| 单词 | unknown |
| 例句 | For a moment she looks like someone I don’t know, a stranger, shining with unknown, good possibilities. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z But I eventually came to understand that it’s about embracing the flexibility and possibility of the unknown. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z Things slithered, hissed, and cackled in the great unknown. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z He pulled out a burnet leaf and ate it slowly, concealing his fear as best he could; for all his instincts were warning him of the dangers in the unknown country beyond the warren. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z My mother graciously thanked the unknown benefactor, saying, “Too good. Cost too much.” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z The inner workings of the duck are unknown, despite various attempts to construct replicas. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Mama and Baba had been taken away by ambulance because of some unknown disease. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z Others had had laryngectomies, or else defective hearing, or learning disabilities, or for an unknown reason had begun speaking much later than was normal. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Still, I reason, this sudden removal to an unknown state is not all that different from the kinds of dislocations that routinely segment the lives of the truly poor. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Ranofer whirled in a panic to stare behind him and above him, at the same time stumbling back away from the unknown object near the wall. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z The caller ID showed “unknown” and she thought it might be a call from her parents in Nigeria. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z So many words were still unknown that when the butcher or the lady at the drugstore said something to me, exotic polysyllabic sounds would bloom in the midst of their sentences. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Then he began to chant softly in a slow tongue unknown to the Elf and Dwarf; yet they listened, for there was a strong music in it. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z I watched the flashing past of cotton fields and cabins, feeling that I was moving into the unknown. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Venkat slapped an unknown technician on the back while Bruce pumped his fist in the air. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z I was thunderstruck, for such a thing as a patient getting of his own accord into the Superintendent’s study is almost unknown. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z He was aware of the other players around him, hel- meted and grotesque, creatures from an unknown world. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Many shunned him; a few nodded, and handed him their weapons; he rubbed the unguent on the stock and muzzle, all the while whispering to the firearm coaxingly in some unknown tongue. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z “Okay, Joe,” he whispered, as if he could talk to the unknown person he’d heard his mother argue with on the phone in the middle of the night, right before she went away. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z “I don’t think our little country cousin is acquainted with any radicals, known or unknown.” Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z In an unknown ocean they could determine their latitude, but not their longitude, by observing, night after night, the position of the constellations with respect to the horizon. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z During lunch period, I got called to the principal’s office, where I sat for twenty minutes and worried about the unknown emergency. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z He is right about that: the virus was then unknown to science, and as few as two or three not-visibly-sick animals could have started the outbreak. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Just thinking about the miles and miles of watery unknown sent a shiver down Jinny’s spine. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z I had never considered it might happen at night, with so many foreigners from unknown countries. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z I should be worried about some unknown dudes seeing me in my pajamas, but that’s the beauty of sleeping in tanks and basketball shorts. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z With half my head hidden, my mouth appeared strange and unknown even to me. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z That unknown person probably stood in line for an injection just ahead of the schoolteacher. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I can’t help but be a little intrigued by his unknown quotient. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z It pleases me to think I’m communing with her, this unknown woman. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z He commissioned the unknown, untested Igor Stravinsky to provide music for one of the new ballets, The Firebird. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z The regime of the Voluntary Farms is a fairly recent thing, limited to one country of the planet and literally unknown elsewhere. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z That unknown was the only reason I continued to fence. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z In the first days of September, some unknown person who probably lived somewhere to the south of the Ebola River perhaps touched something bloody. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z A dassie screamed as it was killed by some unknown predator in the dark. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z In the middle of the night the unknown creature came out of its hiding place and whisked its long antennae over Nhamo’s legs. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Why wasn’t more time in school spent studying things that were unknown or not understood instead of things that had already been discovered and explained? Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z Plus, there was the fear of the unknown— I still didn’t understand why Cherry’s attorney had contacted me. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z The muffled drums now beating, now steadily rolling, spread a dead silence upon the air, a prayer tor the unknown soldier. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z The expedition had discovered the hard way that in this part of the unexplored Amazon jungle, for some reason unknown to them, food was scarce. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z As Franklin and many others noted, Indian life—not only among the Haudenosaunee, but throughout the Northeast—was characterized by a level of personal autonomy unknown in Europe. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Hence it’s not surprising that climbers are typically wary of joining forces with those whose bona fides are unknown to them. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z She had thought her uniform would protect her as she crossed unknown territory. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Though unknown at the time, Seward still lived. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z I looked at that manse, now a bedding-place for the Parliamentary Army, its interiors unknown to me after a life of confinement there. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z And when that modest milestone flashes past, or at some other point thereabouts, for reasons unknown your atoms will shut you down, silently disassemble, and go off to be other things. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z But still, in the midst of the unknown, she has hopes and dreams. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z I can’t decide which offer is the better one, because I don’t know which is the more frightening unknown: the captain’s adventures, or life ashore. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z Find two known points—he’ll choose the cathedral spire and the outer island of Le Petit Be—then calculate the location of the third and unknown point. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z All the strain of trying to make friends with Hooper and failing, of anticipating his cunning, all the fear of the unknown traps he might lay, would be gone. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z And it can be, is, simply because it's unknown. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z He said that reading a poem by an unknown member of our school was the same as reading a classic poem by a dead poet. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z By the early 1940s, biochemists had broken cells apart to reveal their chemical constituents and identified various molecules in living systems—but the molecule that carried the code of heredity was still unknown. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z It was like a single equation with two unknowns. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Teotihuacan fell in the eighth century for reasons yet unknown, but left an enduring mark in central Mexico. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Earlier in the evening Sam had confirmed that the photograph of the unknown hiker faxed down from Alaska was indeed Chris, but the coroner in Fairbanks required Chris’s dental records to make a conclusive identification. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z It was not, of course, unknown: Christianity, after all, was named after Christ. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z They dug in one spot, then another, moving each time their shovels hit the coffins of unknown relatives buried with no markers. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z In algebra, you can solve an equation when you have 1 unknown variable. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z It was too dark to make out clearly, but odd lights flashed from an unknown source, revealing blurs of silver spikes and glistening flesh. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z For some unknown reason, however, no Sherpas left the South Col ahead of us on the night of May 9. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z Then—this was starting to get embarrassing—a sergeant responding to the incident failed to secure a gate and had liquid of an unknown nature thrown in his face. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z And then the answer that always runs through my neurons and neurochips: unknown. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z At the end of the hall the floor vanished and fell to an unknown depth. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Kingshaw had thought he was going to hit or kick him, and his mind had groped round desperately for the reason, trying to remember some terrible, unknown wrong he must have committed. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z It was a cutting from the Daily Prophet: Investigations continue into the break-in at Gringotts on 31 July, widely believed to be the work of Dark wizards or witches unknown. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z The shaky footing of every new word, an unknown territory to struggle through letter by letter. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z It looked like chaos at first—buildings and homes and roadways and other unknown structures all jostling for this tiny parcel of forty-nine square miles. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z It was as if because of their train meeting years ago, they could bypass several steps, ignore several unknowns, and slide into an immediate intimacy. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z It was too convenient a way to explain the unknown. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z The whole idea was to lose our bearings, to push ourselves into unknown territory. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z I am now used to entering unknown places without hesitation. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z If I disable the tracker and find a place to hide my heat signature, they might assume I just fell victim to some unknown new planet danger. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z “What is ahead is absolutely unknown...for we had no idea where we would come out, how we would get out, or when we would get out,” Roosevelt wrote. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z And the future, well, that was still unknown. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z “These are your people,” he told the unknown ancestor. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z A spotlight shines from the ceiling, its source unknown, and standing in the center of its circle of light are my mother, my father, and my brother. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z Perhaps the best way of putting it is to say that a door previously unknown to C.P. had been opened to him. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Auk XII, on the pad, was built to the design we had more or less standardized, but how it would perform loaded with melted rocket candy was a complete unknown. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Other observers in Osage County noted that suspicious deaths were routinely, and falsely, attributed to “consumption,” “wasting illness,” or “causes unknown.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z On the glass that covered it, some mysterious unknown person had crayoned a mustache right above my toothless grin. