Use unknown in a sentence
Sentences ending with unknown
- Mrs. Francis Armour was stepping from the known to the unknown. [11]
- The common people usually shirked the trouble of filtering it, and it was among them that the greater number died of a mortal and infectious pestilence, till then unknown. [10]
- The danger was unknown. [4]
- It was the unexpected realization of the fact that he still valued life as presented to him in the form of his love for Natasha, and a last, though ultimately vanquished, attack of terror before the unknown. [2]
- She yielded herself to the witchery of the hour, the sheer delight of forthfaring into the unknown. [9]
- The words were those of Master Walther von der Vogelweirde, and were as follows: "True love is neither man nor maid, No body hath nor yet a soul, Nor any semblance here below, Its name we hear, itself unknown. [10]
- She stared into the unknown. [13]
- The tragic and the ridiculous here joining hands, she remembered that Reggie Farwell had told her that he had recently made a trip to western New York to inspect a house he had built for a "remarried" couple who were not wholly unknown. [9]
- Pollux will be the first among his fellow-artists, and it has been my privilege to discover this new star--the eighth artist whose merit I have detected while he was still unknown. [10]
- Paint, literature, science, statesmanship, history, professorship, law, morals,--these are all represented here, yet crime is substantially unknown. [5]
Short sentences using unknown
- Advertising and other expenses--cost unknown. [5]
Sentences containing unknown two or more times
- The chief philologist, Professor Woodlouse, maintained that they were writings, done in a character utterly unknown to scholars, and in a language equally unknown. [5]
- A startling reminder of this is furnished by the fact that in Fiji, twenty years ago, were living two strange and solitary beings who came from an unknown country and spoke an unknown language. [5]
More example sentences with the word unknown in them
- Arriving in New York, November 19, 1867, Mark Twain found himself no longer unknown to the metropolis, or to any portion of America. [5]
- He was as yet unknown beyond the circle of his friends, and he did not seek society. [6]
- Was she indeed writing to this unknown gentleman? [6]
- He was still working on the Call when it was written, and contributing literary articles to the Californian, of which Bret Harte, unknown to fame, was editor. [5]
- How feverishly she worked, unknown to him, he never guessed; so carefully and unobtrusively planted her suggestions that they were born again in glory as his inspiration. [9]
- So large a work as the "History of the Rise of the Dutch Republic," offered for the press by an author as yet unknown to the British public, could hardly expect a warm welcome from the great dealers in literature as merchandise. [6]
- There was now within him a judge who by some rule unknown to him decided what should or should not be done. [2]
- They all gazed with the same dissatisfied and inquiring expression at this stout man in a white hat, who for some unknown reason threatened to trample them under his horse's hoofs. [2]
- The ceremonies began with the kindling of the council fire,--a rite handed down through unknown centuries of Indian usage. [9]
- He went out with a company from Hawkeye to the war, and was not wanting in courage, but he would have been a better soldier if he had been less engaged in contrivances for circumventing the enemy by strategy unknown to the books. [5]
- According to Mr. Wilton's statement of the seventy-six appointments we examined, fifty-four were of Democrats, eleven of Whigs, and eleven of unknown politics. [7]
- Had this love which had come to her brought her any nearer to the unknown realm of light she craved?... [9]
- In this silence, which emphasized the quaking of the earth and air, there was a sense of unknown, impending disaster. [4]
- The time came when the positions of the first-named celebrated publisher and the unknown writer were reversed. [6]
- Mandeville and I were talking of the unknown people, one rainy night by the fire, while the Mistress was fitfully and interjectionally playing with the piano-keys in an improvising mood. [4]
- Grant and Sherman were living there before the Civil War, and Abraham Lincoln was an unknown lawyer in the neighboring state of Illinois. [9]
- Then Herr Ueberhell went back to his search for the unknown element which had given to his son's elixir the power that had been exhibited in such wonderful fashion. [10]
- What if he went away--ever so far away, into unknown countries beyond the seas--and never came back any more! [5]
- You know me well, fear is unknown to me--but I feel great anxiety. [10]
- The Literary Gazette was uncertain as to whether it was safe to praise an unknown author. [14]
- How Mr. Jason was to be rewarded by the land company's left-hand, unknown, to the land company's right hand, became a problem worthy of a genius. [9]
- But the night was dark, the country unknown to me, and heavily wooded and mountainous. [9]
- But Miss Lucretia was content to wait, and guessed at many things which Cynthia did not tell her, and made some personal effort, unknown to Cynthia, to find out other things. [9]
- Art to him was an unknown book, but he had the instinct, and he was quick to feel. [11]
- Susan and Jane, waiting to give her comfort when she was recovered a little from this unknown but overwhelming affliction, were fain to stand mute when they saw her to pay a silent deference to one whom sorrow had lifted far above them and transfigured. [9]
- It is a very grave responsibility which these unknown correspondents throw upon their chosen counsellors. [6]
