known
/noʊn/ adjective B2- Identified as a specific type; famous, renowned. · He was a known pickpocket.
- Accepted, familiar, researched. · At the time, Einstein's theory was unknown to most other scientists.
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Come, come,” continued he, patting Edmond’s shoulder kindly, “you did very right, Dantès, to follow Captain Leclere’s instructions, and touch at Elba, although if it were known that you had conveyed a packet to the marshal, and had conversed with the emperor, it might bring you into trouble.”
Elizabeth thought this was going pretty far; and she listened with increasing astonishment as the housekeeper added, “I have never had a cross word from him in my life, and I have known him ever since he was four years old.”
Elizabeth walked on in quest of the only face whose features would be known to her.
Suddenly, he felt an arm thrown around his body, and a well-known voice behind him exclaimed, “Father—dear father!”
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