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z He wrote to Fox that his son had “caught the other day Brachinus crepitans My Blood boiled with old ardour when he caught a Licinus—a prize unknown to me.” Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z This seepage had continued to spread and had further contaminated an area of unknown extent. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The world within and around me seemed to fade into the unknown. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z At night, by some chemical process unknown to me but obviously inhibited by sunlight, the predatory algae turned highly acidic and the ponds became vats of acid that digested the fish. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z “We do not operate well when the important facts, the essential conditions, which limit and determine our choices are unknown,” Oppenheimer declared. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z So which is worse, those unknowns, or the freaky girl who just saved us? Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z "I am trying to explain to you," Miss Honey said patiently, "that we are dealing with the unknown. It is an unexplainable thing. The right word for it is a phenomenon. It is a phenomenon." Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z Why is it that the unknown is always so frightening? The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z Oh, Black known and unknown poets, how often have your auctioned pains sustained us? I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z His schemes, until then unknown to us in detail, always dealt with groups of three bases, hydrogen-bonded in the middle, many of which we now knew to be in the wrong tautomeric forms. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z “I’ve been staring at it all day, in between Spanish lessons. How do we find ‘X’ if the location of the fire pit remains unknown? The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z Within an hour I know it contains an unknown parasite similar to cryptosporidium, but no heavy metals. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z The killers and the unknowns were his specialty. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The phenomenon of laughter is unknown to animals; though it is possible that dogs and elephants may have some inkling of it. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z In other words: one inmate stabbed, assailant unknown, knife not found; three homemade knives found; no officers hurt. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The syringe was hot with an unknown agent. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z But half unknown to himself the regret that he had not gone with Bilbo was steadily growing. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z This informant—whose identity remains unknown to this day—provided the CIA with precious information about who was using which cables and when. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z I began to wonder if she, too, like my father, had disappeared into the unknown. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z She stayed by my side all along the way, a small, silent shadow who aroused an unknown tenderness in my soul. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z In the exhausting days spent taking care of unknown patients, she regained the light that had illuminated her from within when she was young, and for a time she had the illusion of being happy. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z I still got nervous, but after a while, the stomach-twisting nerves that went along with the unknown turned into only a flutter. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z Even Swift, whose background was modest indeed, dismissed Wotton as someone of unknown parentage. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z In truth I felt as if my life was stranded out on the high dive, about to leap into unknown waters. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “I have been informed by a person named Abel Magwitch, that he is the benefactor so long unknown to me.” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z It was terrifying to see your child in the grip of unknown forces. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Dad came out of the house and stood and watched me and then he left in the Buick, destination unknown. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z More than a hundred years later Galileo still needed, when writing in Latin, to use convoluted phrases such as ‘unknown to all astronomers before me’ to convey it. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z These townsmen enjoyed a degree of freedom that was unknown to their country cousins. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z A staircase appeared in the ground, and she floated down to some unknown room, the Town Uncle following close behind. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z It was a chance to be a true explorer—mapping an unknown river and discovering new wildlife species in a land never before seen by any naturalist, or any non-native person for that matter. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z When his bees all died from some unknown cause he went for help to his mother. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Jacqui is an unknown quantity in an unmarked bottle, and we are currently at her mercy. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z Die right then at Charlie’s hands or die in 105 days from an unknown disaster. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z Where I might go, what I might do, or when I might return, were questions utterly unknown to me; nor did I vex my mind with them, for it was wholly set on Provis’s safety. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z This sweet, funny, sometimes annoying, sometimes brilliant, naive child of mine...This child who is now an adult and about to launch, like a rocket blazing in beauty through the night sky to worlds unknown. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z She arrived exalted, rejuvenated, with new clothes in a style that was unknown in the village. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Everywhere there were people moving, unknown men pushing against unknown women and no one caring. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z This was Hogwarts as Riddle had known it, meaning that this unknown wizard was headmaster, not Dumbledore, and he, Harry, was little more than a phantom, completely invisible to the people of fifty years ago. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z “Oh, Sir Lancelot, Sir Lancelot!” cried an unknown gentlewoman, riding toward him at full speed and evidently trying to wring her hands in spite of the reins. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Such reuse of old materials is not unknown, though nobody has ever seen it with a gourd three thousand years old. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z After decades of neglect, I find myself thinking about departed great- aunts and -uncles, long-lost grandfathers, unknown fifth cousins, or, in the case of an inbred family like mine, all those things in one. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Dicey had slept and awakened in so many unknown places that she never had that first, morning feeling of being lost, or not knowing where she was. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z He seemed pleased or amused in some unknown corner of his mind. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z All that can really be said is that at some indeterminate point in the very distant past, for reasons unknown, there came the moment known to science as t = 0. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z This time it’s a text from that unknown number: Ben, it’s Samantha. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z When he had been younger, Harry had dreamed and dreamed of some unknown relation coming to take him away, but it had never happened; the Dursleys were his only family. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z I mean, here we are, the girl and I, heading outta danger and into the unknown and there’s no Noise overlapping us, nothing to tell us what the other’s thinking. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z What had happened at Nairobi Hospital was an isolated emergence, a microbreak of a rain-forest virus with unknown potential to start an explosive chain of lethal transmission in the human race. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Mixed with the resinous scent of the firs there came another smell, strong and fragrant, yet sharp—the perfume of flowers, but of some kind unknown to Hazel. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Mohammed was an unknown when the race began at six in the morning, and after eight hours, when he was approaching shore, he had no idea that he was in the lead. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z It had been a place to get away to—a private lair—a secret seclusion meant to be shared with best friends only—a life unknown to grown-ups and lived by kids alone. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z The world wasn’t ready for my parents’ relationship, 1 guess, so they ran off to parts unknown. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z It wasn’t long before Nugent overheard his gyptian companions using a phrase to describe the phenomena, a phrase that was unknown to him. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z It was like seeing an old friend, even if that friend was delivered by an unknown foe. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z She was not unknown to him; he couldn’t treat her like a stranger. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Chernenko, who had served in that position for a mere thirteen months, was virtually unknown in the West. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z However, the famous explorer didn’t think that Roosevelt’s current plans, to travel down an already well-known river, “could offer anything new to an Expedition whose object was to unravel unknown aspects of our wilds.” Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z But waiting, also, was a new and unknown way of life under the control of whites. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z What unknown covenants led her ultimately to this beach and this hour and this solitude? Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z For a moment she stared incredulous, as if he had begun to gibber in an unknown tongue-"Stannis and Renly are fighting each other!" A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Up to the threshold of the door there mounted a flight of twenty-seven broad stairs, hewn by some unknown art of the same black stone. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z The laws governing inheritance are quite unknown; no one can say why...the child often reverts in certain characters to its grandfather.... The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z Moss made a quick count: eight of them, batons held at the ready, their faces unseen, their motives unknown. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z Whether the children understood her exact meaning was unknown, but the general tone of her words seemed to have gotten across, for there was no more howling. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z But my note comes back in the mail, with address unknown scrawled across it. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Most of the species she discovered were unknown to Europeans at the time, and her observations were widely quoted and discussed. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z So journeys through unknown parts of America became my chief war memory, and I think of the first of them as this nighttime trip to Leper’s. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z The churning of things both bad and unknown kept me awake. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z And in behind them was some unknown thing. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z By the looks of it, the only champion who would be facing the unknown on Tuesday was Cedric. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z Chess thought about the careful way Ms. Morales had as if she was hiding them from some unknown danger. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z “Help me,” said Tendai to the unknown ancestor who had owned it. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z In the woods around the convent must be all manner of roots and wild berries and plants unknown in Denmark. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z But where, when, and on whom it would fall was still unknown. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z An unknown wonder to Canton Post, who heard bus riders talk about their journeys to and from school. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z His politics were unknown to the police and he had never before been questioned or raided. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z And a few weeks later they found themselves on an unnamed ship on their way to an unknown destination. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z It is just as well that large lumps of neutron star matter are unknown on Earth. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z It was plain that many people regarded them now as the companions of a travelling magician of unknown powers and purpose. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z There, Beatrice had “borrowed” a bicycle, forcefully installed Roy on the handlebars, and was now churning at a manic pace toward an unknown destination. