“... handy, too – kitchen boys, black slaves; no one is secure, for the King himself, his royalty unknown, has made a cuckold of a demon, while the demon slept like still grass through the transports of his accomplished wife’s newest adultery. In order to avoid being deceived a second time, King Shahriyar decides to marry for one night only, devouring, like ...”

“... he owned and no doubt studied a score of Parsifal; if we could study his musical sketches (another unknown treasure of Sant’Agata) we might learn a good deal more about his progress as a composer. His early operas were sometimes blatant in their scoring; nearly all of them contain extraordinary inventions that herald the flexibility of the late works, a ...”

“... moment by the intervention of Burke, who set himself to sponsor the work of the impoverished and unknown author. Burke’s support led to the support of others, and climaxed in the publication of his excellent work The Village (1783), which Johnson himself condescended to praise. Crabbe’s success led to his ordination and to the support of the powerful ...”

“... if conservative account of her American years in Verna Coleman’s Miles Franklin in America: Her Unknown (Brilliant) Career (1981). By contrast, her years in London during World War One and in the Twenties are thinly documented. But it is already clear that, in England as in America, it was the international feminist network which nurtured her. On ...”

“... strove to match the glory of their Lagondas, Delages, Bugattis and Hispano-Suizas. Standards unknown to the present age were observed. Those of us who sailed to and from America packed four or six in a tiny cabin, all strangers, fought into our dinner jackets every night, even in tourist class. Compare the noble scene in the tourist dining saloon with ...”

“... the Italians introduced was state intervention in agriculture, and imports of grain, more or less unknown before then. The Simien mountains are young (about 300,000 years old), which apparently accounts for their uncanny shapes, irregular and pointing straight upwards like impossibly thin menhirs, or wavering like doubtful fingers. They provide much of the ...”

“... 1917. Analogous examples could be taken from the years before the Russian Revolution. Nor was it unknown for Stalin to give practical expression to his disagreements with Lenin. Slusser describes the anti-Lenin position assumed by Stalin in the Bolshevik Central Committee in March 1917 (when the articles Lenin was writing were censored by its ...”

“... scepticism about whatever seems probable or apparent, and it encourages credulity about the unknown or unprovable: ‘It was on the nevertheless principle,’ Mrs Spark went on to say, ‘that I turned Catholic.’ The oblique fictions informed by this principle are stalked by the sense of a contradictory voice. These are fictions, written by a woman ...”

“... and self-questioning. Like so many others he died and disappeared, his work now virtually unknown except to a few fellow bibliophiles: had he lived, he would probably have disappeared in any case into middle-aged obscurity, the state of resignation which, as he found of war, becomes existence for most people. Few if any of these ‘lost ...”

“... characters in the story are determined by the presence of a letter, a signifier whose contents are unknown. Lacan repeatedly emphasises the extent to which we are dominated by the presence of such signifiers. This is a way of thinking that has no room for notions of ‘objective reality’ or ‘autonomous ego’. At the heart of the subject there isn’t ...”

“... unassuming remarks. Ekman hyperbolically calls this edition ‘as far as I can tell … virtually unknown’, but it was reprinted six times between 1890 and 1921, and again by Pickering in 1987. It is this edition, collated against Darwin’s manuscript notes (some of which were mislaid by Francis) and with extensive additional apparatus, on which Ekman has ...”

“... collected, which is fine for biographers, but these ephemera are also published as if they were unknown fragments of the Upanishads. No More is a minimal bilingual text with the two versions separated by an afterword which asserts that the book is ‘a door opened on infinity’: 16 February Odd that I still love you even when I don’t love you 19 ...”

“... by grafting.’ The motives of converts were highly varied: those of missionaries going off into unknown lands were marginally less so. Patrick’s first acquaintance with Ireland was as a prisoner of war, as was that of Ulfilas with the Goths. Anskar’s arrival in Denmark came about because his host had been a political exile and took the apostle back with ...”

“... emancipation of women and to an African ideal of human worth, ‘moral and material misery’ are unknown on the continent ‘to the present day’. Howe admits that most bookshops contain a shelf or two of similarly crazy stuff: texts about the lost wisdom of ancient civilisations, myths of racial origin drawing on Masonic and Egyptian materials, stories of ...”

“... of imperfect recording? Was syphilis born in Naples in 1493, or had it simply arrived from some unknown elsewhere, perhaps with Columbus from America? Advocates of the ‘natural transfer’ hypothesis, including Luc Montagnier and Robert Gallo, credited as the discoverers of HIV, have assumed that Aids was an old disorder which became subject to the ...”