Golfo dos or delos Reis", which thus seems to have been the earliest name bestowed upon what is now known as Delagoa Bay).
When it became known that we had taken these men, a crowd proceeded to the house where our merchandise was kept, and conducted our men to the house of the factor, without doing them any harm.
It is probable, moreover, that if Castanheda had known the name of the author to whom he was so greatly indebted, he would have mentioned it in his book.
The country of Prester John (Abyssinia) wasknown as "Lower India.
This island is still known as "Seal" Island, although its former visitors no longer make their appearance.
Of course these are merely rough approximations, as the course taken by Vasco da Gama and the incidents of this memorable passage are not known to us.
Their intention, we are expected to believe, was made known to the captain-major by a mysteriously-worded message shouted from ship to ship by Coelho.
As the Ephemerides of Regiomontanus were printed in 1474, they naturally became more widely known than those of Zacuto, which only circulated in MS.
Such an appointment would not have been made had not Vasco da Gama already been known as a man of energy, capacity and competent knowledge.
Still further south there are three islands, representing the Mascarenhas, then known by Malabari names.
Delagoa Bay seems to have been known originally as "Golfo dos tres Reis magos" (Gulf of the Three Kings); see p.
We have knowntoo much of sorrow; yet, 'twere wise To turn our thoughts from what mischance has ravish'd, And rest on what it leaves.
Hast thou knownme From childhood, up to man, and canst thou fear I am so weak of soul, like a thin reed, To bend and stagger at such puny blast?
The effect of music on patients suffering from nervous depression is as well known now as it was in Saul's day; Shakespeare knew something about it.
Shall decay, nor be known in their place, while the palm-wine shall stanch Every wound of man's spirit in winter.
Her intimate friends were mostly what were then known as strong-minded women--I suppose to-day they would seem like timid, shy violets.
He is known throughout all time as "the tailor's son," and Browning has given him in this immortal poem a condemnation that much of his work does not really deserve.
And they are thorough masters of ridicule--the most powerful weapon known to humanity.
The reason why Browning could not forgive Andrea was not because he was Andrea del Sarto, the son of a tailor; it was because he was known as the Faultless Painter, because he could actually realise his dreams.
Clive was one of those exceedingly rare individuals who have never known the sensation of physical fear.
Footnote 5: Spring and autumn are hardly known to the Laplanders.
The wellknown voice that cheer'd thee heretofore, These soothing accents thou must hear no more.
They were in command of a body of men, about sixty in number, known as the Georgia Refugees.
His favorite time for moving was with the setting sun, and then it was known that the march would continue all night.
Making himself known to this party he was conveyed to the general, who had changed his ground since his party left him, which occasioned many hours' search even before his own men could find him.
It was knownthat the large mansion of Mrs. Motte occupied the greater part of the area of the fort; but a few yards of ground within the works remained uncovered by it.
From this speech of Tarleton, we are given to understand that the two popular names were derived, by which Sumter and Marion were ever after known by their followers.
Thomson (better known in after-times as Count Rumford), prepared to ascend Cooper river.
Its preparations were not conducted with such caution, however, but that they became known to the vigilant friends of the Americans in and about the city.
Before striking any sudden blow, he has been known to march sixty or seventy miles, taking no other food in twenty-four hours, than a meal of cold potatoes and a draught of cold water.
The fall of Cornwallis, at Yorktown, was known in the American camp on the 9th of November.
They met, but, unhappily, they recognized in each other well known personal opponents.
Presuming upon his well-known services, and the favor in which he was held by the public, he refused to submit to the ordinary legal process, and bade defiance to the sheriff.
Nor eye has seen, nor ear has heard, Nor sense nor reasonknown What joys the Father hath prepar'd For those that love the Son.
Their glory shines with equal beams; Their essence is for ever one, Tho' they are known by different names The Father God, and God the Son.
The whole creation can afford But some faint shadows of my Lord: Nature to make his beauties known Must mingle colours not her own.
Love is the grace that keeps her power In all the realms above; There faith and hope are known no more, But saints for ever love.
My dear Almighty, and my God, How little art thou known By all the judgments of thy rod, And blessings of thy throne!
Thus far the Lord has led me on, Thus far his power prolongs my days, And every evening shall make known Some fresh memorial of his grace.
