day.” Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

I’d never known I could be so upset about being right. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

And I realize what I’ve always known—that family isn’t really about blood and having the same last name. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

But what saddened him the most was the realization—too late now—that despite everything, he had hardly known his uncle at all. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

For hours, she’d fought them off, and she hadn’t even known it. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

I had known the city before, in my youth, when I sailed from there once to France. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everyone here is dreading the great terror known as winter. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

People exhibiting this purest form of the disorder would become known, in the jargon of psychiatry, as “Cleckley” psychopaths. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Over the next several years the two men between them increased the number of known dinosaur species in America from 9 to almost 150. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

She’d forgotten all language long ago, or maybe had never known any. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

Exactly as I had known it would, almost overnight the Charlestown convicts, black and white, began buzzing with the story. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had known her since she had arrived in the community and he had always spoken to her in a kindly fashion. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

He had always known with absolute certainty that a dog would make everything better. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

Maybe there are some houses, like the Daughertys', that have never known it—that house probably hasn't ever had a quiet day. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

No pain Theon had ever known came close to the agony that Skinner could evoke with a little flensing blade. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He had known all this for a long time but he had never said it, except in fragments. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a minute the girl flashed at her, from what might have been an emptiness greater than any Eleanor had ever known. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

In other words, it would be harmful to humanity to have the explanation known, and that’s why we can only guess—and keep on guessing.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

It is not known whether Henri was a good painter or not for he threw himself so violently into movements that he had very little time left for painting of any kind. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ever since he had materialized at the track from somewhere on the frontier—no one knew exactly where—none of the racetrackers had known what to make of him. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then I came across his hat, the cowboy hat that he’d worn for almost as long as I’d known him. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

He hadn't known fire could look this way. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

Such combinations make up the particles known as mesons, which are unstable because the quark and antiquark can annihilate each other, producing electrons and other particles. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

But all her life, Jinjoo had instinctively known that her father cared for them more than their mother did. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

And at least this time, I’d known to do the homework twice. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wandering around the markers, I couldn’t help noticing the dates, wondering if Gideon had known some of these folks while they were still among the living. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

The praises of caseworkers who should have known better infuriated me so much that I had to walk away to calm down. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

On a brisk spring evening not long ago, two dozen men and women gathered in the back room of a Manhattan bar to engage in a peculiar ritual known as speed-dating. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

It had been easy to talk to her daddy, because she hadn’t known that he was dead. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Because Burger was already well known in Osage County, he would work openly with White. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“Listen to me. I couldn’t mistake him. I’ve known him all my life. I saw him.” Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“He is known to have been alive at about twenty minutes to one, when he spoke to the conductor,” said M. Bouc. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

The waking dream had been so vivid, for a moment Bran had not known where he was. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

No. If she had known she would have screamed. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

How had she known, before he asked it, what he was planning to ask of her? Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

Robert had never known the house, and looked at it with interest “I never knew you in your former home,” he remarked. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

And even if they had, I wouldn't have known its definite meaning, for it might have had to do with the charges. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

He not only exonerated Roscius, but went on the attack against his two accusers, rounding on a known favorite of the then-dictator Sulla. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

The Englishmen had known for twelve hours that American guests were on their way. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gomez herself had known what was coming when she handed out campaign literature one day in the northeast. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wasn't too crazy about her, but I'd known her for years. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

“Well, I wouldn’t have asked for it if I’d known I was going to be punished for it!” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

More and more of them came outside, blinking up at the blue sky, and many of them were carrying torches as though they had known what Kaede was preparing to do. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

They speak with the ease of people who have known each other for years, and the excitement of new friends with new stories. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Organizationally unable and psychologically unprepared to challenge the rule of the Big Men, as the business leaders were known, the mill hands simply endured their lot. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

“But why didn’t Joe come back before it got dark? With it snowing so, he might have known how we’d worry.” Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

I’m going to look at the place where you sleep and eat and live and wish I’d known just a little sooner that you were right here.” The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

A thousand years ago, she had known a girl who loved lemon cakes. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

You are a father, a dictator, a servant, the most agile actor this land has ever known. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

They laughed together like they had known each other since preschool. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

In gymnastics circles, it is known simply as “the ranch.” Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

