While his stories appeared in the pages of prominent pulp magazines such as Weird Tales ( eliciting letters of outrage as often as letters of praise from regular readers of the magazines ), not many people knew his name.

By the middle of the 19th century, the Leyden jar had become common enough for writers to assume their readers knew of and understood its basic operation.

Claiming that Meres was obsessed with numerology, they propose that the numbers should be symmetrical, and that careful readers are meant to infer that Meres knew two of the English poets ( viz., Oxford and Shakespeare ) to actually be one and the same.

He wrote that the Christian Scientists understood positive thinking better than any group he knew, and encouraged his readers to subscribe to Unity Church ’ s magazine, Daily Word.

Some interpreters have concluded that Mark's intended readers already knew the traditions of Jesus ' appearances, and that Mark brings the story to a close here to highlight the resurrection and leave anticipation of the parousia ( Second Coming ).

This resulted in some chronological confusion for new readers of the Tintin series, which is why the text hints that Tintin already knew the pair, and was surprised at their unfriendly behavior ; however, on the original chronological sequence, this was indeed the first time they ever met.

Hanssen also posted sexually explicit stories to the Internet crafted to allow readers who knew the Hanssens to identify them, also without his wife's knowledge.

Throughout the seventies and eighties, acquaintance with Beti or his work could spell trouble for a citizen of Cameroon ; on numerous occasions, Beti used his connections in France to rescue one of his young readers, many of whom knew him from his periodical and his polemical essays.

Two months later, still in 1974, Julian Symons reviewed the Gollancz reprint, revealing, after some research, the real name of the author as a certain Ernst Wilhelm Julius Bornemann, a man about whom he said he knew nothing except his name (" More information from readers would be welcome ").

The best thing to do was to presume that your readers knew how Frank Woolley batted and use no adjectives at all ..... there was all summer in a stroke by Woolley, and he batted as it is sometimes shown in dreams.

I knew that three or four of them were almost always present in the hall, but what they were doing, and exactly where, I could not tell.

From the time the chocks were pulled until the plane was out of sight, he knew Donovan would keep his back to the strip.

and, when you took a walk you never knew what adventure or pair of sparkling eyes were waiting around the next corner.

If it were not that I knew who it was I could have mistaken it for my Aunt so well did her clothes fit him.

They were west of the Sabine, but only God knew where.

Tilghman knew that some ranchers were hand-in-glove with the Doolin gang.

Jack knew of course that the tale to be unfolded would involve a girl and probably be dirty, because girls were Charles' only apparent interest.

`` It was then I knew that they were making war against Man, the individual within!!

He had a purring voice and poker player's immobility of features which somehow conveyed the feeling that he knew where all the bodies were buried.

He spoke no German but he could sing it and the words of the song were the only ones he knew in a foreign language.

There were several men of ninety or more whom I knew first or last, all of whom were still productive and most of whom knew one another as if they had naturally come together at the apex of their lives.

While most of his beliefs were still unsettled, he knew that he did not believe in killing.

and then I was adding my own voice to the crescendo of sound, hurling more vile language than I ever thought I knew, sobbing and shouting, and aware that if I had passed water before, it was not enough, for my pants were soaking wet.

He imagined they were the kind whose tax returns were never examined ( if they were, they were never penalized ), whose children had no unhappy romances, whose names never knew scandal.

She held Jonathan's letter, his words burning like a brand, and knew suddenly that the bonds between them were severed.

He knew that many were using it for their own ends.

For a moment she thought of answering with the truth but she knew there were men who shied away from virginity, who demanded some degree of education in body as well as mind.

What had once been a widespread family -- at one time, she knew, there were enough Packards to populate an entire county -- had now narrowed down to the two boys, Abel and Mark.

She already knew this unwholesome, chilling atmosphere that was somehow grotesquely alive.

It is already difficult to recall how little we knew before the Trial of what had been done to the Jews of Europe.

Angie knew too much entirely already.

As Player stepped on the first tee he knew that Palmer had birdied the first two holes and already was 2 under par for the day.

Starting the second nine, Palmer was already four strokes behind Player and knew it.

I felt myself tremble, thinking of the diamond light of that beauty I had held a few moments before, and I wanted to run down there and halt, if I could, that frenetic pirouette, catch the boy in the moment of his savagery, and save a glimmer, a remnant, of that which I remembered, but I knew it was already too late.

He was extremely skeptical of Peter Bartholomew's discovery in Antioch of the Holy Lance, especially because he knew such a relic already existed in Constantinople ; however, he was willing to let the Crusader army believe it was real if it raised their morale.

Aristotle knew of this tradition when he began his Metaphysics, and had already drawn his own conclusion, which he presented under the guise of asking what being is :" And indeed the question which was raised of old is raised now and always, and is always the subject of doubt, viz., what being is, is just the question, what is substance?

Not wanting to expose what he already knew, and wanting to avoid panicking the American public, the President did not reveal that he was already aware of the missile build-up.

The form, as opposed to the earlier letters of Paul, suggests that the author knew Paul's Epistle to the Ephesians or even that the Pauline epistles had already been collected and were circulating when the text was written.

Loner spy personalities may have been a stereotype of convenience for authors who already knew how to write loner private investigator characters that sold well from the 1920s to the present.

He was already acquainted with Margaret Murray's theory of the Witch-cult, and " I then knew that that which I had thought burnt out hundreds of years ago still survived.

The Japanese Ambassador to the United States Nomura knew this, but managed to give each government the idea that the other had already agreed to the draft as the basis for negotiation.

The Ancient Greeks already knew that pieces of amber could attract lightweight particles after being rubbed.

" Beria knew her relatives had already been executed months before.

However, this form of notation only served as a memory aid for a singer who already knew the melody.

Other interpretations include for example that of Antonio Gramsci, who argued that Machiavelli's audience for this work was not even the ruling class but the common people because the rulers already knew these methods through their education.

It is implied in the episode and later stated in the Star Trek TNG Companion that the Borg already knew about Earth and were already en route, Q's actions actually giving humanity an early warning.

Gagnan's boss and owner of the Air Liquide company, Henri Melchior, decided to introduce Gagnan to Jacques-Yves Cousteau, his son-in-law, because he already knew that Cousteau was looking for an efficient and automatic demand regulator.

In that story, Scrooge returns to the McDuck Castle for another treasure and learns from Matilda that his family already knew about the treasure but their father Fergus decided not to tell Scrooge about it.

When the league was first organized in 1999, it was originally supposed to stand for " Xtreme Football League "; however, there was already a league in formation at the same time with that name, and so promoters wanted to make sure that everyone knew that the " X " did not actually stand for anything ( though McMahon would comment that " if the NFL stood for the ' No Fun League ', the XFL will stand for the ' extra fun league '").

Shawn quickly learned that he already knew all of the material being taught to him in classes and was even placed in higher classes he was not qualified to be in.