Citations:knowing


 * 1678 — John Bunyan. The Pilgrim's Progress.
 * When Christ said, "Do you know all these things?" and the disciples had answered, Yes; he addeth, "Blessed are ye if ye do them."  He doth not lay the blessing in the knowing of them, but in the doing of them.


 * 1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.
 * But what did Scrooge care! It was the very thing he liked. To edge his way along the crowded paths of life, warning all human sympathy to keep its distance, was what the knowing ones call "nuts" to Scrooge.