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“... attitude to new building. One supposed clash, on compounding with offenders by fine, was not unknown in the practice of the City Lands Committee, which made the same kind of distinction as did the Crown between ‘rich’ and ‘poor’ developers, permitting the former to fine while demolishing the buildings of the ‘poorer sort’. It was not the ...”

“... When I put out of mind our vanity, Treating shadows as if they were solid things.’ In 1917, an unknown American poet living in England brought out his first volume of poetry, a collection full of ironic echoes of the past and quotations from past masters, not one of which could be taken at its face value; indeed, it was difficult to know where the face or ...”

“... and is certainly having a quarter-century in North America. At present it is virtually unknown anywhere else. Stephen Braude very carefully and very rightly distances himself from questions of reality. He does believe that multiple personality is, in any practical sense of the word, a ‘real’ enough condition, but he says he is concerned with ...”

“... not ours) like the right to shelter and the right to work, had been eroded. Petty crime, almost unknown in 1983, was a daily occurrence; a division between the haves and have-nots was apparent; a black market in currency was flourishing; corruption was visible at every level, and even foreigners needed influence to get things done. Some of these things are ...”

“... to believe that they could be a danger to their patients. Needless to say, puerperal fever was unknown in home births using midwives. A young Victorian noblewoman who developed a bulge in her abdomen was declared pregnant by physicians who did not feel free to examine her beyond the point of ascertaining that she was a virgin. Virginity was apparently no ...”

“... with the result that self-interest governed ‘the results of our studies unconsciously and unknown to us’. Since inter-subjective experience had been fragmented by sin, the only solution was to abandon the idea that ‘science grew up from one homogeneous human consciousness’ and ‘that nothing but learning and ability determined whether you could ...”

“... And he got married. Trollope’s bride, Rose Heseltine, is what Hall aptly calls ‘the great unknown in Trollope’s life’. Although she lived until l917, only two photographs of Rose are known to survive. It is Mullen who tries hardest to pierce the obscurity, and to establish Rose’s ‘true importance in the life of her husband’. Mullen’s ...”

“... not cited in Schaberg – he wrote that the first response to Zarathustra I had come from an unknown person in prison. ‘This very first reader had a feeling what this is about: about the long-promised “Antichrist”. Since Voltaire there has been no such assault on Christianity – and in truth, even Voltaire did not have an inkling that one could ...”

“... dumbfounded. Was Mr Hunter down there somewhere? Or had he ended up in some other, completely unknown place? We went out of the cemetery without closing the gate, careful to leave everything as it had been. Mr Hunter was right, I thought; it didn’t make any difference. And yet it ...”

“... mist and scepticism: the idea grown sublime, pale, northerly, Königsbergian’);4) unattained, unknown, hence no duty (‘cockcrow of positivism’); 5) useless: ‘let us abolish it! (Broad daylight breakfast)’; 6) ‘what world is left? the apparent world perhaps? ... But no! with the real world we have also abolished the apparent ...”

“... similar offences under the Children Act. For six months or so, Daniel Handley’s whereabouts were unknown. He was yet another missing child, and most people had given up hope of ever finding him, or of ever finding him well. They weren’t to be proved wrong on the last bit. The boy’s body, still clad in his red boiler suit, was found in a wooded area ...”

“... on the run from the militia, and I tell him about Orr’s ‘Donegore Hill’, a brilliant, almost unknown political poem which describes the ‘unco throuither squath’ery’ – the hurrying disorganised crowd – that went into battle in 1798. In the evening we drive out to a moss – a bog – near Slemish, the mountain where St Patrick is said to have ...”

“... out unnoticed. The Codex Regius of Eddic poetry, greatest memorial of Northern literature, lay unknown to the rest of the world in an Icelandic farmhouse for some four hundred years till Bishop Brynjólfur Sveinsson acquired it in 1643. Then the news began, slowly, to leak out. The OED records ‘Viking’ as a word first used in 1807, and it had been well ...”

“... with the elemental fire of flatulence. It was an awful curry. Why else would two internationally unknown poets, in Galway to recite our internationally unheard of poems, the guests of the Cuirt Festival of Literature, be talking about the implications of the invention of the flush toilet and about its inventor, that dismal man whose name shall for ever be ...”

“... of his mouth. The eyes behind the pince-nez are sly and a bit roguish.’ (A widower, he kept an unknown mistress in Namur.) Yourcenar remarks: ‘I cannot say that I heard the cry of blood when I looked at that photo; in short, it is not the image of a man who would rain blows on someone weak or impaired.’ Nevertheless, it may be that this personable ...”