It was colder and wetter than I’d ever known June could be. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Desma Mann fretted at the idea of her baby going off so far away, all alone, but she had always known that day would come. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

It was a miracle, everyone said, so that was the new name they gave Mother’s recipe: after Dad’s burn it was known as Miracle Salve. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Would he have been so quick to send her away if he’d known there was food in the building for them to eat? The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

So yes, I’m definitely attracted to her, but there’s something else too, and I’m not just saying that because she has the nicest legs in the known universe. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

She pauses for a moment before adding, “Though perhaps he is better known as Prospero the Enchanter.” The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“I didn’t mean Annabeth. She and I have known each other forever. She would never ... I mean, she’s like a little sister to me.” The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

He knew what had happened in our city in the 1960s, but he hadn’t known how deeply involved I’d been. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

They were too boisterous to miss, loitering around one of the baggage carousels, laughing and talking as if they’d known one another for years. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

She was frustrated that she hadn’t known any of this, that she’d been blind to the faith of a billion or so people. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

I think now of how little she’d known at the time, how little any of us could have known. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Asha thought she had known cold on Pyke, when the wind came howling off the sea, but that was nothing compared to this. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

They finally came to a point of land located just where the canal known as the Montlake Cut—simply the Cut, in local parlance—entered Union Bay on the west side of Lake Washington. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Until then he hadn’t even known the bracelets existed. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

To be able to picture the terrible battle which now took place, there is one thing which ought to be known. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most people write stuff like nice known’ ya, and we in middle school now! Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

They moved there after his father died, and I'd never known life without him. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Game studios aren’t exactly known for strict dress codes, but even they must have some sort of etiquette for meeting the top bosses. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Jessie had known her fiance very well, and she was madly in love with him. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had never known her father, which put her in the company of the greater number of everyone I’d known. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Moments later, Yusuf and I found ourselves among the more than fifty of our volunteers led by Flag Boshielo who were being taken in trucks to the red-brick police station known as Marshall Square. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The man had a foot of height on me, but you never would have known by the way he dropped to his knees in front of me. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

“There are such things as ghosts. People everywhere have always known that. And we believe in them every bit as much as Homer did. Only now, we call them by different names. Memory. The unconscious.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

But she had always kept it to herself and no person had ever known. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

The kitchen was a small detached building in the rear, known as the cookhouse. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

How he managed to reach his weather instruments and take readings is not known, nor are his words when he finally tumbled back in, though “Jeeeeeeeesus!” would seem an apt possibility. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Located downstairs on the same street was what is known in New York City as a “candy store.” Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe he’d even known when the chair was just a dark shadow, a dark blot in the overwhelming glow. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Everything was white, as if the people who lived here had known nothing of color. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Relief floods her face—I guess because somebody has finally understood what she’s known probably from the first tolling of the bells. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

The curtain parts again in about 1500 B.C., when an archipelago of villages, the largest known as Poverty Point, grew up in the northeast corner of Louisiana. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Which means that a murder victim is usually killed by someone known to them and fairies are made out of paper and you can’t talk to someone who is dead. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

If his theory became well known, and popular, it could topple British society on its head. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

You may think that of course Shakespeare must have known his own date of birth, even if we do not. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

What I learned from my year at the British Museum and from my summer at home, other academics have learned; others have known the impossibility of going home, going back. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Since I’ve known him. If he had any sense, he would’ve tossed out that romanticized idea of her he’s had for so long and gotten to work doing something useful.” Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

I think if I’d known Jesse was going to kill himself, I would have locked my arms around him and never let that kiss end. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Even in Michigan, my steering clear of all sisters was so well known, they just couldn’t believe it. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

He smells like pine trees and fired tobacco, expensive soap the likes of which my family’s never known. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

But even more, it broke for the sister he hadn’t known. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

That’s not exactly true: I do know what I’m really known for. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

In fact, he would not have even known it was a lake at all if it wasn't for the giant moon reflected in the water. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

I look at Ben and he’s a different man than he always was, he’s a different man than the one I’ve always known. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Cat of the Canals had known these alleys, and the ugly girl remembered. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“And you have not known a wife for thousands of years...” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

And when I walked alongside her, I ceased being known as Sara. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

