The accused person was one Jane Wenham, better known as the Witch of Walkerne; and the persons who were alleged to have suffered from her witchcraft were two young women, named Thorne and Street.
The witch-doctor alluded to is better known by the name of the cunning man, and has a large practice in the counties of Lincoln and Nottingham.
Exochorda grandiflora, better known as "Pearl Bush," is one of the most distinctively ornamental shrubs in cultivation.
An excellent, low-growing, early flowering shrub is Pyrus Japonica, better known as Japan Quince.
Poet, and who perhaps one of these days may be better known; but poets, like anatomical subjects, are worth but little till dead.
How perilous, indeed, was the position of the theological expert in the war of dialectics is seen in the case of the Doctor Fundatissimus, Egidio Colonna, better known as Egidio da Roma.
Thus was organized the Order of the Strict Observance, better knownas the Recollects.
Tempted by the bishopric of Jesi, he resigned, and in 1248 was succeeded by Giovanni Borelli, better known as John of Parma, who at the time was professor of theology in the University of Paris.
Nothing," says he, "is better known of Boileau than that he had an injudicious and peevish contempt of modern Latin; and therefore his profession of regard was probably the effect of his civility rather than approbation.
Now, nothing is better known of Boileau than that he was singularly sparing of compliments.
Johnson grown old, Johnson in the fulness of his fame and in the enjoyment of a competent fortune, is better known to us than any other man in history.
Wolcott, better known as "Peter Pindar," that way.
Macaulay says of Johnson grown old: "In the fulness of his fame, and in the enjoyment of a competent fortune, he is better known to us than any other man in history.
Colton, better known by his nom de plume of "Lacon," is a vivid illustration of the eccentricities of genius.
To most readers she is better known by reason of her liaison with Voltaire, of whom she is regarded as a mere satellite, than for her work in science.
Her name was Anna Murphy, better known to the world as Mrs. Jameson.
The name of this ardent votary of science was Miss Ellen Swallow, better known to the world as Mrs. Ellen H.
The most celebrated astronomer of the early Renaissance was John Mueller, of Koenigsburg, better known as Regiomontanus.
A no less remarkable inspirer, but in an entirely different sphere of activity, was the devout and spotless Italian maiden, Chiara Schiffi, better known as St. Clara.
From Templeton we set our faces towards the hamlet of Eglwysfair-glan-Taf, better known, probably, to the Saesneg traveller as Whitland railway junction.
Gerald de Barri, the author of this panegyric (better known as Giraldus Cambrensis), can scarce find words to express his admiration for the home of his boyhood.
The man of most note, after De Monts and Champlain, was Jean de Biencourt, a rich nobleman of Picardy, better known in Acadian history as the Baron de Poutrincourt, who had distinguished himself as a soldier in the civil wars.
In this, no doubt, he was influenced by the rise of a Progressive Party, or as it is better known, the United Farmers' Organisation.
Very lovely is the tale of Nur al-Din and the Damsel Anis al Jalis[FN#445] better known as "Noureddin and the Beautiful Persian.
Trechsel's press corrector and general editor was a young scholar named Josse Bade, of Asch, near Ghent, better known by the Latin form of his name as Jodocus Badius Ascensius, or Ascensianus.
There the first printers, three Germans, had been invited to set up their presses at Paris in the Sorbonne by two of its professors, Guillaume Fichet and Jean Heynlin, of Stein, better known in his own day as Johannes de Lapide.
Collected by Stephen Bateman, better known as the "Batman uppon Bartholomew," i.
In 1563 he printed the first edition of Acts and Monumentes of these latter and perillous days touching matters of the Church, better known as Foxe's Book of Martyrs.
The name Phinehas (apparently of Egyptian origin) is better known as that of a son of Eli, a member of the priesthood of Shiloh, and Eleazar is only another form of Eliezer the son of Moses, to whose kin Eli is said to have belonged.
Both Stedman and Stoddard were of New England birth, as was also the third to be mentioned, William Winter (born 1836), better known as the lifelong dramatic critic of the metropolis.
Zaglossus has apparently priority as a name; but Proechidna is better known.
Thrynomys (better known perhaps as Aulacodus) is a genus of African Rodent, containing some four species.
A related form is Aconaemys (better known as Schizodon), with similar external characters; it inhabits high localities on the Andes.
Upon the popular poetry of Tuscany Lorenzo himself, and his favourite Angelo Ambrogini of Montepulciano, better known as Poliziano, founded a new school of Italian song.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "better known" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
