He intended thus to see, while himself unknown, "the gentlewoman who sould have been his spouse, thinking to spy her pulchritud and behaviour unkenned by her.". From Wordnik.com. [Royal Edinburgh Her Saints, Kings, Prophets and Poets] Reference
Then there was singing in the evening, till by some unkenned wile on her part fifteen or sixteen of the better singers got into the habit of dropping in at the manse two nights a week for purposes unknown. From Wordnik.com. [Bog-Myrtle and Peat Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from the Years 1889 to 1895] Reference
Now Osberne heard and understood all, and the men are all ready for him, a thousand and three hundred by tale; so he makes no delay and leads them by ways unkenned so diligently that he breaks forth on them before they be duly ordered, though they be all out in the fields drawing together. From Wordnik.com. [The Sundering Flood] Reference
The stars, unkenned by her, might set and rise. From Wordnik.com. [The Poems of William Watson] Reference
The world-ways unkenned. From Wordnik.com. [The Sundering Flood] Reference
"She lay like some unkenned-of isle. From Wordnik.com. [The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume IV. The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century] Reference
And from lover parted, ’twere strange, unkenned!. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference
Thereat we marvelled, and yet more when we saw that its sail was striped of gold and green and black; next then were we betwixt fear and joy when, as it drew nigher, we saw three women in the said boat, clad in gold, green, and black; and it came so nigh unto us at last, that we could see their faces that they were verily those of our lovelings; and each reached out her arms to us and called on us for help, each by our name: and there we were, oarless, sailless, at the mercy of our unkenned ferry. From Wordnik.com. [The Water of the Wondrous Isles] Reference
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