Yet with my God I leave my cause, And trust his promis'd grace; He rules me by his well-known laws Of love and righteousness.
What if to make his terror known He lets his patience long endure, Suffering vile rebels to go on And seal their own destruction sure!
Nothing but truth before his throne, With honour can appear, The painted hypocrites are known Thro' the disguise they wear.
Clamour, and wrath, and war be gone, Envy and spite for ever cease, Let bitter words no more be known Amongst the saints, the sons of peace.
Among the staff was a mistress who was known as Miss Miranda--she seemed to have no surname.
She knew she was known in the town as 'the girl who could write shorthand.
The point was not whether or not she had known or guessed the existence of this unseen and formidable river; the point was that she was thrillingly on its brink, in the dark.
All that day she had felt so weak and shy and light and helpless and guilty that she had positively not known what she was doing; she had moved in a phantom world.
IV The conversation had turned upon Bradlaugh, the shameless free-thinker, the man who had known how to make himself the centre of discussion in every house in England.
IV There was an irruption of Jimmie and Johnnie, and three of the Swetnam brothers, including himknown as the Ineffable.
She had only come downstairs in response to her mother's direct summons, and instantly on seeing her she had known that Mr. Cannon was not a traitor.
It was known that they were more or less together, and that he stood between Florrie and the world.
After all Janet, with every circumstance in her favour, had not known how to conquer Edwin Clayhanger.
Besides, Captain Logan, a friendly chief, lived for some years in what is now known as Logan's Valley.
James told the young man, "I am sorry to see you in such a condition; I have known you from a boy, and always loved you.
Peter Crum, a worthy man, well known and highly respected by all the settlers in the neighborhood, was a near neighbor of Jackson's.
No savages had been in the neighborhood for some time, and, in fact, no friendly Indians either, except some few who resided in what is now known as Tuckahoe Valley.
The massacre in question, when the facts were known after Dunmore's treaty, was deeply deplored, and the wanton butchery of Cressap execrated.
It appears that these three men started over the river, and ran up what is now known as O'Friel's Ridge, hotly pursued by a single savage.
Among all the early pioneers of the upper end of the Juniata Valley none was better known to the Indians than Thomas Coleman.
How many of his Majesty's red-coats it riddled before the flag of freedom floated over the land, is only known to the God of battles.
Her name will always be connected with the Republican movement in France; as a salon leader, femme de lettres, journalist, and female politician, no woman is better known in France in the nineteenth century.
In 1758 she entered the opera as a ballet girl, but very little is known of her during the first years of her career except in connection with her numerous lovers.
Her love for Guibert was known to her friends, but was a secret from her platonic lover, D'Alembert.
In her book Les Passions she endeavored to crush her calumniators; she wrote: "Condemned to celebrity, without being able to be known I find need of making myself known by my writings.
As she rode through the city in her pure white raiment, serenely radiant in her own innocence, she was the embodiment of all that was highest and purest in the Revolution--one of the best and greatest women known to French history.
He glanced quickly round, then he raised his head and softly whistled the well-known tune.
None but a true son of the Fatherland--indeed none but a pure-blooded Berliner--would have even known what they meant.
And by our side like a marble hero, Florian, Florian as I have knownand loved him, Florian faithful and brave and true.
How had she been transformed without his noticing it from the awkward little school-girl he had known into this enchanting flower-like loveliness?
It is not until the two become one that they can be known for two.
Repetition, that is to say, is the strongest generator of emphasis known to language.
It will have blood; they say blood win have blood: Stones have been known to move and trees to speak; Augurs and understood relations have By maggot-pies and choughs and rooks brought forth The secret'st man of blood.
But this also is vanity, there is one end appointed alike to all, fact goes the way of fiction, and what is known is no more perdurable than what is made.
The idea pursues form not only that it may be known to others, but that it may know itself, and the body in which it becomes incarnate is not to be distinguished from the informing soul.
Life is spent in learning the meaning of great words, so that some idle proverb, known for years and accepted perhaps as a truism, comes home, on a day, like a blow.
Had she only known whether Beryl was safe, her mind would have been quite at rest.
In latter years his kingdom grew large and prosperous, and it was no longer known as the Village of Youth, but was called the City of Content.