She had clearly not been warned that the sheriff would be coming, though something in her husband’s demeanor told me he must have known. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

They denounced books they had never read, people they had never known, ideas they could never understand, and doctrines whose names they could not pronounce. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The lion in King’s Landing is a cub, and the Iron Throne has been known to cut grown men to ribbons.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

But how do we explain the apparent motion of the planets—Mars, for example, which had been known for thousands of years before Ptolemy’s time? Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had not known that he was going to ask the question, and he watched in astonishment as her mouth tightened and her eyes grew dark. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

“If I give you the known points and a distance between them, cadet, can you solve it? Can you draw the triangle?” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Health-care delivery is what doctors now do, along with hospitals and the other professionals who work with doctors, now known collectively as the health providers. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Amari smiled with anticipation, for her mother was known as one of the most talented dancers in the Ewe tribe. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Considering the frequency with which they turn up at seminal events in eighteenth-century science, remarkably little is known about either man. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Pinmei knew Amah was known for her embroidery skills, but this was extraordinary. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

His word had always been accepted on the plantation because he was never known to tell a lie. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

On this night, he thought of all the dead Marines he had known and not known, and he loved all of them; the beauty and loss of this night moved him. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was known back then and still am for my remarkable ability to whistle any song I’d ever heard. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

How had he lived twelve years and never known this about sunsets? Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Our watan is now known as the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Her mother, exhausted with grief, slept later than Lupita had ever known her to do, so Lupita tended to the baby and her younger brother and sisters. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

Standing at the fitting rooms and facing toward the main store entrance, we are looking directly at the tentlike, utilitarian plus sizes, also known as “woman” sizes. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I asked Henry instead if he had known of Kwang before. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Anyway, the friends I had known all my life—the kids I went to school and church with—stood all around me. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

When you pluck the string without the bridge, you get a clear note, the tone known as the fundamental. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Maybe she wouldn't be known as the crazy lady, she thought. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“That,” she said, cracking a smile for the first time since I’d known her, “was awesome.” Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

This was a device known as a ‘compass’—a graduated metal instrument that could be used as a calculator. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

They had known all the angles, but beneath that surface they were poor, ignorant, untrained black men; life had eased up on them and hyped them. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

At other times, she did not weep, but stared at the rafters and repeated, “I will not scratch, Octavian. Although I itch. I have never known an itch like this one. It fills the room.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

She hadn’t known who was doing the bidding. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Evolutionary biologists have recently been developing ever more sophisticated methods for drawing conclusions from comparisons of different plants and animals of known evolutionary histories. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The latter were extremely well known about Harlem, and they were feared and respected. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Though it is not widely known, the prosecutor is the most powerful law enforcement official in the criminal justice system. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

By June, his body was humming, capable of speed and stamina beyond anything he’d ever known. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

I had never known that I could make someone feel this way. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I leaned forward, too, right up against his chest, where it was warm and smelled of pine and old books and thousands of possibilities I had never known. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

She hadn’t known what had happened to them after the killing. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

And he has known his father’s name and the location of the house he once lived in for two. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nina tilted her head back to gaze at the high black towers of the fortress known as Hellgate, a dark fist of stone thrusting up from the sea. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The Depression made itself known to Lefty by a growing number of empty barstools. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

My friend accompanied me to the offices of a large private foundation well known for its activities and donations in the civil-rights area. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

As yet Cluny had not chosen a new second-in-command, though he had let it be known that any of his followers who distinguished himself in the coming battle would receive immediate promotion in the field. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

There could be no judgment from a boy known as Dirtyhands. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

If I’d been sober all those years, would I have known? The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

I suddenly understood how he had known so much about her—this was the same woman who had captured him before. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

“He wants to make sure you don’t pull a disappearing act. You have been known to wander off.” Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

“If I’d known we were going to the beach, I would have worn flip-flops.” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

“You talk like you’ve known this a long time. You—” “I have. So’s your father. We wondered, sometimes, when your conscience and his would part company, and over what.” Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Anyone who implies that Lord Darlington was liaising covertly with a known enemy is just conveniently forgetting the true climate of those times. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

I should’ve known then that I was in for a lot of trouble. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

