40 Verbs to Use for the Word unknown

Always try to explain the unknown by the known.

and yet, who can forget The heir to Prussia's throne, Who here fought death with labored breath, And faced the great Unknown?

Men are afraid of dying, principally, I believe, because they fear the unknown.

But I turn from this to the brighter side of my life, the intellectual and social side, where I found a delight unknown in the old days of bondage.

I was tired of my enforced idleness, eager to discover the fair unknown (she was again fair, to my fancy!), and I determined to go down, believing that a cane and a crimson velvet slipper on the left foot would provoke a glance of sympathy from certain eyes, and thus enable me to detect them.

They lacked the manhood to brave the unknown in pursuit of the golden fleece; they waited until after years of grinding labor the strike was made and then pounced down upon the claim like vultures on the dead.

His face, or rather his look, was only half in his favor, and when it is necessary to bring an unknown into the life on board, so confined, so intimate, his antecedents should be carefully inquired into.

Of India he knew nothing, of education he knew less, but boldly took it upon him to combine the two unknowns for the earning of his living.

WRESTLING JACOB. Come, O thou traveller unknown, Whom still I hold, but cannot see!

I don't say that there are not certaintiesindeed, I think that it is all certainty, and that we mustn't confuse the unknown with the unknowable.

While the Atheist, then, neither affirms nor denies the unknown, he does deny all which conflicts with the knowledge to which he has already attained.

"Leader of the present so-called realistic school, our author keeps up in this work the reputation she has won of possessing the most minute knowledge of the subjects she handles, by the manner in which she has described the Jewsthe great unknown of humanity.

And he preached on the nothingness of modern science with an extraordinary mystical exaltation, denying the reality of this world, and disclosing the unknown, the mysteries of the Beyond.

I confess that I love the things that I know, and dislike the unknown.

He encountered the fair unknown, though, his acquaintance of the park, occasionally, as she in demure cap and white ruffled apron glided softly her allotted way.

The real scholar learns how to evolve the unknown from the known, and draws near the master.

The sound of crackling twigs was quite close, and we waited breathlessly, eying the green curtain through which we expected the unknown to thrust himself.

But, now that there was to be a separation involving the unknown in its vaguest form, the lad was treated with a tenderness that made the swift days very sweet to the young rebel.

Swifter, ever swifter, her shadow slipped over dune and wady, over hillock and nullah, off away toward the pellucidly clear-golden tints of the horizon beyond which lay the unknown.

Yet think not, though I fall upon the sad, And lingering listen to the fainting tones, Before I strike new chords that seize the old And waft their essence up the music-stair Think not that he was always sad, nor dared To look the blank unknown full in the void:

It is good to love the unknown.

The sudden darkness instantly enveloping me, as the clouds, whose advancing mass I had been watching, made their final rush upon the moon, added its physical shock to this inner sense of desolation, and, in some moods, I should have paused and thought twice before attempting the door, behind which lurked the unknown with its naturally accompanying suggestion of peril.

It seemed to Katie that one would prefer to meet the unknown in a smaller hat.

"One hundred years," quoth Keezar, "And fifty have I told: Now open the new before me, And shut me out the old!" Like a cloud of mist, the blackness Rolled from the magic stone, And a marvellous picture mingled The unknown and the known.

He pulled open the unknown, knew the hand, ran down and turned over to the second page, and found "Julia" at the bottom, and below, the words "with the profoundest gratitude."

40 Verbs to Use for the Word  unknown