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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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... fine way of Judging, the well-known Characters of Mr. Pitt, and his Deputies, are sufficient to wipe of such ridiculous Imputations; and 'tis a most lamentable Truth, that they have often-times had in their Charge Villains of the deepest Die; Persons of Quality and great Worth, for whom ...

— The History of the Remarkable Life of John Sheppard • Daniel Defoe

... of course, was more or less Greek to the boys who stood watching the thinning party, as one bidarka after another was skilfully run out through the surf and as skilfully put under way in the long swell of the sea. At last a well-known figure detached itself from a group where he had been talking and approached them. The Aleut chief addressed himself ...

— The Young Alaskans • Emerson Hough

... "Sand," Maelifell's sand. (3) "Nones," the well-known canonical hour of the day, the ninth hour from six a.m., that is, about three o'clock when one of the ...

— Njal's Saga • Unknown Icelanders

... difficult lessons given in too noisy a room, as the nervous strain is very great under such circumstances. We should remember that great concentration is needed for a young child to follow these dictations, and we must be exceedingly careful in enforcing that strict attention for too long a time. A well-known specialist says that such exercises should not be allowed at first to take up more than a minute or two at a time; then, that their duration should gradually extend to five and ten minutes. The ...

— Froebel's Gifts • Kate Douglas Wiggin

... the hill and gazed at the well-known landscape beneath him, where in the foreground lay the great drill-ground ...

— 'Jena' or 'Sedan'? • Franz Beyerlein

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