Well-recognized

Usage examples of known.

It had occurred to Jamie a couple of days before, in the vague way that one recognizes a fact unconsciously known for some time, that Tom Christie was in love with his wife.

For millennia, a few select Ildirans had known that the hydrogues might one day return to cause havoc.

An integral part of the court, albeit a minor one, he was, when he failed his duty, confronted by the single most important fact known to all bureaucrats of any nation or epoch: those above were not interested in excuses, only in results.

This country has known few abler or more eminent men than DeWitt Clinton.

Possibly, with the exception of the historic debates two years earlier, between Lincoln and Douglas, the country has known no abler discussion of great questions.

It was true enough, Elizabeth possessed a very small bust, but as his mother was bedridden and had never laid eyes on her, nor David for that matter, Abraham could not imagine how she could have known this.

Located where the Tailaroam River emptied into the Glittergeist Sea, the port was abustle with traffic as cargo was transferred from barges and keelboats to ocean-going freighters or animal-drawn wagons destined for the numerous towns and cities sprinkled through the vast forest known as the Bell woods.

A mild analgesic in common use is acetylsalicylic acid, better known by what was originally a trade-name, aspirin.

Mara had secured more prestige for the Acoma than they had known in their long, honourable history.

I have both known that Acorus faces a transition in the next few years, one that will change everything.

The grand houses and hospitality were such as Adams had never known, even if, as a self-respecting New Englander, he thought New Yorkers lacking in decorum.

Nothing written in her own hand would survive--no letters, diaries, or legal papers with her signature--nor any correspondence addressed to her by any of her family, and so, since it is also known that letters were frequently read aloud to her, there is reason to believe that Susanna Boylston Adams was illiterate.

A committee was appointed, the Committee of Five, as it became known, consisting of Jefferson, Adams, Roger Sherman, Robert Livingston, and Benjamin Franklin, who had by now returned from his expedition to Canada but was ill and exhausted and rarely seen.

Franklin, who had known Howe in England, introduced Adams and Rutledge.

He and Adams had known each other for years, and Lovell professed only the warmest regard for Adams, as well as for Abigail.