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Car ne fut-ce pas d'ici que jaillirent ces influences qui changèrent en riches habitations de nations puissantes, ces vastes déserts inconnus?

From Memories of Canada and Scotland — Speeches and Verses by Campbell, John Douglas Sutherland

N’est-il pas plus logique d’en finir de suite avec des artifices poétiques inconnus à nos littératures modernes, plutôt que de vouloir s’escrimer en vain à les reproduire en français?

From The Translations of Beowulf A Critical Bibliography by Tinker, Chauncey Brewster

Their renown, however, has been, eclipsed by the superior splendors of their great master, St. Dominic; —"Fils inconnus d'un si glorieux père."

From The History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic — Volume 2 by Prescott, William Hickling

Un naturaliste vous parle des formations spéciales des animaux excessivement inconnus, dont vous n'avez jamais soupçonné l'existence.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 06, April, 1858 by Various

I—I have felt proud to think that we were once—that we were once—not des inconnus.

From The Big Drum A Comedy in Four Acts by Pinero, Arthur Wing, Sir