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  • TH: Well, beknownst to me, since I follow you on Twitter, so I see them right away.

    Jason Richards: Tim Heidecker And Eric Wareheim Discuss Their Awesome Show & Billion Dollar Movie 2009

  • By June you know Cheney had to know what was going on on who Valerie Plame was, so by executive fiat, beknownst, only to a few she had been officially declassified.

    Think Progress » MSNBC’s Shuster: Signs Point To Rove Indictment 2006

  • Unbeknownst to him, but beknownst to me, there was a game warden three miles behind me.

    grouse Diary Entry grouse 2001

  • Teal was putting on a brave face, but un-beknownst to her, Flinx had been reading her emotions all along.

    Mid Flinx Foster, Alan Dean 1995

  • For some reason only beknownst to omnipotent powers, Rosie O'Donnell actually almost had sex with Angelina Jolie.

    BricksAndStonesGossip.com 2009

  • 3 The slow decay of the Mayan civilization mimics our own in this Great American tragicomedy, beknownst of economic liberalization and free market ideals.

    Unlock the Door, Open Your Heart and Surf the Rifting Singularity Amy Geeleher Burt 2011

  • "It’s well beknownst that the Leprechawn has a purse that’s got the charmed shillin’.

    Irish Wonders 1878

  • One of the most marked peculiarities of the Leprechawn family is their intense hatred of schools and schoolmasters, arising, perhaps, from the ridicule of them by teachers, who affect to disbelieve in the existence of the Leprechawn and thus insult him, for "it’s very well beknownst, that onless ye belave in him an’ thrate him well, he’ll lave an’ come back no more."

    Irish Wonders 1878

  • He made up his mind though, that he’d do fur Saint Kevin if he cud, but mind ye, the blessed saint was so well beknownst to all the counthry, that the divil was afeared to tackle him.

    Irish Wonders 1878

  • "It’s very well beknownst that in thim owld days there were gionts in plinty hereabouts, but they didn’t make the Causeway at all, for that’s a work o’ nacher, axceptin’ the Gray Man’s Path, that I’m goin’ to tell ye av.

    Irish Wonders 1878

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