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“... sexuality to dazzle a variety of powerful males, not as a means to her own submission. For some unknown medical reason, her childbearing career ended when she was 30, so she was never drained of her health or taken from the centre of events by repeated pregnancies as was Queen Anne herself. And she was one of those women whose energy is actually enhanced by ...”

“... and guaranteed the inviolability of the real bosses whose positions and functions are unknown to us. It wasn’t the Rashidovites or the Churbanovites who appointed shop managers to ministerial posts, but shop managers who elevated and demoted state-party bosses.’ Theirs was a world of absolute authority underpinned by terror: prosecutors who ...”

“... but all to no avail. Their author, commonly known in French as Le Corbeau, the crow, remained unknown. But it was assumed that it must be a member of the Villemin clan, since it was rent with family quarrels, hatreds, jealousies and rumours. Jean-Marie Villemin, who had been more successful in his profession than most of the family (he was foreman in a ...”

“... attractive note to strike in modern feminine dress. It was the look of the working girl, hitherto unknown to fashion. She did it while Paul Poiret was still promoting sumptuous colour and monkey fur, egrets and dramatic drapery, and other designers still aimed to clothe the elegant woman in an air of complexity, difficulty, mystery and obvious ...”

“... purpose, such notions are loath to permeate the tissues, and the wish never to have been born is unknown to our organs and our senses.’ Presumably the wish never to have been born is known, at least moodily, to our minds, or some of them, and these may rehearse the wish to the point of making it habitual; then, the temptation to suicide is felt. Up to that ...”

“... academic norms that one might today expect to find in a comparably ambitious work by an unknown lecturer in his late thirties. In retrospect, its central concern can now be seen to have formed part of a quite general but historically specific theme: the ‘entry into society’ of the old urban working class. A certain effort of historical ...”

“... programme featuring a slow-motion 50-minute ‘symphony’ by a dissident composer whose name was unknown outside his native Poland. In that twilight era before General Jaruzelski retired for ever behind his sunglasses, Krzysztof Penderecki was still the foremost musical representative of official Poland, while the strictly unofficial Lutoslawski was, for ...”

“... choice in a growing woman’s life: to leave family (as the word implies, the familiar) for the unknown and unfamiliar’. But here, Warner’s Euhemerism flattens her vision. Whatever the story of Beauty and the Beast is about, it must also be about beasts (indeed, about supernatural beasts), about our tangled relationships with animals and our love-hate ...”

“... is now said to have shaken his entourage but from which no one, apparently, could dissuade him. An unknown aide tells a story, quoted by Yergin and Gustafson, of Gorbachev arguing vigorously to a foreign business delegation that socialism was alive and curable and, when they left, continuing his argument to his aides. ‘We couldn’t figure out why he kept ...”

“... trust he soon entered its employ, undertaking a secret mission in England whose nature remains unknown to this day. While abroad, however, Hamann began leading what he later called a shamefully dissolute life, which eventually drove him into a deep spiritual crisis and psychological collapse. He left his job and, on 13 March 1758, locked himself in a cheap ...”

“... with the life of royal courts. Fisticuffs, bear-baiting, getting falling-down drunk, assaulting unknown passers-by in vicious pranks – these anti-capitalist and anti-urban modes of behaviour were to be got rid of, in the middle class and even in the working classes. The working classes were experiencing large social changes, including the breakdown of the ...”

“... bowl. London-Oxford-Cambridge. Undark had unearthed their quest. And offered something more: the unknown. He did not understand, this new destination was illegitimate. The wrong shape.’ Our three pointers, as you can see, are now, thanks to Undark, in the process of becoming four. But let us hold the psycho-geographical patternings, folding and unfolding ...”

“... of New Caledonia, 14 July will be marked by a pop concert by Johnny Clegg, ‘le Zoulou blanc’ (unknown in Britain, where, as a South African, he is banned from TV, but bigger than Springsteen or Michael Jackson in France). What would Danton have thought of the Revolution being commemorated by a left-wing South African singing Zulu rock in the South ...”

“... clash of stress with quantity produced difficulties – and sometimes metrical pleasures – unknown in Greek. By the time of Virgil the Romans had become accustomed to the Homeric hexameter, but it must still have felt grandly artificial, faintly alien. Horace’s Alcaics, Sapphics and the like, meanwhile, were, because newly adapted, vividly Greek. So ...”

“... draw on both published and manuscript sources for Eliot’s writing, including many that would be unknown except for Ricks’s commandingly wide reading in and around Eliot’s literary and philosophical contexts. In the notes for the single 16-line poem ‘Silence’, for instance, Ricks refers, with entire relevance, to the following authors and ...”