Had she known of it, the fact would only have annoyed her somewhat, and made her eyes a trifle more wistful than they usually were.
She had never known any home beyond this beautiful palace.
The air is softer here than any I have known before, the birds sing sweeter songs, the flowers breathe a rarer perfume; for the first time in my life I feel happy; everything is fresh and young, and full of hope.
Thou must call her Myra," said a voice, "for she hath knownonly bitterness on the breast of her foster-mother.
Though it was all around me in Nature, still I had never known it; and there was something so imperfect, so earthly, in the great princes who wished to marry me.
I have heard thy plaints and caught thy tears, and I have sorrowed for thee and tried to soothe thy woe, for I too have known bitterness and despair.
Having known them fail so often in pursuit of mortally wounded animals, I had my doubts.
I fancy something definite will be known to-morrow.
We passed a Yarkand merchant with a few horses, who stated that he had seen a dozen or so of yak in a spot known to Moosa.
We passed on through some fine rich herbage--a sort of lucerne abundant--and finally dismounted at a spot where were two Yarkandies, apparently known to Moosa and Abdool.
All the natives of the place came to look at us, and visit the shikarries, Phuttoo being known to some of them.
It is very poisonous and should be carefully avoided, or rather, it should be thoroughly known that it may be avoided.
I have known several families to eat of it, making about half of the children in each family sick.
This outer layer is known as the volva or volva-like peridium, which soon disappears.
Therefore the gill-bearing fungi areknown under the family name, Agaricaceæ, or more generally known as Agarics.
It will be readily known by the downy covering of the cap.
I have found it in only one place, near what is known as the Lone-Tree Hill near Chillicothe.
This plant is also known as Dictyophora Ravenelii, Burt.
It grows from two to four inches high and is known by most people as the Sponge mushroom.
This gelatinous mass is known as protoplasm or plasmodium, and the motive power of the plasmodium has suggested to many that they should be placed in the animal kingdom, or called fungus animals.
The halftone and the description ought to make the plant known to the most casual reader.
This is perhaps the widest knownof all mushrooms, familiarly known as the "Pink-gilled mushroom.
This genus is known by its stout, fleshy stem, without any evidence of a ring, and by the gills being attached to the stem and having a notch in their edges near or at the extremity.
I have known people to eat it without harm, but the chances are that it will make most persons sick.
He was hardly a cleric, or he would have knownthe Boy Bishop.
This refers to the mythical God of Day, and is not to be confounded with a member of a well-known firm of manufacturers of blacking.
For future reference, it would be known as "the Big Big D-ivorce Case.
When I went to Melun for that well-known job of the forged coin I was a thimble-rigger.
I go to work in houses to open doors where keys are lost, I have a confidential business, and if it were known that I employed a freed convict amongst my workmen I should lose my customers.
For reasons best known to myself I was obliged to quit Germany in this attire.
But still I cannot help saying it does surprise me to be taken notice of by a young person like you, who most likely has never known what trouble was.
If I had notknown you, I should not have been in prison.
It is the captain of the dormitory, who is known by the name of the Walking Skeleton, who is at the head of this plot; and he is like a wild beast after this Germain, for so the object of their dislike is called.
We hope, therefore, to be excused for having grouped about many prisoners known to the readers of this history other secondary characters, intended to put in relief certain ideas of criticism, and to complete the initiation of a prison life.
Several old offenders had known his father, who had been executed, and others his brother, who was at the galleys; he was received and instantly patronised by these veterans in crime with savage interest.
Professor Forbes has remarked, that few geologists are aware how large a proportion of all known species of fossils are founded on single specimens, while a still greater number are founded on a few individuals discovered in one spot.
The ornithology of our own country affords one well-known and striking exemplification of the law of a limited specific range; for the common grouse (Tetra scoticus) occurs nowhere in the known world except in the British isles.
In regard to marine infusoria found in volcanic tuff; it is wellknown that on the shores of the island of Cephalonia in the Mediterranean (Proceedings, Geol.
The remarkable break between the most modern of the known secondary rocks and the oldest tertiary, may be apparent only, and ascribable to the present deficiency of our information.
