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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

... Meeting. He had therefore passed much of his time with Major Tifto. And when this visit to Silverbridge was pressed on him he thoughtlessly asked Tifto to go with him. Tifto was delighted. Lord Silverbridge was to be met at Silverbridge by various well-known politicians from the neighbourhood, and Major Tifto was greatly elated by the prospect of such an ...

— The Duke's Children • Anthony Trollope

... looking in vain for a proper berth. All was quiet, every one seemed to be in bed, until I came to the sluices at the end, which just then opened, and the rush of foaming water from these bore me back again in the most helpless plight, until I anchored near the well-known "Etablissement," furled sails, rigged up hatch, ...

— The Voyage Alone in the Yawl "Rob Roy" • John MacGregor

... we want, not quantity; we want absolutely to invert the abominable conditions of the present time by which every exercise of restraint costs an author a fine. It is my personal conviction that almost every well-known living writer is or has been writing too much. "No book, no income" is practically what the world says to an author, and the needy authors make a pace the independent follow; there is no respect for fine ...

— Mankind in the Making • H. G. Wells

... notorious eye-doctor,' I answered, my well-known modesty preventing my entire acquiescence in his manner ...

— The Water Ghost and Others • John Kendrick Bangs

... eruption of Mont Pelee, treating human communities just as an elephant might treat an ant-hill. It is this sense of the immeasurable disproportion in things that a pessimist poet has expressed in the well-known sonnet:— ...

— God and Mr. Wells - A Critical Examination of 'God the Invisible King' • William Archer

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