He never spoke of him with anything other than respect and admiration; he said that his father was the wisest man he had ever known. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

He must have known I was going to knock on his door that day, because she must have told him. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Freeze, who had been hatched in an incubator and had never known any mother other than Susan, cuddled in her lap. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Thus, to take an example at random, Leonardo Pisano, known as Fibonacci, is the supposed discoverer of the Fibonacci number series. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

"He's just—a friend of mine. We've known each other online for a long time." Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

Ifx represents the vector of variables, b and c are vectors of known coefficients, and A is a matrix of coefficients, determine the maximum value of the objective function cTx . Ungifted 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z

Hagrid had been known to befriend giant spiders, buy vicious, three-headed dogs from men in pubs, and sneak illegal dragon eggs into his cabin. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

His brother Aeron would have known, but Aeron had seen the majesty of the Drowned God’s watery halls below the sea before being returned to life. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He was astonished and delighted that this was available to him, and surprised that he had not known. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

And how on earth could he have known that they would find Mary’s bones in the furnace so soon? Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

She had known personally but one Mexican, who made and sold excellent tamales, and whom she would have trusted implicitly, so soft- spoken was he. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

The AC was on, but you never would have known by the heat he was giving off. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Lord, in six months my ears have heard what they hadn’t known about in twenty-four years. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It later became known simply as The Voyage of the Beagle. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The vibration of the seat was the only feeling my butt had ever known. Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z

The king now returned to the Hornburg, and slept, such a sleep of quiet as he had not known for many years, and the remainder of his chosen company rested also. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

And yet Ralph held his arm up in the snow all the same, thinking how he hadn’t even known Theresa owned a bathing suit. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

She might have already known she was dying by then, anyway. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

As far as Oshiro was concerned, it was all dense, dangerous jungle when they were out on reconnaissance missions known as “recon.” Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

As I looked at their faces—all these campers I’d known for so many summers—a nagging voice whispered in my mind: One of them is a spy. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

R.C. was mean, but I’d never known him to hurt his sister. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

Out in his boat at dawn, at the mouth of the river he has known all his life. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had never really figured out how the fish had known to grow eyes. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Fortunately for us such an extreme situation is only theoretical, but the dire results of upsetting nature’s own arrangements are well known to students of animal populations. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

There were no more jokes or excuses to be made for the silly, grumpy old woman we’d known from birth. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Simon. I believe this is known as having your cake and eating it, too.” Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

In the late 1800s, long before the start of the Cold War, France took control of Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos, ruling the three countries as a colony known as French Indochina. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Today you would never guess that it had ever known fame. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Why should he have felt the need to try to make his feelings known? Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

They were known everywhere to be the most self- pitying, least fraternal, and dirtiest of all prisoners of war, said Campbell. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

He might like my descriptions of what I’ve seen on Sagan, but he’s known nothing but this ship for ninety percent of his life. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

A fear he had never known filled him to the point of insanity. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

“So, on this day,” Mrs. Grayson continued, “young Zalika, who had never known even one day of joy in her life, decided she would not be beaten again.” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“I wouldn’t have known that if you hadn’t told me. I think you’re probably cleverer than Mrs. Coulter.” The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

No, it is the Union Light Guard, otherwise known as the Seventh Independent Company of Ohio Volunteer Cavalry, that gallops to the rescue. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

These stories have an inevitable pattern untroubled by the question, If none return, how is it known what is there? Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

And I don’t know—have never known—exactly what I believe. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Time was as they’d always known it to be before Mr. Flux came to town. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

It was only by chance that Burger wasn't murdered in what was later known as the "Night of the Long Knives." Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

They didn’t live in the corporation boardinghouses but in that part of the city known as “the Acre.” Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

But even if they had known, they probably wouldn’t have paid it much mind. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Somehow Luke had known without wanting to know. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

Ragtime’s syncopation fed directly into an energetic, driving piano style of the 1920s known as ‘stride’. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Then turning to me, “But the Ekumen must be willing to help us, Mr. Ai. We have got to have more to show our people than you alone, one man, already known in Erhenrang.” The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

I would’ve liked to have known her, a wild horse of a woman, so wild she wouldn’t marry. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

It feeds mainly on rats and birds, though has been known to carry off monkeys. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