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z There were ranges back as far as you could see, but behind the last range piled up against the sky there was a great unknown country. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z “So we’re all heading off into the great unknown, are we?” he asks me. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z There was romance in the unknown, but once a place had been discovered and cataloged and mapped, it was diminished, just another dusty fact in a book, sapped of mystery. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z How lethal these lawns may be for human beings is unknown. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The recovery of this letter, which Booth had carelessly—perhaps on purpose?—let fall into the hands of the manhunters was obviously addressed to the actor by an unknown conspirator. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Sure, Texas has all the famous landmarks that everyone’s heard of, but we have all these unknown gems, too. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z They seized on this partly because it enabled them to introduce into philosophy a creator God unknown to Aristotle and Ptolemy. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z She saw the ghosts of all those unknown dead, heard the great house pant with the labored breath of an old woman. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z State television rolled out his previously unknown wife, Ri Sol Ju. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z And as I sat there brooding on the old, unknown world, I thought of Gatsby's wonder when he first picked out the green light at the end of Daisy's dock. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z For some unknown reason the stiff wire handle had twisted in the sockets and dropped. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z They made notations in their family Bible, indicating places where biblical scholars deemed passages inauthentic, added later by unknown authors. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z But now there were new fears; the unfamiliar landscape held hidden, unknown perils. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z And so I light out for the unknown regions. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z Shady could get almost nothing to exhume an almost- unknown pile of rocks on the coast. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Half a century later the whereabouts of the century’s greatest astronomer remain unknown. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Next I saw her after school, riding double with an unknown boy. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z They were legally condemned children hidden away in adult prisons, largely unknown and forgotten, preoccupied with surviving in dangerous, terrifying environments with little family support or outside help. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z It all depended on the unknown abilities of the Grievers, but it was the best thing he could come up with. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z He’d been dreaming of a fire, flames eating unknown walls, and the siren sounded, and then it wasn’t a siren but the telephone. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z That unknown made Crazy Horse’s people reluctant to finish their long and arduous journey. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z The portal into the human race may well have been a cut on this unknown person’s hand. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The kiss was arousing in the way that unknown things are arousing. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z The unknown agent could infect monkey cells and pop them. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z When I heard unknown voices nearby, I broke out of my paralysis. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z The virus may have entered the cotton factory by some unknown route—perhaps in insects trapped in the cotton fibers, for example, or in rats that lived in the factory. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Others were left at home because they weren’t right for where she was going or to make room for new, unknown stories she hadn’t yet read. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z The nun’s blood was precious beyond measure, since it contained the unknown hot agent. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The eastern woods teemed with flora unknown to the Old World, and there was a huge eagerness, from scientists and amateur enthusiasts alike, to get a piece of it. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z We had a good idea, but we got a bad result, a situation not totally unknown to the BCMA. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z A man in an elegant red cardinal's robe and a high lace collar stood resting against an enormous Bible and now began to lead a hard-driving hymn which the congregation shouted in the unknown tongue. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z The exact chronology of their evolution remains unknown, but could be resolved by the next object that a farmer discovers in a field. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The science of volcanoes was unknown back then. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z Thus, it remains unknown whether it represents an indigenous Cretan script or a foreign import to Crete. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z It’s as if the city has become a library of books in an unknown language, the houses great shelves of illegible volumes, the lamps all extinguished. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z In the era of mass lynching, it was so difficult to find who, specifically, served as executioner that such deaths were often reported by the press as having happened “at the hands of persons unknown.” Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z He had, I supposed, used them to assure himself of the freedom of the house; even more, for the defiance of knowing he had the liberty of motion, unknown to his masters. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z My only worry is that every time I’ve wanted something to go a certain way in all of this, it’s gone the other, designed perfectly to challenge me with the unknown. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z I mentioned, you will remember, how in a big city, a sizable organization can remain practically unknown, unless something happens that brings it to the general public’s attention. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z These women from the western part of the Soviet Union left their homes for the unknown in 1962. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z There he was, the unknown thief, the thief he was seeking.... Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z Could she travel halfway around the world, braving the very real dangers of pirates, shipwreck, and disease, to face a wild and unknown land? The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z The name of this unknown girl makes me hold my breath. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z For example, we land at night in some entirely unknown spot, a sorry hole, that has been eaten out to the very walls. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z Bobby continued squirming to get loose as the guards struggled to take him to an unknown destination. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z The route out of the city is bumpy and winding, especially as the driver takes sudden turns to avoid broken buildings or unknown groups clustered on the road. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z Thus, the top of the Richardson curve is shifting downward by an unknown amount. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z But for centuries after their discovery, the composition of those clouds remained entirely unknown. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z She had helped ease the pain of hundreds and thousands of people in preparation for that journey into the unknown. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z As they pushed on, they encountered a strange universe of unknown creatures that included a 450-pound, six-foot kangaroo, and a marsupial lion, as massive as a modern tiger, that was the continent’s largest predator. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z He saw the unknown ancestor standing in a forest clearing, smelting red ore in a beehive oven. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z The other two films are unknown to me, but I’m sure I know the man who can help. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z Now in Odysseus’ hall untended still our bodies lie, unknown to friends or kinsmen who should have laid us out and washed our wounds free of the clotted blood, and mourned our passing. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z As with Ebola, the secret hiding place of the Marburg agent was unknown. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The very plants were unknown to them—pink lousewort with its sprays of hooked flowers, bog asphodel and the thin-stemmed blooms of the sundews, rising above their hairy, fly-catching mouths, all shut fast by night. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z One for the unknown man at the river crossing. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z Though she did not know the scientific names of her insects—these species were unknown in Europe—she decided she did not really care. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z I had not even the instincts of a mother cat I wanted to flee both Elsinore and the unknown fate of motherhood, though such escape seemed impossible, except by my death. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z “The spirit of adventure, the lure of the unknown, the thrill of a gallant quest. How very grand indeed.” The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z It seemed to make him feel like he was doing what a father should, plucking up his daughter’s courage, helping her face the terrors of the unknown. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Then the sea blended imperceptibly into sweeping areas of land populated only by the figures of animal life unknown to her, hulking creatures grazing on tall tan grasses. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z It smelled of mold, was redolent of antique paper and bindings, and was permeated with a perennial gray cloud of an unknown origin. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z After sterile weeks he came to an unknown city where all the bells were tolling a dirge. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z What he wishes to do in there is unknown. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z I see that there’s a whole world of girls and their doings that has been unknown to me, and that I can be part of it without making any effort at all. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z "I was forcibly abducted in Rome by some unknown persons," Yurchenko said. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z What is familiar history for us, however, was still the unknown future for them. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z He seems to have overdone it with a couple of young recruits on the ploughed field at home and unknown to him the son of the local magistrate was watching. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z He had held his son, who had known life only within her, against his chest in a darkened room in an unknown wing of the hospital. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z If the night of his initiation into the Klan was a homecoming, his acceptance into Durham’s civic life was the discovery of a previously unknown extended family. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z The only thing that “lived” inside this monkey was the unknown agent, and it was dead, for the time being. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I had no choice but to continue with my plan and face its unknown perils. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z He threw his great hands round Arete’s knees, whereon the sacred mist curled back; they saw him; and the diners hushed amazed to see an unknown man inside the palace. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Even Paul Marshall, Bobby’s lawyer, addressed Bobby’s “dread”: “Bobby fears the unknown, whatever lies beyond his control. He tries to eliminate any element of chance from his life and his chess.” Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z He had disappeared into the unknown; all he could do was repeat the name of the destination and hope that it would suffice to take him there. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z The boy put his nose against her neck and inhaled that unknown perfume of cleanliness and wellbeing; without knowing why, his eyes filled with tears. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The assembly looked with him, considered the vast stretches of water, the high sea beyond, unknown indigo of infinite possibility, heard silently the sough and whisper from the reef. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z The head was in the midst of about fifty large, artificial earthen mounds—the ruins, Sterling concluded with excitement, of a previously unknown Maya civic center. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z With this unique ability to penetrate the unknown and rare talent for expressing it through art, the artist-shaman gained control over the forces hidden in human beings and nature. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z His mother, we can exclusively reveal, is none other than the giantess Fridwulfa, whose whereabouts are currently unknown. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z “Stop fighting it,” a throaty, unknown voice whispers in my ear. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z Whether it was Lawrence or Livingston who first came up with shimming is unknown, for both would claim credit. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Regina Fischer bought a copy and read it carefully; the book was found in Bobby’s library years later, but whether he ever read it is unknown. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z My mother died when I was quite young, and certainly a motherless girl will come up wanting in some respects, but in my opinion she has a freedom unknown to other daughters. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z It seems to Werner that in the space between whatever has happened already and whatever is to come hovers an invisible borderland, the known on one side and the unknown on the other. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z I hung back, very nearly resolved to flee and take my chances with Falconer—had I known where he was—or even on my own in that unknown city. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z We are headed toward the unknown, and we have no choice but to sit quietly in our hard seats and let ourselves be taken there. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z But he was determined to get in touch with his unknown friend. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z Some of us would go away, or suffer, or die, the future stretched away in front of us, unknown, unseen, not perhaps what we wanted, not what we planned. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z He felt quiet and at peace with himself when he was padding around a hot zone in a space suit, carrying a rack of test tubes that held an unknown deadly agent. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z For she is unknown; or if known, she has never been mentioned to me. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z His own hands were huge windmills and he stared fascinated at the unknown thing that Antonapoulos held. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Poor Lodovico, he does not seem to have realized that the discovery of America had made ridiculous the claim that one should never venture into the unknown. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z And, still later, the news spread around campus of a strike by lecturers, and students gathered in the hostel foyer, bristling with the known and the unknown. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z If anyone at the time had suggested that this unknown disease in gay men in southern California came from wild chimpanzees in Africa, the medical community would have collectively burst out laughing. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z But more than a few blocks away, north of the raucous automobile traffic and elevated railway on 86th Street, was a strange unknown territory, off-limits to my wanderings. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z How all Grandpop’s fear of outside, of the unknown, disappeared when he heard his grandsons cry out. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z I longed for distant and unknown places, but even more I longed to know about love. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z “Thank you,” he whispered to the unknown ancestor. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z ‘But rest, if you must. Yet do not cast all hope away. Tomorrow is unknown. Rede oft is found at the rising of the Sun.’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z He could continue to sail, but to move blind in the dark this close to an unknown shore would be madness. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Was he not safe at the manor as she thought but somewhere unknown and unsafe and unfit? The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z One thing I know: that if my instinct be true regarding poor Mrs. Harker’s silences, then there is a terrible difficulty—an unknown danger—in the work before us. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z Her father’s newspapers contained tales of explorers, unknown lands, pygmy peoples. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z He was a big man now; he would not, of course, pick up a call from an unknown number. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z For her, their dad was like the unknown in a math problem that you didn’t have to solve for. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z What makes them uproot and leave everything they’ve known for a great unknown beyond the horizon? Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z This stair was unknown to her, however, and that made it perilous. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The murderer of the Walker family remains unknown. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z This was so unknown, in my experience, that I wondered if he was too soft, if he gave them too much free rein. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He was the chief of the disease-assessment division at the Institute, the doctor who dealt with the dangerous unknowns. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “Do you ever want to know these unknown things? About your name? Your mother? Your father?” Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z To go off with this man was to be dragged into the unknown. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z There was a silence, for suddenly the dark and unknown forest, so near at hand, made itself felt as a great brooding presence, full of secret purpose. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z “Listen: ‘The incident happened shortly before sunrise, when an unknown prankster sneaked up to the patrol car, a 2001 Crown Victoria, and spray-painted the windows with black paint.’” Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z She watched her uncle maneuver salad greens, olive oil, vinegar, and several ingredients unknown to her with the same precision and assurances he employed on a difficult osteotomy. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z A race of giants had lived then, fearless men, men of a staunchness unknown in this day. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z Jackson sits in a jail cell awaiting some unknown fate. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z She looked just like one of those unknown actresses you see on the TV summer-replacement programs. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z It was my way of making the stars, and the unknown, feel within reach. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z “The death toll from today’s events is unknown at this time but is expected to reach into the thousands.” Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z In its own evolution through unknown hosts and hidden pathways in the rain forest. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z It had been shortly after Pauline’s death, and there had been much excitement in the art world when this previously unknown photograph had been put up for sale. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z An unknown but very large acreage of timber-producing lands is now aerially sprayed in order to “weed out” the hardwoods from the more spray- resistant conifers. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Soon all traces of Dictionopolis had vanished in the distance and all those strange and unknown lands that lay between the kingdom of words and the kingdom of numbers stretched before them. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z The effects of smoking on the body are becoming well known, but the effects of space flight were largely unknown in 1965. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z My life is about to leap into an unknown place. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z My Chinese brother and sister had died of an unknown sickness. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z There were believed to be hundreds or possibly even thousands of workers and an unknown number of fire, police, and rescue personnel still trapped in the two buildings when they went down. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z “Over a road unknown to me. A thousand things could go wrong. Do you not think I have enough to worry about?” A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z But everything was unlikely these days, and Reynie preferred almost any explanation to the one that seemed most plausible: For some awful, unknown reason, Mr. Benedict had tricked them. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z But going into a containment zone to perform a necropsy on an animal that had died of an amplified unknown hot agent was something a little different. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Normally it was in full red flower by now, but this year, for some unknown reason, it had chosen to flower late. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z After six years I was leaving Kraków, the city of my childhood dreams, the city that had become a nightmare, and was heading into the unknown. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z Everyone was uneasy at being beckoned into the unknown. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z The scratched writing on my cupboard wall floats before me, left by an unknown woman, with the face of Moira. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z But the former president knew what a bloody gash to his leg really meant, especially in the unknown and unforgiving jungle. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z He had much to report in his book, including his fossil discoveries, and discoveries of previously unknown species. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z By the turn of the century the fringes of the continent were fairly well defined on the charts, but the interior was still an unknown wasteland of ice. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z He’d never liked the ocean, the sense of the unknown beneath his feet, that something hungry and full of teeth might be waiting to drag him under. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z “If Elodin had been here, matters would have been much simpler. But as the name of fire is unknown to me, I was left to my own devices.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z She rode the prevailing wind over the familiar mountains and rivers and beyond the Catskills into unknown territory. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z Upon arrival he discovered that oil-company geologists, the only scientists in the area, believed the Beni was thick with the remains of an unknown civilization. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z It wasn’t hard to imagine what their group must have looked like: a pack of uniformed men, spears, and stern faces, charging into unknown danger. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z This lodestone of longing, this certainty, drew him to lead his companions ever westward through wild and unknown country, as unerringly as a carrier pigeon released from an alien loft. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Two nights after that, the Home Tom Chronicle showed a different picture—the home of the Catholic Relief Agency where Mai Thi lived, which had been attacked by unknown vandals. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z After all, no one else could claim the plantation’s mistress as their momma and an unknown field hand as their poppa. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z Wasn’t it possible that he was carrying out some secret mission completely unknown to me? All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z I was an unknown, after all—an unpredictable new slave. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z That southern province, however distant and unknown, was exactly what he had been waiting for. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z My assailant was unknown, unnamed, and in a car. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z Sandwiches of unknown nature, mysteriously flavoured and quite delectable, and that very special gingerbread. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z There no longer was any distinction between rich and poor, notables and the others; we were all people condemned to the same fate—still unknown. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z In the four days since starting their journey into the unknown, the expedition had traveled only twenty miles down the river. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z Each filovirus strain contains seven proteins, four of which are completely unknown. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z And even now there is a narrow hope that Julie has gone to ground until some unknown danger passes. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z But after everything that had happened with my parents, Thomas, Tamika, and Sir Fig Newton, I realized that it’s okay to believe in something unknown, something bigger than myself. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z Such domesticity among men was unknown to the girls, and Fiona said she would marry no man who had not served in the Royal Navy. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z How she had learned this was unknown, but visitors did wander through the village from time to time. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Downtown San Francisco became alien and cold, and the streets I had loved in a personal familiarity were unknown lanes that twisted with malicious intent. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z What if his great father came from the unknown world and drove these men like dead leaves through the place, recovering honor and lordship in his own domains? The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z The Pathfinder mission ended because the lander had an unknown critical failure. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z That night I made for the first time the kind of journey which later became the monotonous routine of my life: traveling through an unknown countryside from one unknown settlement to another. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z He could not understand why his mother had to make this weary, miserable pilgrimage to an unknown place, to a strange man who was holy and was dying. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z “Here it is: ‘Last Monday, unknown intruders uprooted survey stakes from the property. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Like the flag of an unknown country, seen for an instant above a curve of hill. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z I had fled a known terror, and perhaps I could cope with this unknown terror that lay ahead. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z The boulevard was as clean as the surface of an arena two minutes before the appearance of certain unnamed victims and certain unknown killers. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z He had been buried without funeral or rite in the Cook County Cemetery at Dunning, amid the mad and the unknown dead. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z By January 20, 1942, Seaborg was confident enough to write McMillan with assurance that the bombardments had produced an unknown isotope of element 94. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z She had tessered, fallen through the rabbit hole, crossed the ice bridge into the unknown world beyond. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z He was barely able to hack his way through the jungle, let alone map an unknown river. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z “So you just decided to try out an unknown, handwritten incantation and see what would happen?” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z Another suspicion grew, too terrible to be spoken aloud, that the unknown murderer was still in Denmark, even at Elsinore among us. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z It is a cheery contrast to our reality and the reason we are traveling such a long and unknown road. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z Therefore, it was an unknown agent, a new virus. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z A young math student replied—he even knew how to play chess—but for unknown reasons he didn’t take the job. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Fanaticism in war, of the type that drove recorded Christian and Islamic conquests, was probably unknown on Earth until chiefdoms and especially states emerged within the last 6,000 years. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z That he had climbed out, many admired, for the cliff was steep and jagged and the world beyond unknown; few had the courage that Einar had had. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z The mighty Amazon jungle, which landed squarely in that unknown space, was a dangerous, dense, and nearly impenetrable wilderness. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z As with many autoimmune diseases, it's unknown what causes some people to develop vitiligo, though it is suspected that there can be a genetic factor, and it can be triggered by stress. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z Soon the darkness was full of daws, full of the awful unknown and menace. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z "This morning, gentlemen, whilst I was sitting on the terrace, I was an observer of your activities. There could be little doubt of your purpose. You were searching the island for an unknown murderer?" And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z The art of provocation was unknown to me, and I would sit with his map upon my lap, the wind blowing my dull, lanky hair, happy in his silence yet eager for his words. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z It was rare but not unknown to have some kids with actual athletic talent with us there on those Friday afternoons. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z Armed and camouflaged soldiers would from time to time burst into classrooms, interrupting lessons to read off lists of those suspected of subversive activities, rounding them up in armoured vehicles, headed for unknown destinations. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Ekon felt as though he was sinking below some unknown surface as the words washed over him. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z For reasons unknown, Indians heaved up a ring of eleven irregularly sized mounds, most of them connected by a ridge, on a hill overlooking the course of the Ouachita River. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z This latest discovery of a new and baffling rhyme concerning moonlight, the north and an unknown threshold nagged at his brain. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z Tact was a quality unknown to her, discretion too, and because gossip was the breath of life to her this stranger must be served for her dissection. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z He began striding up and down again, praying and prophesying, with his words sometimes shifting to an unknown, yet strangely powerful, tongue. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z But she was always welcoming to all visitors, known or unknown. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Leaving the place that has become home in the wake of the sun flares.Venturing out into the complete unknown. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z The effect of radioactivity on health was hardly unknown—not least because of widespread press coverage of the poisoning of working women at U.S. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z It had moved quickly, decisively, and by an unknown route. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z It was not a vision of the future as totally unknown, but rather a vision of the future as composed, in part at least, of what had been okay about the past. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z And now here we were again, getting ready for another journey into another unknown, driven by fear. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z With remarkable prudence he acknowledged that his calculations could be wrong if "sources now unknown to us are prepared in the great storehouse of creation"–but it was clear that he thought that unlikely. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z For many, it was the first glimpse into a completely unknown, extraordinary world. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z “There were so many unknown factors that we had to give up the plan,” said Haukelid. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z But the idea of going back to the Honeycomb and reporting that he had glimpsed an unknown creature in the grass and left it alone was more than he could swallow. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Mudd was the unknown soldier who had never had a chance, for that was the only thing anyone ever did know about all the unknown soldiers—they never had a chance. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z A perfect statue, carved in some unknown stone, smooth like marble, glittering like crystal. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z She squinted at the paper, read the words slowly: “Public woman. She died of yellow fever. And for my dad it just says unknown.” Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z The hole in the roof, moreover, was a recent development, unknown to the Student Referral Office. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z We easily forget that horses and rifles were originally unknown to Native Americans. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z His eyes flashed, and energy bubbled up from some unknown reservoir. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The Americas were a great laboratory of evolutionary experimentation, a place where animals and plants unknown in Africa and Asia had evolved and thrived. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Although known for more than 60 years, these were formerly dismissed as cellular elements of unknown and probably unimportant function. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z But Aurelia’s hand was round his collar, and he followed her as tamely as any dog into the unknown. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z Now here we were, ready to walk towards the unknown. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z For some unknown reason she loved him, and he was a better person for it. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z At last he saw the first of the dawn, like light faintly perceived round a corner at the far end of an unknown burrow; and in the same moment a yellowhammer sang. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z As Cherrie happily noted in his diary later that night, “Our work as explorers of an unknown river is of course finished!” Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z “This loop was the twenty-ninth of March, 316 A.D. It existed until sometime in the year 399, though the day and month are unknown.” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z After Roosevelt clearly pointed to the exact location of the formerly unknown river, the audience listened in rapt attention to his stories of hardship and survival. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z Pippin sat miserably by the door in the pitch dark; but he kept on turning round, fearing that some unknown thing would crawl up out of the well. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z For some unknown reason, the authorities kept on giving him the runaround, telling him to bring this and that document, this and that certificate. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z The stranger who comes unknown is a guest. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z And in a low voice she read something, of which not one word was intelligible to me; for it was in an unknown tongue—neither French nor Latin. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z I was surprised, filled with panic, as though I had been left alone with an unknown danger. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Leader laughed wryly when Matty had opened to a page and pointed to the unknown language. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z I was seeking Brahman, Atman, I wished to destroy myself, to get away from myself, in order to find in the unknown innermost, the nucleus of all things, Atman, Life, the Divine, the Absolute. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z They were filled with wonder at the thought of strange lands and unknown languages. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z It is small wonder that the idea of setting sail for an unknown land grew less and less attractive to him. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z At school, Broughton-Smith had found out, he had said, 'Kingshaw lives in a private hotel!’ and they had all stared at him, it had been an abnormality unknown to any of them. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z This was partly due to ecclesiastical interference - priests, bishops and cardinals knowing better than composers which sounds were godly, pure and appropriate - and partly due, I suppose, to fear of the unknown. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Farther down the opposite end of the street, I saw signs with symbols I didn’t recognize—but that, the unknown, that had to be better than going back to Cate. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z She thinks for a moment longer and adds, “Maybe approve is the right word. I don’t know. It was the unknown.” The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z “I will say this: His name was not unknown in these woods. And if you are his widow, that puts matters in a different light.” Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z His dad imprisoned by rats, his mom crying, the dangers of taking Boots on this unknown voyage, and his own fear at the pillar. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z In a stroke of good luck for Booth, for unknown reasons Samuel Mudd’s cousin George failed to ride into town to report the strangers to the cavalry. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z By July 1921, the justice of the peace had closed his inquiries, stating that Anna Brown’s death had come at “the hands of parties unknown”—the same finding as delivered in the Whitehorn inquest. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z I saw his back walking away from Miigwans, out of the safety of the woods and into the unknown of the city. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z ‘Stay, strangers here unknown!’ they cried in the tongue of the Riddermark, demanding the names and errand of the strangers. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z A few men were lounging in the shade, tats and piercings showing unknown affiliations. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z Moreover, Siddhartha’s sympathy and curiosity lay only with people, whose work, troubles, pleasures and follies were more unknown and remote from him than the moon. