“... cash to pay the rent and was found wandering in King’s Cross Station, where he ended up in the unknown strays department with no money. His wife and daughter came to visit him. He didn’t remember them but said they seemed very nice. So our plan was out and I found myself dumped by a man for his wife. The other result was that he became the amnesiac ...”

“... but freedom of the will does not exist, for a will that aims at its own freedom aims at the unknown.’ With Arthur’s sons portrayed as solitary strivers, schematically exploring the possibilities offered by Faith, Money and Art, it’s permissible to echo Bonpland’s words when Humboldt kept his gaze away from the eclipse: ‘Did one always have to ...”

“... it’s over.11 June. For years now I’ve been periodically sent odd press cuttings by someone unknown to me, his name and the note that accompanies them almost illegible. I take it I’m not the only beneficiary of this bounty, which must be quite costly in time and postage and indeed papers. Not that the cuttings are those one particularly wants to ...”

“... with everyone else at the arboreal plenty of America but, as a German, has experience of something unknown in the New World: forest management. He feels more affinity with the indigenous people than the incomers, not least in their attitude to time: In Europe people consider the past and the future with greater seriousness. We have been managing forests for ...”

“... but several Trotskyist parties, including the Jeunesse Communiste Révolutionnaire – numbers unknown but a driving force in Nanterre – plus at least two extreme-sports parties of the Maoist persuasion. What was astonishing was the way the student protest found an echo in the factories. Days after the students abandoned the lecture theatres, workers ...”

“... Then the novel won the Prix Goncourt. By now the rumours were proliferating. Some said the unknown author was a Lebanese terrorist, others that he was this or that famous writer, and Gary claimed to have met a young woman who told him she had had a liaison with Ajar, who was, she said, ‘a terrific fucker’. Gary recruited a distant cousin called ...”

“... manual of killing methods in his father’s attic – and with it, as Branche puts it, ‘an unknown father’. Only when his father was dying did Feiertag learn that his middle name, Bernard, belonged to his father’s best friend – a soldier killed as a result of a ‘regrettable error’, never spelled out. As the child of another veteran ...”

“... which builds characteristically from weakness to strength, ends by centring on the irreducible unknown lives that Herbert imagines, ‘a city where a man died yesterday someone went mad/someone coughed hopelessly all night’:                depending on the train’s directionjust before or just after the city a mountain suddenlyrose up from a ...”

“... to mean that the Italian people had quite recently become spectacularly corrupt, for reasons unknown. But soon it was recognised that what was new was only the exposure of long-established corruption, and that it was not a people that was corrupt but rather a specific political system, controlled by party bureaucracies headed by rival cliques or ...”

“... that he had died, Mossy remembered the visit. After a search among the many unclaimed copies of unknown men, women and children stacked around the walls of his studio he found the lady.’ Hunty’s pen raced. Lennox emptied his brandy glass. Hunty loudly called for more. The beautiful young colleen who enchanted the heart of James Joyce, shapely and ...”

“... princess who kissed the frog/so he became a prince’ in order to impose on the tale a conclusion unknown to the Opies: ‘Though courtship turns frogs into princes,/marriage turns them quietly back again.’ In ‘Laocoön’, she makes the familiar myth of unexpected suffering, where we pity the men attacked, an allegory of men’s aggression against ...”

“... the President and the Senate. The cabinet usually consists of unknowns (sometimes they are even unknown to the President) and the process of choosing is extraordinarily complicated. It is characteristic of President Carter that his own account of his Presidency should begin by describing his dithering over whom he should appoint to various posts (he ...”

“... Sceptics, however, died out; their writings disappeared. Though Cicero’s Academica was not unknown during the Middle Ages, Scepticism emerged again only when the Renaissance rediscovered Sextus. The price of resurrection was, as always, transformation. The differences between ancient and modern Scepticism are obvious from the opening pages of ...”

“... a substantial number of people. He unearthed a huge mass of material, much of it previously unknown, and on particular issues, such as the question of Krupp’s attitude to Hitler in 1932-33, before the Nazis seized power, he stuck to the documentary record and did not make claims that went beyond it. Manchester was not an economic historian, and he was ...”

“... it a ‘primitive flareback’, a belief that ‘in writing her name she was permitting some unknown hostile force to obtain ascendancy over her.’) At 43 years of age, Dickinson remained in her room upstairs during her father’s funeral, her door cracked open, listening to the prayers and eulogies in the library below. Lavinia denied there was ...”