- Then the vision vanished, and was followed by a long series of unknown wars, murders, and massacres. [5]
- He came heavily up from the barn-yard, mopping his red face and forehead, and now and again raising his hand to shade his eyes, concerned to see the unknown visitors, whose horse and buggy were in the stable-yard. [11]
- I sat there until ten o'clock talking to the real Mr. Cheyne, a human Mr. Cheyne unknown in the lecture-room. [9]
- Neither were flags unknown to the Greeks. [10]
- He was as unknown to the dwellers at Wandenong as they were to him, or he again to the citizens of the moon. [11]
- At his fireside, unknown to my grandfather and to Mr. Allen, I had learned the true principles of government. [9]
- Years of trial unknown to me had left an ennobling mark upon her features, increasing their power an hundred fold. [9]
- No system was unknown to him, and though no one ever knew of his troubling himself particularly to study, he nevertheless was master of many departments of learning. [10]
- Nerves were things unknown to her: she was granite, Janet tempered steel. [9]
- In ways quite unknown to her he had made her life easier for her. [11]
- Here was the unknown and the perilous. [13]
- Allen at Asquith unknown and harmless. [9]
- At this point, under most circumstances, I would close the doors and draw the veil of privacy before the chamber where the birth which we call death, out of life into the unknown world, is working its mystery. [6]
- Sundowners are as uncertain as they are unknown quantities. [11]
- An unknown and unaccredited person cannot, get into that place; and it seemed apparent from the generous supply of warning and protective and prohibitory signs that were posted all about, that not even the known and accredited can steal diamonds there without inconvenience. [5]
- The Cure had told his brother the story, and had been met by a keen, astonished interest in the unknown man on Vadrome Mountain. [11]
- When I came to the relation of the affairs which occurred at Les Iles five years before and told his Excellency that Mrs. Temple had since been living in the Rue Bourbon as Mrs. Clive, unknown to her son, the Baron broke in upon me. [9]
- Smith, our President, to the Falls, to the little Powhatan, where, unknown to me, he sold me to him for a town called Powhatan; and, leaving me with him, the little Powhatan, he made known to Capt. [4]
- There was, needless to say, great excitement in Leith over Mr. Crewe's proposed venture into the unknown seas of politics. [9]
- He immediately begins to put out his moral feelers into the unknown and the infinite to discover what sort of an existence this is into which he has come. [4]
- Mr. Bixby, unknown to me, of course, sent somebody down to the forecastle with some mysterious instructions to the leadsmen, another messenger was sent to whisper among the officers, and then Mr. Bixby went into hiding behind a smoke-stack where he could observe results. [5]
- I ought not to have crossed her path again, even unknown to her. [11]
- Such variations appear to arise from the same unknown causes acting on the cerebral organisation, which induce slight variations or individual differences in other parts of the body; and these variations, owing to our ignorance, are often said to arise spontaneously. [1]
- Privately, and unknown to any one, I painted my great picture, "Heidelberg Castle Illuminated"--my first really important work in oils--and had it hung up in the midst of a wilderness of oil-pictures in the Art Exhibition, with no name attached to it. [5]
- I was unknown to a great number of the men of both villages, and familiar with but very few-- chiefly those with whom I had a gossiping acquaintance. [11]
- In the brief time in which he had seen her and this other man, Austen's quickened perceptions had detected tacit understanding, community of interest, a habit of thought and manner,--in short, a common language, unknown to him, between the two. [9]
- It acts sometimes through the senses, sometimes through the imagination, sometimes through an unknown channel. [6]
- He was only thirteen years old, but he was a true Greylock, and fear and cowardice were as unknown to him as to his ancestor, Wendelin I. [10]
- Historians of the third class assume that the will of the people is transferred to historic personages conditionally, but that the conditions are unknown to us. [2]
- I thought that they would comfort you, and teach you to love the sublime Being whose exemplary life and pathetic death are no longer unknown to you, since Johanna told you the tale. [10]
- Not one of these was famous in the great world; some were almost unknown beyond their own immediate circle. [3]
- The nature of these differences is unknown, but they relate more especially to the reproductive system, and much less so to external structure or to ordinary differences in constitution. [1]
- They are right, these delicious unknown friends of mine, in reminding me of a fact which I cannot gainsay and might suffer to pass from my recollection. [6]
- Perhaps one of these days a great Yankee shall come, who will easily do the unknown deed. [6]
- The blessing of the viaticum is unknown to them. [6]
- The reference to the unfortunate Mr. Blodgett, after taking his breath away, aroused in him an intense curiosity betraying, as it did, a certain knowledge of past events in his life in the hitherto unknown daughter of Augustus interest could she have in him? [9]
- And these are the two men who were unknown when the war began. [9]
- Bickersteth saw that the travail and strife had drained life and energy, and that he must not press the mind and vitality of this exile of time and the unknown too far. [11]