Much controversy arose respecting the nature of these remains, the causes which may have brought them into so singular a position, and the want of a specific agreement between them and known animals and plants.
As the mud is known to extend for eighty miles farther into the gulf, an enormous thickness of matter must have been deposited in "the swatch.
The voyages of Garay and Vasquez de Ayllon threw new light on the discoveries of Ponce, and the general outline of the coasts of Florida became knownto the Spaniards.
Moulton, in his "History of New York," inclines to the view that this point was near what is now known as Manhattanville in New York City.
The best opinion now inclines to accept the conclusions reached by Captain Beecher of the British Navy some fifty years ago, that the landing was made on what is known as Watling's Island, one of the Bahamas.
Hall says its value "consists not only in confirming the voyage itself, but also in supplying a wealth of names and details not previously known to exist.
After the pioneer voyage down the Mississippi, made by Joliet and Marquette, had become known in Europe, it intensified an already active spirit of discovery.
Violent storms harassed them, and it was not until the 21st of October (St. Ursala's day) that they reached the headland still known as Cape Virgins.
The very desperateness of it was all in Magellan's favor; for so far away had they come from the known world that retreat meant certain death.
Indeed, had the Northmen made itknown to other Europeans, it is quite unlikely that any active interest would have been taken in it.
In 1603 he was ordained, and he soon became knownas an able preacher.
He sold his castles at Lewes and at Hurstmonceaux and built largely near Brighton, where the district known as Kemp Town was founded by him.
Thomas Tash, of London, was one of the Commissioners of Custom for England and Wales in 1752, but there appears to be no more known about him.
He raised a regiment of cavalry, known as "Montagu's Carabineers.
He was known as the Duke of York, but nevertheless his book-stamps show a Royal Crown.
She appointed Ludovicus Vives, a well-known Spanish savant and author, to be tutor to her daughter Mary.
Illustration] If now the dividing lines of a quartered coat and those of a coat divided per Saltire be combined, we get a division known as Gyronny, common in Scottish heraldry.
The Earl was fond of scientific pursuits and was known as "The Wizard Earl," and was a great smoker.
The first is known as Trick, and in this manner colours were marked until the seventeenth century.
He was author of a very useful compilation known as Musgrave's Obituary; it gives reference to places where the various persons deceased are mentioned, and also further particulars.
November 1770) went as a young man to Venice, and quickly became known as an ardent collector of books and objects of art generally.
He was known as the "Good Earl of Bedford," and entertained Queen Elizabeth both at Chenies and at Woburn.
He wrote a well-known book called The Legend of Captain Jones, which was published in London in 1631.
Bishoprics and the Archbishopric of Corinth, but was usually known as Cardinal York.
Prince James, who is knownas the Old Pretender in distinction to his son Charles Edward, the Young Pretender, is also known as the Chevalier St. George.
This is known as the Peltier Effect, the heat not being due to the resistance to the current.
This much was known about electricity over 2,000 years ago.
The one having two pipe connections and a light regulating spring is known as the excess pressure head; the other, with a single pipe connection and heavy regulating spring, as the maximum pressure head.
How can it be knownwhen the wedges are set up too tight and the driving box sticks, and in what manner can they be pulled down?
How can it be known if an eccentric has slipped on the axle?
Air, like coal and its gases, must be heated before they will unite to form what is known as combustion and so as not to reduce the temperature of the fire-box below the igniting point of the gases.
The top header fire tube type, known as the "Schmidt Superheater.
De Levis is known to be rolling, as I amknown to be stony.
But if you'd known I was leaving a woman for you, you'd never have married me.
Gloomily] If only Ronny weren't known to be so broke.
At this time his name was known to the editors of most magazines.
A maiden who can be caught without chasing is pretty generally not worth catching; and cynics have been known to say that the pleasure of stalking your bride is perhaps the best part of matrimony.
They were known as 'The Tribe of the Scorchers,' and were a happy and a genial people, but their presence was inimical to the rising hopes of the drama.
The old Turk was had up before the British Consul; but his character for honesty, his known wealth, the benevolence of his character, his own good honest old face, all pleaded too strongly for him.
He was evidently wellknown at the table, and was popular.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "known" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: ascertained; comprehended; conceived; current; public; realized; recognized; understood
