“... and more isolated and depressed, and fell under the influence of a morbid and manipulative man. Unknown to her family, unmourned by anyone, she killed herself. Since then, not a stick of incense had been lit in her memory. Kaneda asked the spirit: ‘Will you come with me? Do you want me to lead you to the light?’ He took her to the main hall of the ...”

“... coat emerged to remind us of the fact. The phrase ‘You’ll have hud yer tea, then?’ is not unknown in Scotland’s eastern quarter. I didn’t hear it much as a child, being from the other coast, but I knew of it and have always thought it a strange anomaly: the bad-tempered reverse of the nation’s inborn hospitality. This hostess, though, was from ...”

“... as plumped-up and cashed-up as possible. Since a ‘credit crunch’ of this type is by no means unknown – it is in fact a pretty regular feature of financial markets – we may well wonder why Northern Rock had a business model that couldn’t survive one. It seems incredibly stupid. It may be that the Bank of England privately thought so too, and ...”

“... introduced to them. It is in this context that two Americans disembark at Dover, ‘completely unknown . . . amid the completely unknowing’. There are of course other suggestions lurking there, too: of stealth, on the visitors’ part; of unpreparedness, on the part of the home team. You can know, in the sense of being acquainted with, certain social ...”

“... thwarted by an unequal, stratified society to reconcile themselves to a life of menial labour in unknown lands, and an old age spent in religious stupor. Educated, but with no prospects, many young men like Prachanda must have been more than ready to embrace radical ideas about the ways that an entrenched urban elite could be challenged and even overthrown ...”

“... but dim’, ‘highly intelligent’, ‘quasi-cyclist’, ‘cheerful’, ‘unknown quantity’, ‘slick’, ‘interesting’, ‘directionless’ and ‘PR-friendly’. Luntz, whose advice to the Conservatives on the basis of this meeting was upbeat but cryptic (‘Again, focus on reaching voters visually and verbally,’ he ...”

“... pulled out of a planned six-artist show and Sutherland proposed that Bacon, who was quite unknown, should replace him: ‘I should really prefer Francis Bacon for whose work you know I have a really profound admiration … his recent things, while being quite uncompromising, have a grandeur and brilliance which is rarely seen in English art.’ After ...”

“... the year before he died.Once, travelling back from Southend, Channon ‘discussed myself with an unknown man on the train who was unaware of my identity. He said that I was known as being “democratic” and “not a snob” etc in my constituency. I was tempted to get him to put this unorthodox, rather startling, view on paper – since obviously no one ...”

“... expression of gratitude to Maurice Bowra, ‘who in a tutorial on Yeats’s poetry introduced the unknown name of Alexander Blok’. Bowra had made the connection long ago, and we meet yet another set of soldiers out of control.In The Twelve, a poem of 12 sections written in January 1918 – we’re not travelling very far in time – we encounter the Red ...”

“... the majority of experiments on animals (he tells us that the scale of animal experimentation is unknown – although known to be vast – because most animals aren’t even counted; the US Animal Welfare Act, for instance, excludes rats, mice and birds, i.e., the most common experimental subjects).The philosophical leanness of utilitarianism as an ethical ...”

“... married friends to come by, with the idea that they would arrive to find Delmore in bed and an unknown woman slipping into the bathroom. But they couldn’t find anybody to play the other woman, so Gertrude herself took on the role. ‘This was one time when he wasn’t with another woman,’ she told Barrett.Later, Schwartz admitted that the ‘lava flow ...”

“... taken off, but when Graham stepped down as head of Y Combinator he chose, to general shock, the unknown 28-year-old as his successor. Altman was already unfathomably rich, thanks to a venture capital fund he had set up, Hydrazine, which invested in the star graduates from the start-up incubator. To take just one example, he owned 2 per cent of the payment ...”

“... E. Lee. In 1996, introducing an exhibition at the Royal Academy called Gustave Caillebotte: The Unknown Impressionist, the MoMA curator Kirk Varnedoe, along with Marie Berhaut a pioneer of Caillebotte studies in the 1970s (and still his most eloquent interpreter), reckoned that it was ‘inevitable, even if awkward and ultimately less than informative, to ...”

“... in the country are all state enterprises – that gives it a steering capacity over the economy unknown to the White House, and confronts no organised counterweight in Congress, where partisan discipline is minimal compared even to the very low standards in the US legislature. Brazil has always had the least significant party system of any country in South ...”

“... the first historian to discuss the question, remarked that ‘the boundaries of Europe are quite unknown, and no man can say where they end – but it is certain that Europa’ – he is referring to the beauty borne away by Zeus – ‘was an Asiatic, and never even set foot on the land the Greeks now call Europe, only sailing’, on her bull, ‘from ...”