The house, which was in those days a very lofty and handsome palazzo, is now known by the name of the Corte del Millioni for a reason that I will tell you presently.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

The date of the Translation of Polo is not known, but it may be supposed to have been executed about the above date, probably in the Monastery of Lismore (county of Waterford).
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

The “confident belief” expressed by the Board of Health in 1874, that rapid transit would solve the problem, is now known to have been a vain hope.
— from How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York by Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis

He is not haunted by the ghosts or tail ends of half-finished tasks, of skipped problems; is not kept awake by a troubled conscience.
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden

“For my own part, I neither know nor desire to know who or what you are.
— from The Adventures of Roderick Random by T. (Tobias) Smollett

the more they eat the more they nourish themselves: eat and live, as the proverb is, not knowing that only repairs man, which is well concocted, not that which is devoured.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Its exact mode of preparation is not known.
— from Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome by Apicius

Nay, I will seek everywhere as I go—for the place is not known where the arrow fell.' '
— from Kim by Rudyard Kipling

4049 The site of this place is now known as Ritri, on the south side of a small peninsula, which projects into the bay of Erythræ.
— from The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 1 (of 6) by the Elder Pliny

For my own part, I never knew what I should write next when I was making Verses.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

Though a thousand leagues lie between thee and the Red Land, and thou speakest in that where our power is not known; though thou shouldst be sheltered by thy native island, and defended by thy kindred ocean, yet, even there, I warn thee to cross thyself when thou dost so much as think of the Holy and Invisible Tribunal, and to retain thy thoughts within thine own bosom; for the Avenger may be beside thee, and thou mayst die in thy folly.
— from Anne of Geierstein; Or, The Maiden of the Mist. Volume 2 (of 2) by Walter Scott

Fiscal year: calendar year @Kyrgyzstan:Communications Telephones - main lines in use: 357,000 (1995) Telephones - mobile cellular: NA Telephone system: poorly developed; about 100,000 unsatisfied applications for household telephones domestic: principally microwave radio relay; one cellular provider, probably limited to Bishkek region international: connections with other CIS countries by landline or microwave radio relay and with other countries by leased connections with Moscow international gateway switch and by satellite; satellite earth stations - 1 Intersputnik and 1 Intelsat; connected internationally by the Trans-Asia-Europe (TAE) fiber-optic line Radio broadcast stations: AM 12 (plus 10 repeater stations), FM 14, shortwave 2 (1998) Radios: 520,000 (1997) Television broadcast stations: NA (repeater stations throughout the country relay programs from Russia, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, and Turkey) (1997) Televisions: 210,000 (1997) Internet Service Providers (ISPs): NA @Kyrgyzstan:Transportation Railways: total: 370 km in common carrier service; does not include industrial lines broad gauge: 370 km 1.520-m gauge (1990) Highways: total: 18,500 km paved: 16,854 km (including 140 km of expressways) unpaved: 1,646 km (1996 est.)
— from The 2000 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

But the pure phenomenon is not known to science; it is represented by art: and the noumena, in so far as they are known, are also phenomena, since it would be arbitrary to break up unity and synthesis.
— from Logic as the Science of the Pure Concept by Benedetto Croce

Of necessity it will be found that we shall occasionally include subjects which some of our subscribers already have, but the importance of this duplication is liable to be exaggerated in the minds of those who might notice it when the number of other desirable plates is not kept in view.
— from The Brochure Series of Architectural Illustration, Vol. 01, No. 05, May 1895 Two Florentine Pavements by Various

When a gentleman is walking with a lady, he lifts his hat when she bows to an acquaintance, even if the person is not known to him.
— from The Etiquette of To-day by Edith B. (Edith Bertha) Ordway

How the father contemplated the carrying out of the plan is not known; he died ere the son had yet completed his tenth year.
— from Philipp Reis: Inventor of the Telephone A Biographical Sketch by Silvanus P. (Silvanus Phillips) Thompson

I never knew my parents, I never knew my real name.
— from A Successful Shadow; Or, A Detective's Successful Quest by Old Sleuth

He suffered all his life from some mysterious and painful internal disease, the nature of which, precisely, is not known, as the allusions to it, though very frequent throughout his life, are very general, and the physicians of the day, who probably were not very skillful, could not determine what it was, or do any thing effectual to relieve it.
— from King Alfred of England Makers of History by Jacob Abbott

No -449- such poem is now known.
— from Richard Wagner His Life and His Dramas A Biographical Study of the Man and an Explanation of His Work by W. J. (William James) Henderson

Akua nui loa ka! Iahona paha a ike aku, o kuu make no paha ia, no ka mea, ke maka'u honua e mai nei
— from The Hawaiian Romance Of Laieikawai by S. N. Haleole