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know not of what sort they

I know you would have taken care not to venture yourself upon this issue, because the sight would have removed all doubt from your mind that there ever has been or can be a beauty to be compared with hers; and so, not saying you lie, but merely that you are not correct in what you state, I accept your challenge, with the conditions you have proposed, and at once, that the day you have fixed may not expire; and from your conditions I except only that of the renown of your achievements being transferred to me, for I know not of what sort they are nor what they may amount to; I am satisfied with my own, such as they be.
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

knows not on which side to

Imagination may range at pleasure till it gets bewildered amidst the labyrinths of an enchanted castle, and knows not on which side to turn to extricate itself from the perplexities into which it has so rashly adventured.
— from The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton

know no one we speak to

Still, we know no one; we speak to one or two people at the Casino, and that is all; we live in our studious way, going on with Tasso, whom I like, but who, now I have read more than half his poem, I do not know that I like half so well as Ariosto.
— from The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Volume 1 (of 2) by Marshall, Julian, Mrs.

knew no one worthy save the

But she knew no one worthy save the Bowdoins, and they did not get on with him.
— from Pirate Gold by Frederic Jesup Stimson

know not on which supposition they

Now these statements are either true or false; and I know not on which supposition they are most creditable to the writer.
— from The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown

knew not on which side to

[225] their huge party, so lately with the organization [Pg 187] of an army, was gaping and splitting everywhere, and they knew not on which side to turn.
— from History of England from the Fall of Wolsey to the Death of Elizabeth. Vol. III by James Anthony Froude

know nothing of warfare said the

“Women know nothing of warfare,” said the general, shrugging his shoulders.
— from Preston Fight; or, The Insurrection of 1715 by William Harrison Ainsworth

know not of what substance to

We know not of what substance to name them.
— from Celt and Saxon — Complete by George Meredith

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