“... had been up the stairs and down. I felt myself too proximate, now, to the gutsy, beery laughter of unknown men. ‘I’d rather …’ I said. I wanted to ask her to try for an intermediate floor. Perhaps not all the rooms were empty, though? It was the other occupants I didn’t like, the thought of them, and I realised that here on the ground floor I was ...”

“... burning for we are not still nor is this place a wind utterly outside ourselves and yet it is unknown and all the sails full to the last rag of the topgallant, royal tops’l, the least rags at the mast-heads to save the commonplace save myself Tyger Tyger still burning in me burning in the night sky burning in us the light in the room it was all ...”

“... the Grill or the Submarine. Trembling in the ghostly space that was once the women’s cells, an unknown woman began telling quiet stories of horror, but also of love and solidarity. This was not ‘obstinate memory’, as in the title of Patricio Guzmán’s film – in which he shows his own The Battle of Chile to uninformed schoolchildren – but helpless ...”

“... detailed account of the affair, together with the reprinting of ‘Beatrice Palmato’, a hitherto unknown fragment of soft porn about father-daughter incest, appeared to overturn the established image of Wharton as a strait-laced grande dame – ‘puritanically repressed within’, in Lewis’s phrase, as well as formidable without. The passage of ...”

“... meant trusting Napoleon. Sieyès at least had the excuse in 1799 that Bonaparte was a relatively unknown quantity. In 1815 Constant should have known better. The broader difficulty with Constant’s conception of representation is that it invites people to get involved in politics while also inviting them to hold something back. Vigilance requires a certain ...”

“... it has real consequences on the ground, it barely figures in the budget balance and is largely unknown to the American public. Conservatives do talk about debt sustainability. Dark warnings of an inflationary disaster, for example, summoned by goldbugs and the crypto crowd, have created demand for so-called ‘safe haven’ assets. But there is no real ...”

“... of being a Russian. It was only under Gorbachev that I started to experience a feeling hitherto unknown to me, pride in my country and its leader.’ But just as he first spoke for Gorbachev when everyone else had abandoned him, so he turned to the fate of the other societies that had made up the USSR after it had disappeared from the map, and they had ...”

“... I was indulging in play, and lost myself.O for the day that is dying!At home I was secluded, unknown,When I left home, my fame spread far and wide,The pious laid all their merit at my feet.O for the day that is dying!My beauty was like a warehouse filled with rare merchandise,Which drew men from all the four quarters;Now my richness is gone, I have no ...”

“... I would just run until I disappeared into the earth. That was my plan. I went to the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier with John and Chandler one time. He just wanted her to see it, and he loved it there. He was such a peaceful man. That’s what you would say about him. I’ve been there a bunch of times but I’m not going to that place again. I just can’t go ...”

“... them up. To a conscientious Muslim, this is the perfect storm, in which opaque liabilities, the unknown nature of the underlying debt, fair-weather forecasts by ratings agencies, plus risk transfer and riba, conspire to wreck large parts of the fleet. Is there anyone clinging to the flotsam, post-9/15, who disagrees?Non-Muslims will recognise the process of ...”

“... alone with her mother while being happily married?’; ‘Who has unparalleled success yet remains unknown?’). Journalists have lapped all this up without always seeing the joke, writing about Jelinek as a literary bag lady and crank. Jelinek seems happy to encourage this caricature. Around the time of the Nobel award, she gave interviews claiming that her ...”

“... In his journal for 1963 he brooded over this: My grandfather is supposed to have died, alone, unknown, a stranger to his wife and his sons, in a furnished room on Charles Street. My own father spent two or three years in his late seventies alone at the farm in Hanover. The only heat was a fireplace; his only companion a halfwit who lived up the road. I ...”

“... still a supporter of the president, but it’s gotten so hard.’Encalade said: ‘It’s the unknown things. Even after Katrina, you assessed where you stood. Here you don’t know what your damages are and how long it’s gonna last.’ And he spoke of the Vietnamese refugees and the veterans of the war that made them refugees who had come ...”

“... Herr Doktor, some of the diagnostic highlights: 1. The Family Romance. Shady Prostitute-Mother and Unknown Father. Precocious Sexual Enlightenment. Bernhardt’s mother, an elegant and pragmatic Dutch courtesan called Youle van Hard, trained her daughter from infancy for the life of a grande horizontale. Which is to say, Youle pimped for little Sarah high and ...”

“... hauled yourself out before the attendant rapped on your door. Suicides in Hackney tubs were not unknown. Haggerston Baths, with its soft red brick laid in English bonds, its Portland stone dressing, was a marker for the territory, from the 90-foot chimney stack for coal-fired boilers to the golden galleon that caught the wind as a weathervane. This craft ...”