Do we say gnu or knew

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* TO AN INFANT GNU.

But it will serve as well as any other), There be coarse souls to whom all flesh is game, Who do not hail thee as a new-born brother But merely as a thing at which to aim Their fratricidal guns; they simply smother The sense, which I for one cannot eschew, Of soul relationship 'twixt man and gnu. 'Tis not,

at hand A tablet reads, "C. Gnu.

Free of the waste he snuffed the breeze at morn, The fleet-foot peer of sassaby and kudu; The hunting leopard feared his bristling horn, The foul hyæna voted him a hoodoo; Browsing on tender grass and camel-thorn He roamed the plains, as all right-minded gnu do; But now he eats the bun of discontent That once was lord of half a continent.

The keeper said, "Please not to feed the gnu, Sir."

Others, (perhaps with more reason,) assume, that the most usual, regular, and proper endings for the plural, in these instances, are ies, oes, and ues: as, alkali, alkalies; halo, haloes; gnu, gnues; enemy, enemies.

The misshapen but harmless kangaroo of New Holland is a fellow-lodger with the ferocious gnu of Southern Africa; and the patient llama, who has left the snowy sides and precipitous defiles of the Andes, contemplates without terror its formidable neighbours, the wolf of the Pyrenees, and the bear of the stupendous mountains of Thibet.

knew 45943 occurrences

This poem was written for Coleridge's translation of "The Piccolimini," the first part of Schiller's "Wallenstein," in 1800Coleridge supplying a prose paraphrase (for Lamb knew no German) for the purpose.

But the late Mrs. Coe, who knew Lamb at Widford when she was a child, told me that she remembered Lamb's black pipe and his devotion to it, about 1830.

The Diary has this entry: "I inquired whether he knew the name of Lamb.

As the editors have not annotated the passage, I will say here that Lamb should have quoted The modest eye That met the glance, or turn'd, it knew not why.

I knew a youth who died For grief, because his Love proved so, And married to another.

they, who knew him best, call'd it

I knew a youth who died, 85.

Twelve years ago I knew thee, Knowles, and then, 62.

"He knew what was in man;" He read the hearts of others till, like the Samaritan woman, they felt as though He knew all things that ever they had done.

"He knew what was in man;" He read the hearts of others till, like the Samaritan woman, they felt as though He knew all things that ever they had done.

Nevertheless, He knew nothing against Himself; as no man could condemn Him neither could He condemn Himself.

What could Jesus do with ignorance like thisignorance that knew not its own ignorance?

He knew that His hour was comethe hour to which all other hours of His past had pointed; and He was ready.

They remembered how He had told them He must die; they knew the bloodhounds in Jerusalem were on His track; they could see the shadow's black edge creeping nearer and nearer; and yet they could do nothing; they could not even persuade Him that anything needed to be done.

We knew that the seed which we cast into the ground was the word of God; but the soil seemed so poor and thin we scarce had looked for any harvest; yet the seed sprang up and grew, we knew not how.

We knew that the seed which we cast into the ground was the word of God; but the soil seemed so poor and thin we scarce had looked for any harvest; yet the seed sprang up and grew, we knew not how.

When He who knew Himself to be the eternal Son of God spoke of His own life as the "ransom" for the forfeited lives of men, He revealed once more how infinite is the worth of that which could be redeemed only at such tremendous cost.

Nevertheless, paradox though it may seem, our greatest Teacher concerning sin, Himself "knew no sin."

Born without sin, living and dying without sin, Christ yet "knew what was in man," knew the sin that was in man, and from His own sinless height once for all revealed and judged and condemned it.

Born without sin, living and dying without sin, Christ yet "knew what was in man," knew the sin that was in man, and from His own sinless height once for all revealed and judged and condemned it.

It's lucky I caught the man who knew.

He never knew that the Vicar, who had played so large a part in shaping his life, looked then at him for the very last of innumerable timesdid not know even that he was there.

He knew, every one knew; his ideas were no longer vague.

Water voles came out over the country and did infinite havoc, and one day a farmer caught his pigs drinking there, and instantly and with great presence of mindfor he knew: of the great hog of Oakhamslew them all.

Now it may seem a strange thing, but it is a fact that the giant Princess, when she came to England, knew of no other giants whatever.

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