Unbeknownst

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Laurence Urdang Unbeknownst to many but historians and other researchers, librarians, older Britishers, those who rummage about among antiquarian books, and other eccentrics are the periodicals published in Great Britain and, to some extent, in America from the seventeenth century onward.

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  • Laurence Urdang Unbeknownst to many but historians and other researchers, librarians, older Britishers, those who rummage about among antiquarian books, and other eccentrics are the periodicals published in Great Britain and, to some extent, in America from the seventeenth century onward. —  VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XVII No 4
  • Unbeknownst to either, they were fondly referred to by the rest of the mission team as the Boy Scout and the Undertaker. —  The Dig
  • Unbeknownst to Tiffany and Nikolai their escape had become front-page news throughout Europe and America. —  Dance Of Desire
  • Unbeknownst to Sissy, she was following in the fingersteps of quite a number of little ladies who rode that range. —  Even Cowgirls Get The Blues
  • Unbeknownst to anyone, she was very ill. —  Buried Alive, The Biography of Janis Joplin
 

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