“... for his own people, but the transmission of it to Continental Europe, where English remained an unknown tongue. Latin could get you an international reputation there, as achieved for instance by Elizabeth Jane Weston, ‘The Maid of England’, whose poetry – on her emotions, her life, on poverty and on the floods in Prague – won her a European ...”

“... eight novels. Heath, a Guyanese writer, has now produced a remarkable body of work yet is still unknown in America. He is virtually unknown in Britain, where he has lived and written for the last twenty years – in spite of having won the Guardian’s fiction prize for his novel The Murderer, and in spite of years of ...”

“... autonomous and powerful tribe, a warlike and nomadic people who appeared from the East at an unknown date, driven by a scorching silence, and who, from the seventh to the tenth century, settled in the land between two seas, the Caspian and the Black’. As a nation, the Khazars no longer exist, and ceased to do so during the tenth century after ‘their ...”

“... patch of yellow wall painted with such skill and refinement by an artist destined to be forever unknown and barely identified under the name of Vermeer. All these obligations which have no sanction in our present life seem to belong to a different world, a world based on kindness, scrupulousness, self-sacrifice, a world entirely different from this one and ...”

“... bulk of the population occurs in an individual who also suffers from a genetic disease, due to an unknown misprint that you are trying to detect. If the disease and the harmless misprint are inherited together, there is a likelihood that the latter occurs on the same chromosome as the misprint responsible for the disease. This can be a clue to guide the ...”

“... sensible ram-raider or child-strangler is careful to wear a suit in the dock; and a suit is not unknown at a terrorist’s funeral. It has been an instructive story. For general urban wear, the lounge or business suit dates from about 1900, after which tail coats were reserved for more formal occasions. The suit survived the clerkly associations of paper ...”

“... nowhere to go to and nowhere to return to, the past wiped out by horror, the future a terrifying unknown. While the Simon family in Heimat go peacefully about their lives, Isidor, one of Primo Levi’s partisans, is watching the SS, ‘boys themselves, only a little older than he, clubbing his father, mother and sister to death’, and apparently ‘having ...”

“... working parties and as camp administrators faced demands on their courage and adroitness largely unknown to other ranks. They had either to drive and cajole their own men into docile submission to enemy orders or to find a whole camp subjected to savage punishment if they hung back. In that long holiday from moral responsibility that imprisonment generally ...”

“... estimated at 250,000 for each broadcast on Radio 4 and 150,000 for each repeat on Radio 3, with an unknown number of further listeners on the Overseas Service. His reasoned approach and fluent, non-academic prose went down well. Although modest by comparison with the number of viewers who watch a popular television programme, by any other standards the size of ...”

“... proposed in the claimed spirit of the welfare state:       that our soul and ourselves are unknown yet unconsciously known in the union between people. I find The Infant and the Pearl most interesting where it is also most openly problematic: namely, in its engagement with tradition and received symbolism. Oliver’s poem is pointedly ambivalent in ...”

“... might have something to do with his imaginings, which ‘bodied forth the forms of things unknown’, giving them a shape, a name and a durable engraved image. Now imagine an animal called the Megatherium. Unless you’re a biologist of the right sort, that’s going to be harder. In all likelihood, you’ll never have seen, or even heard of, such ...”

“... was arrested in Rome, detained in the Fossoli camp, and deported in 1944 towards his death in an unknown time and place. Jansen tells the narrator the ‘truth that we intuit but hide from ourselves because we don’t care or because we are afraid: a brother, a double is dead instead of us in an unknown time and place, and ...”

“... of their elements must have existed in Basque folklore, yet it appears that they were previously unknown in at least one of the affected communities. Certainly they were spread by a variety of means, including news from the French side of the border, the auto-da-fé held by the Inquisition at Logroño, and the preaching of local priests and monks. The French ...”

“... facilitated by organisations critical of the Soviet regime, have an unexpected antecedent. In Dear Unknown Friend, Alexis Peri takes us back to the 1940s and 1950s to uncover an earlier history of letter-writing across the Cold War division. The epistolary friendships she traces were not illicit, but arranged and encouraged by Soviet state institutions, and ...”

“... needed the presence of such fear – about one’s personal security, the economic crisis, the unknown – that it would provide them with the margin of time and planning, and the needed passivity, to develop what they regarded as the only solution to leftist terrorism: extermination. This is not far-fetched. While ‘the situation’ evolved towards ...”