“... profoundly uncivilised. A sad end indeed to what had begun as a brave and spirited adventure in an unknown land – but not one which was determined, as Ware appears to suggest, by a pre-existing but unarticulated racial horror which emerged in contact with Indians the way a photographic print emerges in contact with developing fluid. Ackroyds disillusion with ...”

“... all their belongings had been packed away, including their mother’s photograph. Instead, an unknown and whiskery great-uncle glared from the frame on the dressing-table. The house was full of bustle without animation, an atmosphere of unrest. They were constantly moved on; they could only sit and read, or play with their Meccano in the thoroughfare of ...”

“... Such wind and weather to the end) Neither becalm’d, nor over-blown, Life’s voyage to the world unknown. Matthew Green, ‘The ...”

“... right words in the right way. Betjeman had no problem either. It came so naturally to him that an unknown contributor to a New Statesman competition was inspired to at least one immortal line by the thought of the Poet Laureate celebrating a coronation procession: ‘Gosh, the flags at C&A!’ It is true that Auden in his maturity, had he been Laureate, would ...”

“... ills of meningitis, tuberculosis, schistosomiasis and dysentery there is now Aids. Apart from the unknown factor which has so far enabled the malaria pathogen to keep one step ahead of human ingenuity, Desowitz disentangles a number of human failings instrumental in the débâcle of the fight against the disease. The culture clash between North and ...”

“... an abyss of religious ignorance, and suggests that there may have been many others, now as then unknown, whom the essential Christian message never reached, either through the Catholic liturgy or by Protestant evangelism. For Duffy, it is indicative of the extraordinary didactic power of the religious plays, and the disastrous catechetical consequences of ...”

“... is universally understood: right-wing parades go down the Champs Elysées, from the tomb of the unknown soldier towards the Jardin des Tuileries and the Louvre; left-wing parades stretch from the site of the Bastille to the Place de la République. Each side has its heroes. Some of these are more or less invented, like the Revolution’s martyred ...”

“... him by a picture he had seen in the Brera at Milan. Till now the picture’s identity has remained unknown, but my colleague Robert Dingley, to whose learning this review is much indebted, has identified it as one by the Russian artist Karl Brullov; it shows, in the sentimental fashion of the time, a series of pathetic incidents during the destruction of ...”

“... by means of her hoax, she has established that a known author gets more respect than an unknown. Well, thanks for telling us. She also wanted to help these said unknowns by demonstrating that even somebody as gifted as herself could, when rendered nameless, be treated with institutional disdain. And, as if all this were not sufficiently ...”

“... Certainly in Ben Jonson’s England such a secular experimental attitude to ethics was virtually unknown. This seems to mean that Gunn’s sympathies with any period before the Enlightenment can never be more than skin-deep. Clive Wilmer calls Gunn ‘this most chaste of modern poets’. He does not have in mind Gunn’s subject-matter (though let’s be ...”

“... if sense is based on reference, intelligible hypotheses cannot reach quite so far into the unknown. But what is reference? When someone uses the word ‘cat’, we do not doubt that we know the kind of thing to which he refers. But what focuses his reference onto that particular species? Nothing, Putnam argues, within the microcosm of the speaker’s ...”

“... the cataract surgeons, the subjects’ private lives are either inviolate, or uninteresting, or unknown (save as may be fallibly deduced from ‘He was unmarried’). The second, smaller class consists mainly of those in the creative arts whose careers stickily attract phrases like ‘he never married, being a homosexual,’ ‘not always ...”

“... a word to anyone, the ingrate abandoned his father and his paternal abode and departed for lands unknown. At first all seemed charming to him; the flowers were of a freshness, the trees of a greenness that he had never seen at home – and then, he saw so many wonders: an animal with a tail larger than its body (it was a squirrel), a little creature that ...”

“... his face is partly obscured, the guy kissing his girlfriend at an airport – location and date unknown – on page 51 of the posthumously compiled Arrivals & Departures – looks incredibly like the young Bob Dylan. He even has a pen in his shirt pocket! During this deranged phase of research I was also struck by the way that Winogrand himself looked, for ...”

“... was in some sense normal’. As if, in the absence of a concept, the idea of midlife angst was unknown. ‘If Catherine lived now, she might well feel (as other women have felt) that her husband’s anger at her had nothing to do with her and a lot to do with his mother. But Catherine, in 1855, could have had no such consoling thought.’ As if, in ...”