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Well-known

adjective

Widely or fully known. "Well-known facts" , "A politician who is well known" , "These facts are well known"

Frequently experienced; known closely or intimately. Synonym: long-familiar. "A well-known voice reached her ears"

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"Well-known" Quotes from Famous Books

... this turf, that formerly he pressed With agile feet, a dog is laid to rest; Him, as he sleeps, no well-known sound shall stir, The rabbit's patter, or the pheasant's whir; The keeper's "Over"—far, but well defined, That speeds the startled partridge down the wind; The whistled warning as the winged ones ...

— The Dog's Book of Verse • Various

... Expression.—On account of the evident connection between knowledge and action, the law of expression has formulated itself into a well-known pedagogical law of method—no impression without expression. Like many other educational maxims, however, this law may be interpreted in too wide a sense. The law of expression in education claims only that valuable experiences, ...

— Ontario Normal School Manuals: Science of Education • Ontario Ministry of Education

... suspicious about the whole thing, from the beginning," the newsman was saying. "So I checked. If you recall, the actor impersonating Salgath gestured rather freely with his hands, in imitation of a well-known mannerism of the real Salgath Trod; at one point, the ball of his right thumb was presented directly to the pickup. Here's a still of ...

— Time Crime • H. Beam Piper

... Danilo Petrovitch, of Nyegushi, who, be it noted, was already in holy orders, was chosen as Vladika. A man of well-known courage such as the country needed, he accepted office, but was not consecrated till 1700. Till then the Vladikas of Montenegro had been consecrated by the Serb Patriarch at Ipek. But in 1680 Arsenius the Patriarch had decided ...

— Twenty Years Of Balkan Tangle • Durham M. Edith

... a little book of fables in Castilian verse for the use of schools. The fable of the young philosopher illustrates the thought in Pope's well-known lines: ...

— The Social Cancer - A Complete English Version of Noli Me Tangere • Jose Rizal

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