- In military affairs the strength of an army is the product of its mass and some unknown x. [2]
- The hero upon the reviewing stand with the halo of the Unknown behind his head is one thing; the lady of Family who sits beside you at a boarding-house and discusses the weather and the journey is quite another. [9]
- On Saturday evening the Reverend Chauncy Fairweather received a note which was left at his door by an unknown person who departed without saying a word. [6]
- It is true, the promises I have made are unknown to any but Ambulinia, and I think it unnecessary to here enumerate them, as they who promise the most generally perform the least. [5]
- These appearances, on the other hand, are intelligible, at least to a large extent, if man is the co-descendant with other mammals of some unknown and lower form. [1]
- She also felt the necessity--a necessity totally unknown to such a nature as Carmen's--of making compensation, of compounding for her pleasures. [4]
- This law: that the merit of every great unknown and neglected artist must and will be recognised and his pictures climb to high prices after his death. [5]
- When, finally, in the Kanopic way, close in front of Seleukus's house, a youth unknown to him cried, scornfully, as the chariot was slowly making its way through the throng, "The brother-in-law of Tarautas! [10]
- To think that the hiding-place for his liquor was the unused, almost unknown, cellar of that very church, built a hundred years before as a refuge from the Indians, which he had reached by digging a tunnel from the shore to its secret passage! [11]
- A current from the great store that was in her, pent up and all unknown, ran through him, and then she had struggled out of his arms and fled, leaving him standing alone in the parlor. [9]
- The weight of the earth is found by comparing a mass of known lead with that of a mass of unknown lead. [5]
- He heard all the directions, and carried away the papers, but he also carried away something else unknown to the broker. [4]
- He had disbanded the corps, but he had not given up the arms, and, for reasons unknown, the Government had not pressed the point, so far as the world knew. [11]
- For, after all, the captain was but twenty-one and I nineteen, and the distinguished unknown at least fifty. [9]
- He had learned that, besides the woman who had given him her heart and inspired him with a passion hitherto unknown, he had wedded two others. [10]
- I now learn that this very mimosa (Acacia farnesiana) originates in tropical America, and was undoubtedly unknown in ancient Egypt. [10]
- She had reached that stage of education in which the vast domain of the unknown opens its illimitable expanse before the eyes of the student. [6]
- It turns out that Mr Garland has had no character with Kit, no recommendation of him but from his own mother, and that he was suddenly dismissed by his former master for unknown reasons. [12]
- We know, however, that many strange and strongly-marked peculiarities of structure occasionally appear in our domesticated productions, and if their unknown causes were to act more uniformly, they would probably become common to all the individuals of the species. [1]
- He soon discovered that his light was seen burning late into the night, that he was neglecting his natural rest, and always busy with some unknown task, not called for in his routine of duty or legitimate study. [6]
- It was natural that he should look at it, unknown to Barbara. [12]
- It was believed that for once Whiteman's presence was unknown in the town and his expedition unsuspected. [5]
- Don't flatter yourself that any article of yours is rejected because you are unknown to fame. [6]
- When I had ten men able to go abroad, our commonwealth was very strong: with such a number I ranged that unknown country 14 weeks: I had but 18 to subdue them all. [4]
- He also pulls teeth, with an ease and expedition hitherto unknown, and is in no want of patients among this open-mouthed crowd. [4]
- I was not surprised at those who read "Jane Eyre" being deeply interested in it; but I hardly expected that a book by an unknown author could find readers. [14]
- Had he been sure that hers was estranged he would have dashed away again, after having revealed his whole soul to his father, and risked the ride into unknown regions to seek Moses. [10]
- Day after day, Sunday after Sunday, they read only what this unknown person selects for them. [4]
- Many times this strange rider, at once well known and unknown, had escaped pursuers by matchless riding. [13]
- But Mavra Kuzminichna stood at the closed gate for some time with moist eyes, pensively swaying her head and feeling an unexpected flow of motherly tenderness and pity for the unknown young officer. [2]
- Mr. Vandewaters now startled her by quoting suddenly lines from an English poet unknown to her. [11]
- But the exact stage of disillusionment she had reached in regard to Eldon Parr was unknown to him, and he feared that a further revelation might possibly sever the already precarious tie between father and daughter. [9]
- A gentleman was speaking, who was, as my unknown next neighbor told me, Sir Michael Hicks-Beach, a leading member, as we all know, of the opposition. [6]
- I dwell in spaces vague, remote, unknown, Save to the silent few, who, leaving earth, Quit all communion with their living time. [6]
- These are the South Downs, from which comes the famous mutton known all over England, not unknown at the table of our Saturday Club and other well-spread boards. [6]
- Referred in a sort of casual way--and yet significant way--to 'the fact that the life policy in its simplest form is unknown in Lake Providence--they take out a mosquito policy besides. [5]
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