Search Results

“... cave-systems. Hence weather-gods, divine anger and guidance, heaven above and hell below. The unknown is by definition strange and dangerous, and to begin with far exceeds our area of knowledge. As knowledge increases, the unknown – slowly, and most often grudgingly – diminishes. In the European model, we gradually ...”

“... on Sundays, they walk a little ways into the oval spell others are soft on. She, a maid, unknown to terror, rising out of the ridge, its spreading cedars bemused and endearing. The ancestors have never been influenced by any kind of logic, not even a shrike’s, and now I can’t even say what a hornet’s-eye view of this catastrophe might ...”

“... an implicit commentary on the nature and scope of art-historical inquiry. ‘Portrait of an Unknown Man’ (1777) Much of Captain Machell’s cargo consisted of the luggage of travellers who were either still on the Grand Tour or had recently returned home. They had for the most part followed a well-worn route that led through France into ...”

“... paper where the engine raged That once propelled him through the startled sky At a rate of roll unknown to Kittyhawks. Paint, cables, webbing, instruments and guns: Much else is also missing, But the real absence is his, And always was. Hajime is short for ‘Our acquaintanceship begins: Until now, we did not know each other. From this day forth, we ...”

“... one knows its author or origins, and no one can read it. The faded brown script is written in an unknown alphabet that has baffled historians, cryptographers and bibliophiles for nearly six centuries. When Umberto Eco visited Yale’s Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, which has housed the manuscript since the 1960s, it was the only text he asked to ...”

“... he still hung back, Striking and striking as men muscled through Obscuring him, till he became unknown. In the Rain Forest Everything is alive. Everything is giant. The light and dark are giant, even the rain is listing the giants. There are three of us, Jack-size, with our caboclo guide, João, who’s showing us through the rain to things it is so ...”

“... carried the painting in his pocket.The outstanding work of this period is a small portrait of an unknown man, now at the Museo Mandralisca in Cefalù, which was included in both the Milan and New York exhibitions. The man appears to be smiling, but there is something ironic, even mocking, in his expression. The scratch across the mouth and eyes may be the ...”

“... who worked cargo ships out of Marseille, said that to walk the Canebière was a walk into the unknown. Can O’Beer – of course – was how British sailors made the unknown all too familiar. Then I asked about the hardware shops. I had been to Marseille a few times to see its new and old museums, but the Maison ...”

“... and three were given a material bonus of a wristwatch. 2 February 1969: 48 shots were fired at an unknown border violator at the Massante Bridge who was carrying a 3.5-metre wooden plank, which he leaned against the wall and scurried up. His fate is unknown. 10 November 1965: 17 shots were fired at border violator Heinz ...”

“... of land across the north-west of England, was granted a pre-emptive injunction against ‘persons unknown’ in July 2017, preventing interference in the activities of its staff and contractors, before the company had even received permission to start drilling. This was soon followed by further injunctions granted to UK Oil and Gas (UKOG), Cuadrilla, iGAS and ...”

“... at Vevey, Switzerland, to examine the stills and documents for our Thames Television programme Unknown Chaplin, we agreed that if there was one man in the world we did not envy it was David Robinson. He may have chosen a fascinating subject, but to marshal the facts, to make sense of them and to produce a readable and entertaining book was like climbing ...”

“... it bitterly’). It is typical of A.N. Wilson’s insouciance that the death scene in his Love Unknown is the breeziest possible – the abrupt demise of a character merely inserted so that she can be killed off (though not before she can be mocked). These two novels are more conventionally devised than the others, much more of a straightforward ...”

“... science began in earnest in the mid-19th century. ‘The great depths of the ocean are entirely unknown to us,’ Jules Verne declared in 1869, in the early pages of Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea. ‘What passes in those remote depths – what beings live, or can live, twelve or fifteen miles beneath the surface of the waters – what is the ...”

“... blame your brother for having been murdered just because he was driving the streets of Karachi?’ Unknown to the public, there had been a plan to assassinate Musharraf himself in the same period. When the Pearls arrived in Islamabad from their home in Bombay, they probably had little idea of the tension inside the military establishment. In opening the ...”