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God knows how   /gɑd noʊz haʊ/   Listen
God knows how

adverb
1.
By some means not understood by the speaker.






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"God knows how" Quotes from Famous Books



... that would worry me, and he said, 'You're drinking too much. People that drink can't be trusted.' 'You know,' I replied, 'I didn't drink too much when I was with you. I'm not drinking as much as you are, right now.' He answered, 'I've been off on a desert island for God knows how many months, and I'm celebrating my escape.' 'Well,' I answered, 'let ...
— Sylvia's Marriage • Upton Sinclair

... I'll tell you along the way. You mustn't be here an hour longer. I saw their signal smokes this very morning. They're murdering everyone—men, women, and children. It's Little Crow who started it, and God knows how many settlers they've killed. They chased me for hours, but I had a good horse. It only gave out yesterday; and since then—But come. It's suicide to chatter like this." He turned insistently toward the door. "They ...
— Where the Trail Divides • Will Lillibridge

... does, bid him come to me. Make him come to me! Tell him that I will do him no harm. God knows how truly it is my ...
— The Vicar of Bullhampton • Anthony Trollope

... freedom in criticism of your acts, and I take leave to think that I have been generally in the right. You know that I am no flatterer. But I tell you, sir, from my inmost heart that you are the only man to lead the people, because you are the only man whose courage never fails. God knows how you manage it. I am of the bull-dog type and hold on because I do not know how to let go. Most of my work I do in utter hopelessness. But you, sir, you never come within a mile of despair. The blacker the ...
— The Path of the King • John Buchan

... and naturally savage, so that God knows how the conversation would have ended, if the Chevalier de Grammont had not unexpectedly come in to appease them. It was some time before he could find out what their debate was; for the one had forgotten the questions, and the other the answers, which had disobliged him, in order ...
— The Memoirs of Count Grammont, Complete • Anthony Hamilton


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