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z Instead, Roosevelt wanted to talk about how the expedition had discovered and mapped a previously unknown river. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z To one thing I have made up my mind: if we find out that Mina must be a vampire in the end, then she shall not go into that unknown and terrible land alone. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z “The story we’ve put out is that Sayle was attacked by a hitherto unknown terrorist organization and that he’s gone into hiding...” Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z I wanted to lie for a short while on the sun-warmed bank and revisit some sweeter memories before undertaking the journey to my unknown future. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z To live between the prospects of an unknown eternal sky and a dark, enveloping Earth must have been glorious—for how else could it have given rise to such magnificent expression? Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z It cannot be debated that the existence of a “gene” was utterly unknown to Mendel. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Everything about this man, his commanding voice, his odd accent, warns of an unknown and dangerous threat. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z As the journey into the unknown began, no one could have suspected that there would soon be a criminal among them. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z Foreign visitors are rare here but not unknown. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Somebody in Belsize must be having shock treatments, unknown to me, and the nurse had, quite understandably, confused me with her. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z Had some unknown magic drawn Hermione to this spot, or was the doe, which he had taken to be a Patronus, some kind of guardian of the pool? Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z The zeppelin carrying the President of the Consistorial Court was carrying other passengers as well, unknown to him. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z The topic of disagreement is unknown, but likely concerned species formation, variation, and heredity. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z “You now know a thing that was unknown. What is it?” Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z She spat on the spectacular pile of coins, put them in three canvas sacks, and buried them in a secret place, hoping that sooner or later the three unknown men would come to reclaim them. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z The real blow came twelve years later, when, as a consequence of a radical taxonomic reshuffle, lepidopterists decided that Pappachi’s moth was in fact a separate species and genus hitherto unknown to science. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z We seem to be drifting into unknown places and unknown ways; into a whole world of dark and dreadful things. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z Maybe they were symbols in an unknown code—how do we know that trees don’t talk deliberately with their branches, giving slow, intricate messages with an unnoticed vocabulary of shapes? Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z Nico sat with the Stoll brothers, since new campers always got stuck in the Hermes cabin if their Olympian parent was unknown. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z I trotted down one unknown street, then another, sending up sprays of water with each step. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z They went to a vaudeville stage show, visited the tomb of an unknown soldier from the Great War, and took in a light opera. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z He passed information to Washington—in a way still unknown—and convinced many Hessians to go over to the American side. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z For some unknown reason, I was fearful of the place and wanted to turn back, but the sight, nearby, of shirtless, muscular impis engaged in mock fights using spears and knobkerries made me stay. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z I seemed rooted to the spot by a terrifying fear of the unknown. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z For example, a previously unknown fever termed O’nyong-nyong fever appeared in East Africa in 1959 and proceeded to infect several million Africans. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z As he watched he had an immovable expression on his face, composed but alert, as if someone were giving him directions to an unknown destination. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z Liyana was being kissed by so many people whose exact identity was unknown to her, though Poppy tried to clarify names of aunts, cousins, and wives of cousins, to help his family out. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z But even if you were an unknown, just being a decent person is a job these days. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z She looked at me and added, "She is a hybrid genius of unknown I.Q.," and I knew that she was acknowledging our conversation of last summer. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z In the gallery, friends and family members sit and watch, the bewildered audience to a play performed in an unknown dialect of acronyms, Latin, and Old English. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z One might initially wonder how a linguist, studying only modern languages whose unwritten ancestral forms remain unknown, could ever figure out whether Austronesians living on Taiwan 6,000 years ago had pigs. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z But now I was leaving them, to venture alone into the unknown, to cast adrift my ship in search of freedom and liberty in a new land. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z His heart beat faster at the thought of that, but he felt fine about the unknown of it all. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z Mr. Philips visited them all, and this opened to his nieces a source of felicity unknown before. Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z Not because he wanted to be forgiven for missing the meal—that didn’t interest him at all, he might have rather enjoyed the punishment if it was done in some novel and unknown way. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z “I believe it is a way to use two known points to find the location of a third and unknown point.” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z What if it could be mounted upon the ramparts unknown to Cluny and his horde? Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z I let myself drop into the unknown, come what may—yet, in spite of all, I feel somewhat afraid. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z I asked, excited by the idea of unraveling another of the unknowns. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z A provincial schoolteacher of humble origins, unknown to all but a few mathematicians, Kepler was diffident about Tycho’s offer. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z If there has ever been a conqueror who did not exact this most devastating tithe from his subjects, he is unknown to history. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Plus, we had to do this against an unknown enemy force dug in and waiting for us with rifles, machine guns, mortars, and artillery. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z They shouted, in turns, and together, “Position unknown! Ship out of control! Condition desperate!” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z Animals that escape go from the known into the unknown—and if there is one thing an animal hates above all else, it is the unknown. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z In the drawer beneath the sink there were three pencils and he took one out and wrote in the log: Date unknown, probably June 4th or 5th. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z His father nudged him along, and young Shamsoun held on for dear life as the moving stairway carried him toward the unknown. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z But the unknowns of an explosive powder mixed with the toxic solution are too risky. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Finn stared at his own blank computer screen, the picture of the unknown computer programmers seeming to taunt him about everything he didn’t know, everything he was useless at helping the other kids find out. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z Ekon had the distinct feeling that he was teetering on the edge of something, preparing to leap into some unknown abyss. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z I’m looking at apartments on my phone, getting more and more disheartened by the cost and the fear of the complete unknown, when Jamie groans from the other side of the room. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z Historians, Butterfield argued, must learn to see the past as if the future were unknown, as it was to people at the time. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z She took the necessary steps to deal with my unknown father’s rights, but my mother refused to give me up. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z While the exact number of horses in Washington, D.C., during the Civil War is unknown, it’s safe to say that the total reached the upper tens of thousands. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z It was the only way to be certain that there were no impurities in the equation, and no unknown factor that might affect the results. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z It would help them know what was unknown. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z Past voyages of discovery suggest that many of the most interesting inhabitants of the galactic continent remain as yet unknown and unanticipated. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Alone, that is, except for four burly men who sat outside the window and an unknown number lurking outside the door. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Around me were seabirds, egrets, and herons, as well as species of murky fish, many of them probably unknown to science, the only evidence of them the occasional spiny fin rising from the surface. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z She should have found a safe place to leave it, but how did one do that in an unknown city? Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z Marsupial mammals were almost unknown in Africa and Asia, but in Australia they reigned supreme. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z For him it was as if the way to the unknown nourishment he craved was revealing itself to him. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z Some unknown force had wrenched and shattered these cubes so that they lay askew, often piled diminishingly on each other. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z Margot stuffed her schoolbag with schoolbooks, went to get her bicycle and, with Miep leading the way, rode off into the great unknown. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z The cyclotron principle was not exactly unknown to physics. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The jungle answered with unknown screeches and a low, murmuring hiss. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z ‘So you destroy our ship. You destroy the entire coastline of the world. Once Gaia wipes out human civilization, who’s left to fear you? You’ll still be unknown.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z One night, during the course of a week darkened by somber rumors, he miraculously escaped four revolver shots taken at him by an unknown party as he was leaving a secret meeting. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Even when the unknowns are appropriately symbolized and the relevant equation can be set up, the manipulations necessary to solve it are too often only hazily understood. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Once again, he felt like he was on the precipice of something, about to leap into an unknown. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z The disillusioned Fernanda tried to obtain more precise information, but the unknown correspondents did not answer her letters any more. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z The dark was coming on hard now, and off to the west I could see the mountains rising in silhouette, all the mysteries and unknowns. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z There is a branch of the C.D.C. that deals with unknown emerging viruses. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Now, huddled inside the ragged quilt, she was sucked down, in spite of herself, into a black whirlpool of slumber, where nightmare phantoms whirled with her, nearer and nearer, toward some unknown horror. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z In that moment, when everything stood still and the outcome was unknown and all of us were hopeful, I got this huge surge of love for Dad and Twig and Dari. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z The hypothesis of unconscious motivation explains why the murderers perceived innocuous and relatively unknown victims as provocative and thereby suitable targets for aggression. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z He might dissect, anatomise, and give names; but, not to speak of a final cause, causes in their secondary and tertiary grades were utterly unknown to him. Frankenstein 1818-01-01T00:00:00Z They were promising her a thousand unknown stories, a thousand doors into worlds she had never seen before. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z The entrance to this circus triggers the same sort of fear—stepping into the black unknown, beyond which is something dangerous. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z And besides, behind the force that Red and Samuel would lend me in a fight lay the powerful, unknown magic of Ultima. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Somewhere in the unknown the white threat was hovering near again. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z With every step, Ekon felt it—the distinct sensation of releasing a life raft and casting himself into unknown waters. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z Such foundries were not unknown to the Inka, but Andean societies vastly preferred to hammer metal into thin sheets, form the sheets around molds, and solder the results. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The bronze dragon spread his wings, and they soared into the unknown. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Perhaps each of them, listening, glimpsed through that window a private world, unknown to the others. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z This time, too, there was no small, endearingly innocent pulse of excitement, that keen and eager frisson that comes with venturing into the unknown with gleaming, untried equipment. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z Maybe Eric was right, and choosing death is like exploring an unknown, uncertain place. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z Much more important, it would affect the ecology of our planet in an unknown way. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “I knew you wanted to disguise yourself, so to help you stay unknown, I hid it.” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z “So ancient that I believed-it no more than a legend. There are still deep secrets concerning Dyrnwyn, unknown even to the wisest. Its loss destroyed Spiral Castle and was a severe blow to Arawn.” The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z Joy was as unknown to him as was despair. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z I look toward the stair but there are too many bodies trundling through the house, too many unknown faces to pick one out. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z To acknowledge these horrors means turning away from the brightly rendered version of your country as it has always declared itself and turning toward something murkier and unknown. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z One thing I know about, because Mum has shown me, is getting an unknown number through Directory Enquiries. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z The other soldier stationed in the picket, a man unknown to me, asked me when I thought they would put in with their boats and cross over to us for an assault. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z And I want to tell her this: We are lost, she and I, unseen and not seeing, unheard and not hearing, unknown by others. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z I wanted to please my unknown American parents and my beloved teacher. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z Columbus discovered America, an unknown world, when he was trying to find a new route to a known world, China. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z I loved them for not giving up on me because charting this unknown territory on a leap of faith at times was paralyzing. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z There were rumors, likely untrue, of citizens who had swum across, or even made their way across the high, forbidden bridge and disappeared into the unknown lands beyond. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z It may be some Ages hence, a voyage to the Southern unknown Tracts, yea possibly the Moon, will not be more strange then one to America. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z It was another of Kehaar’s unknown words that he did not feel up to questioning. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Make him speak the unknown tongue, the language of the future. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Several days later, in a village where the river meets the sea, there washed up on the banks two blocks of wood carved in the shape of the hooves of some unknown beast. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Our earliest ancestors began to walk on two feet about four million years ago, but how they were using their hands remains unknown to us. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z I wondered, too, whether he was suffering inside, whether he sometimes cried, as I did, for reasons unknown. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Another C.D.C. doctor who worked on the unknown virus was Frederick A. Murphy, a virologist who had helped to identify Marburg virus. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Sanitation was practically unknown; only 10 percent of households had even a basic privy. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z G. was the first identified case, the index case, in an outbreak of an unknown virus. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He regarded his own hand as if it were unknown to him. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Though ordinary to most men, this was a luxury virtually unknown in my experience as a Negro. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z The toddler was crying over some unknown disappointment, and the sound of his cries drew Tree-ear’s attention. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z As for Mason and Dixon, they returned to England as scientific heroes and, for reasons unknown, dissolved their partnership. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z The illicit payoffs were as yet unknown to the public, and as the barons moved toward the front of the Million Dollar Elm, they were treated as princes of capitalism, the crowd parting before them. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z “Could be anyone of unknown or questionable background. Be alert and trust no one. Got it?” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z Emotions ran high, driven by fear of the unknown. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z Being up there, with the egg just a speck and the results unknown, was strange. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z As you must know, it would be unusual for us to publish a complete novella by an unknown writer, or for that matter a well-established one. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z At least 90 percent of these pedestrians are quite unknown to us. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z I felt less alone, but little comforted, for an unknown and solitary journey lay before me still. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z The second most important unknown was the question of rendezvous and docking. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z There, unknown to any of the caretakers, was a small broken window. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z Dangerous as they could be to me, somehow, they did not seem as threatening as the dark shadowy woods with its strange sounds, its unknowns. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z And here was someone willing to tramp out into a wilderness brimming with the unknown and bring back paintings. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z It was always dangerous to say bad things about an unknown place. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z It was the stillness of the black water, and the unknown things that lay beneath. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z There were fish— big fish with protruding foreheads and very long dorsal fins, dorados they are called, and smaller fish, lean and long, unknown to me, and smaller ones still—and there were sharks. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z I should close my eyes, rest up for the unknown world that lies ahead, but I’m antsy. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z At that time he was thirty-five, yet almost totally unknown. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z Children fought in school in a way unknown to me at home. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z In Lagos, the harmattan was a mere veil of haze, but in Nsukka, it was a raging, mercurial presence; the mornings were crisp, the afternoons ashen with heat, and the nights unknown. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z He abandoned the house on Quality Ridge and lit out for parts unknown, taking with him what remained of the investments of half the town. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z Instead, I looked down the well and saw nothing but the dark river water flowing freely, appetizingly on its way to some unknown destination. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z This is when I realize that Safer might be what Mom calls an unknown quantity. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z She just wanted to be herself, the self she was before Pet showed up and started making her look for unseen and unknown things. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z Finding the North Star, which is how everybody from the Egyptians to the Vikings to the Polynesians was able to chart their courses across unknown seas. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z It was a world and life, a way of being, utterly unknown to me. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z Although I have been told by various frightened crewmen not to venture into the unknown corners of the ship, I can’t help myself. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z She inhaled the perfume of the drenched earth, the rotten leaves, and the humus, which awakened an unknown pleasure in all her senses. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “Yeah,” he said, his voice soft, gripped in the fear of the unknown. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z Genetic analysis proved that the finger belonged to a previously unknown human species, which was named Homo denisova. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Advocates of pre-Clovis settlement suggest that, for thousands or even tens of thousands of years, pre-Clovis humans remained at low population densities or poorly visible archaeologically, for unknown reasons unprecedented elsewhere in the world. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The cause is yet unknown, but there is speculation linking it to pesticides, fungicides, mites, and parasites. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z Though in a sense the choice had been made already, when I agreed to sail into the unknown with these peculiar children. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z I became increasingly aware that the man was staring at me, not impolitely, but as though he were studying an unknown specimen. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Though he was entirely self-taught, never learned Latin, and had scant understanding of Linnaean classifications, he was a prize plant collector, with an uncanny knack for finding and recognizing unknown species. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z Apparently Voldemort was dwelling endlessly on the unknown youth with the gleeful face, whose name and whereabouts, Harry felt sure, Voldemort knew no better than he did. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z You might imagine, from a comfortable distance, that people who live, year in and year out, on $6 to $10 an hour have discovered some survival stratagems unknown to the middle class. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z This doesn’t look like a face but like an unknown vegetable, a mangled bulb or tuber, something that’s grown wrong. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z In our ignorance, we continue to push and pull, to pollute the atmosphere and brighten the land, oblivious of the fact that the long-term consequences are largely unknown. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “Easy. You see, I agree with that lunatic Lemoncello: ‘Knowledge not shared remains unknown.’ Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z In the paint of the washroom cubicle someone unknown had scratched: Aunt Lydia sucks. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z Still, it was strange to find himself in an unknown house, sitting on this sofa by himself. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z When he thought of it he felt uneasy and in some unknown way afraid. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z It seemed to alter moment by moment before my eyes, becoming for brief flashes a totally unknown building with a significance much deeper and far more real than any I had noticed before. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Galileo was racing against unknown, imaginary competitors from the moment he realized Jupiter had moons. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z This was an astonishing leap into the unknown. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z In time, staying there seemed far simpler than moving once again to another, unknown place. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z She touched one with a bare foot, as if the plait were some sort of unknown animal. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z In the same way, and perhaps quite unknown to us, other plants that we ruthlessly eradicate may be performing a function that is necessary to the health of the soil. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z In the faint patch of light below the ragged hole in the roof, a rabbit was standing—no Efrafan, a rabbit unknown to the General. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Another rider, name unknown, lost the other Washington letter, in which the general had written to a dentist in Philadelphia. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z So overwhelming was the tropical forest that I thought Calakmul’s history would remain forever unknown. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z They stayed there on the island for several days, waiting for the unknown. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z As I looked at him that evening sitting on the verandah of a house in an unknown village, I wanted him to ask me if I was fine. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z It had brought with it the sweat and the dreams of men who had once left to search for the unknown, and for gold and adventure—and for the Pyramids. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The river wound into the dark forest, cutting its serpentine route into the unknown. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z Suddenly the safe and sane world I thought I knew is filled with terrifying unknowns. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z The discovery—an unknown city in Peru that was as old as the Egyptian Pyramids—set off headlines around the world. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z She knew people and times unknown to him. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z I knew my mother made up anything to warn me, to help me avoid some unknown danger. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z On Sunday morning, with Garfield's fate unknown, former President Rutherford Hayes wrote in his diary that the country faced a disaster if Garfield died. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z For instance, the simple equation 4x – 12 = 0 describes how an unknown number x is related to 4, 12, and 0. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z The three lines are organized by urgency, as in, those with sicknesses versus those of us dying today by some unknown force versus bored visitors. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z To give these up for three months for the terrors of the uncomfortable and unknown seemed crazy. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’m sorry,” he apologized to the unknown ancestor who had patiently made the quilt. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z When unknown white people visited our community during the day, the road they entered on was observed and the message of their coming was passed door-to-door by telephone, bicycle messengers, or messengers running on foot. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Suddenly the shape of the elements he has always avoided becomes more distinct, the key unknown factor clear. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Mammals characteristically nuzzle, fondle, hug, caress, pet, groom and love their young, behavior essentially unknown among the reptiles. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z In the South everyone knew you, but coming North was a jump into the unknown. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z They contribute previously unknown mass to the universe as well. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The three of them jumped through, into the unknown. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z We fled to Boston once, through the Bay, and all had lain before us, novel and unknown. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z Lindsey cut the top of her shoulder on the way down, and it bled through her white T-shirt, formed a little map of some unknown continent. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z The biggest unknown was what would happen to a man who stayed weightless for a long time. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z But while everyone else in our freshman class had gone to the same middle school and entered Lynbrook with their cliques already well established, my friend group and I were the unknown entities. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z He picked up his pencil and began to try to untangle an equation with unknown x’s and unnamed y’s. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z And the seventh face . . . the Stranger was neither male nor female, yet both, ever the outcast, the wanderer from far places, less and more than human, unknown and unknowable. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Indeed, a sizable faction refused to accept the fact that two unknown men, two thieving strangers, were solely responsible. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z Tom sang most of the time, but it was chiefly nonsense, or else perhaps a strange language unknown to the hobbits, an ancient language whose words were mainly those of wonder and delight. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z I was also determined to boost our reputation in the rest of Africa where we were still relatively unknown. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Her hand moved in conjunction with her eyes, in unknown ways, just as it had that day in the bookstore when she’d transcribed her name in Bengali letters. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z These men had been dismissed with disgrace from the army of the Norwegian king Fortinbras for some unknown betrayal. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z From my reading, it seemed to me that Texas is emerging as a separate force and that the South is in the pain of labor with the nature of its future child still unknown. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z "That door was supposed to be locked," said the unknown metallic voice. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z Initially the bearing capacity of its ground was “practically an unknown quality,” as one engineer put it. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z But it was nebulous, too much of an unknown. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Where were the lighthouses to guide my newly built ship of knowledge just setting sail on a perilous journey upon a vast, turbulent and unknown ocean of life? Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Then we leaned against the wall, our bellies distended before us, and awaited the unknown. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z Learning to Rule The details of Cleopatra’s childhood are unknown, but there is no doubt that she was extremely well educated. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z Not if you know of anyone you can trust, and who would be willing to go by your side — and that you would be willing to take into unknown perils. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Even after I submitted the report, the only thing that appeared to change for the old man was that he got transferred, for reasons unknown, to a cell upstairs on R-gallery. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Now my parents had been murdered in their own bed by an unknown killer for a reason I couldn’t imagine. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z But the microscope brought into vision a world previously unknown; it was hard to establish how the new information it produced related to established knowledge. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z “There was never any question of the body being someone unknown,” he said. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z ‘Even our Experimental Philosophers and Physicians find, that an experiment that hits ofttimes, quite misseth afterwards on other Subjects, and they know not why. A course of effects may oft come from unknown causes.’ The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Was it just yesterday that she had bent over the body of an unknown squirrel in Tootie’s backyard? Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z He spoke to the unknown ancestor, explaining that this was one of his children. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z “Which is that the outside world is unknown and potentially dangerous.” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z I felt deeply ashamed and guilty of some unknown wrong. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Each morning, despite the unknowns, they made their legs move. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z For unknown reasons, he wore one pant leg markedly shorter than the other. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z On the other hand, the future is unknown and open, so it might well have the curvature required. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z It often seems to me as though it were the vibrating, shuddering air that with a noiseless leap springs upon us; or as though the front itself emitted an electric current which awakened unknown nerve-centres. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z Someone with influence had made sure that the inquest was a sham—the cause of death was listed as “unknown.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z If we were to stop asking questions, then how would we ever uncover the unknowns of the universe? Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z There had also been a very strange custom, whose origin was unknown, of marching every Sunday morning past a boar’s skull which was nailed to a post in the garden. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z But such speculation about unknowns is futile, and with the combination of mental and physical exhaustion, I soon fell deeply asleep. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z What was more frightening was the unknown: the occasional corpse hanging on the gate without an explanation, the swift kick by the blokova for no reason. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z I can still make out thousands of people milling around or walking to unknown destinations. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The urge to penetrate unknown realms, to achieve something original, may be felt by every one of us now and than. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Whether Philip ever saw the manuscript is unknown, but Poma de Ayala's work—one of the few non- European accounts of Inka life—is now a fundamental scholarly source. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z However, this option, quite aside from the misgivings his lordship was bound to have as regards gossip travelling, entailed my having to rely on unknown quantities just when a mistake could prove most costly. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z Outside, the now-empty first stage fell away, eventually to crash on some unknown area of the planet below. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z But I’m also feeling all that I have in my life, which includes what I have lost, as well as the great unknown of what life might still bring me. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z The fitful, ghost-powered trolleys were always making unexpected turns, shut- ding her off into unknown parts of the city. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z But for Elizabeth Bentley, the end of the war was the beginning of a terrifying, unknown stage in her life. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Opening it, he saw a little girl, quite unknown to him. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z Tracks of unknown creatures in the mortified loess. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z She seemed the emblem of my past life; and he, I was now to array myself to meet, the dread, but adored, type of my unknown future day. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z Diversion and recreation, with the exception of reading, were unknown. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z We scooped up cups of dirty water, hoping to find a fish or unknown treasure. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z “Your names are not unknown among the bards of the north.” The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z “We were about to go into the unknown, and no one could say what it held.” Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z Common sense won out—the maze held even more unknowns than his situation inside. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z And he was determined to be the first to explore the unknown river and change the map of the world. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z But once lunch started and Mr. Harding and I spent fifteen minutes on x and y and solving for the unknown, I felt like a new person. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z He offered to instead take Roosevelt down the unknown River of Doubt to survey it and fill in the blank space on the map. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z She bought oils and pomades, applying one and then the other, on wet hair and then on dry hair, willing an unknown miracle to happen. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Yet I was more afraid of an unknown place. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z They had only just reached the grave of the unknown Abbott. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z I don’t know yet, I am rife with unknowns, part of the hunt is to make the not-known known. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z But it would appear that for unknown centuries, until the Christian missionaries came, heroism was enough. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z But here an x has to stand for an unknown number. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z |
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