It couldn't ha' been, and none of us know it.”
— from Adam Bede by George Eliot
Omar had decided to act on the sage's advice, and none of us knew what the result might be.
— from The Great White Queen: A Tale of Treasure and Treason by William Le Queux
"But we have no boatman, and none of us know how to manage the sail," argued Deck.
— from Brother Against Brother; Or, The War on the Border by Oliver Optic
While on this stream, we had a mule bitten by an enormous rattle-snake, and none of us knew what to do in the matter.
— from The Scout and Ranger Being the Personal Adventures of Corporal Pike of the Fourth Ohio cavalry by James Pike
It was all sea and sky, and big wave, and no land, and none of us knew our way back."
— from Nature and Human Nature by Thomas Chandler Haliburton
You know, we wish to learn all we can, and neither of us knows anything about that end of the business.
— from The Circus Boys on the Plains; Or, The Young Advance Agents Ahead of the Show by Edgar B. P. Darlington
Five of the sailors were there before us, and none of us knew what had become of the rest of the crew—perhaps they were already taken prisoners.
— from A Lady's Captivity among Chinese Pirates in the Chinese Seas by Fanny Loviot
She sat in the train to return, I remember, and I stood at the open door of her compartment, and neither of us knew how soon we should cease for ever to be a trouble to one another.
— from Tono-Bungay by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
And after that we two took a long walk; and neither of us knew whither we went, or how long we stayed.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 108, October, 1866 A Magazine of Literature, Science, Art, and Politics by Various
The Nornir are wise, and none of us knows his fate beforehand.”
— from Ivar the Viking A romantic history based upon authentic facts of the third and fourth centuries by Paul B. (Paul Belloni) Du Chaillu
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