He remembered Juno’s warning when he’d chosen to go to Camp Jupiter: You will feel pain, misery, and loss beyond anything you’ve ever known. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

I feel like we’ve known each other much longer than we actually have. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

She knew this showed lack of proper feeling, but she had barely known Vatete. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He informed us that we would be known as the Class of 1962 of the Santa Maria High School Saints. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

Her legs are shaved, making me think I should have known earlier that it was a girl. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Perhaps nothing in natural history has been at the center of fiercer and more enduring hatreds than the line of ancient beasts known as dinosaurs. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

He had lived with Rab a year and a half, and yet he had never really known him—not known him inside out as, say, he had known the hated Dove. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Who has not been quick in the four years she has known him. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

I’d known just enough loss by then to know that there was more coming. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

I thought about what Mom had said: how she wished I had known him before. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Rosemarie is what’s known as a caretaker, according to my mother, which—also according to my mother—is exactly what my father needs. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

With the knowledge of the sentences his brother and the other two defendants had received, he’d known his fate would be the same. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

He hadn’t known the dagger killed only if she wanted it to. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

"I know because I do. I've known for a long time." Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

She couldn’t have known how hard it was to say anything at all. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

She had never known anything about him, he had never wanted it. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

Every man has a signature, a sound he makes when he wants to be known. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

But at the same time, she feels suddenly exposed, aware that he has always known where each of them stood. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

‘That I have known since first we came down from the Emyn Muil. For the will is not behind us but before us.’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

She heard a word that she had never known. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had known all along her parents would not approve; all this time they had indulged her hobby but now that she was eighteen, she knew, things would be different. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Polly was known to be a cunning dog and could get Charles to give her what she wanted. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few days later I let it be known that I was going to be baptized into the church and confirmed as soon as the nuns thought I was ready. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

What I did know was that he was unlike any man I had ever known. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

I’ve known a lot of sorrow, but who hasn’t at my age? The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

They lacked something that could have been given to them if we’d only known they needed it: a community around them that prepared them properly for the world. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Restorative justice is sometimes used in Alameda County as an alternative to criminal court for juveniles accused of felonies, a process known as diversion because the accused is diverted away from criminal court. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

A place that is neither provably sterile nor known to be infective. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Greeks apparently had some such feeling because in their stories, although they represent these creatures as living beings, they make them unlike any form of life known to man. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

The ape-man was known to have attacked people. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Had the boat ever been known to capsize before?” asked the coroner. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Since I had applied for such a nonentity of a job, Quackenbush, who had known as little about me as I had about him, knew now. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Beyond that, however, virtually nothing is known about how the young guide met his end. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

He slept and slept, healing himself from a long journey that was beyond any travels I had ever known. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

What was left of the old Russian Empire would become known as the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics—the USSR, or Soviet Union. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Within a few years Macondo was a village that was more orderly and hard-working than any known until then by its three hundred inhabitants. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

I thought I’d known what to expect of Montana—that here a person could not only have dreams, but could hold them and they wouldn’t shatter. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Unfortunately, transits of Venus, as they are known, are an irregular occurrence. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Little of this was known then—I am quoting from later reports—and none of it was visible from the plane. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The Jackson Junior League Annual Ball and Benefit is known simply as “the Benefit” to anyone who lives within a ten-mile radius of town. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

I had always known that arrest was a possibility, but even freedom fighters practice denial, and in my cell that night I realized I was not prepared for the reality of capture and confinement. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had always known so many things, and she had accepted that as a matter of course. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

I’ve already made my selection, which is peanut M&M’s, otherwise known as one of the world’s perfect foods, and I’m waiting for Bennie to take my money and count my change back to me. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Part of the story that Axel hadn’t known. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Always before she had known she could stand any- thing, because someday soon Courtney would come and take her home. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

“It’s well known that you’ve dispatched many an adversary on the fields of color.” Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

They wouldn't have known if the other boys actually stopped talking and joking because they were no longer paying attention. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

Afros today are rare, dashikis even rarer; Black Panther founder Bobby Seale is best known today for peddling a line of barbecue products. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

This is what is known as a vicious circle. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

This was an art school, and the writing workshop was commonly known as the easiest way to fulfill one's mandatory English credits. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z