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  • 'Yes; your fair Incognita is neither more nor less,' said Mrs. Arlbery,

    Camilla: or, A Picture of Youth 1796

  • Terra Incognita was the concept last year, for which it designed a scene with an ocean made from 300 yards of blue silk that took over a whole block and required some 200 volunteers to support it in the parade.

    Halloween, Haitian Style Arden Dale 2010

  • This performance is entitled Incognita, or Love and Duty Reconciled; it has been asserted that this is a real history, and though the scene is laid in Italy, the adventures happened in England; it is not our business to enter into the secret history of this entertaining piece, or to attempt giving the reader a key to what the writer took so much pains to conceal.

    The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland Cibber, Theophilus, 1703-1758 1753

  • His first performance was a novel, called Incognita, or Love and Duty reconciled: it is praised by the biographers, who quote some part of the preface, that is indeed, for such a time of life, uncommonly judicious.

    The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes Volume the Eighth: The Lives of the Poets, Volume II Samuel Johnson 1746

  • She desired him to live by all means; and if he must have a Name to play with, to call her Incognita, till he were better informed.

    Incognita; or, Love and Duty Reconcil'd William Congreve 1699

  • Aurelian and Hippolito take each other's names for certain purposes, and their beloveds, "Incognita," Juliana and Leonora, are perplexed accordingly: while family feuds, letter assignations at a convent where the name of the convent unluckily happens to be torn off, and other stock ingredients of the kind are freely used.

    The English Novel George Saintsbury 1889

  • The fair 'Incognita' turned her head quickly at the sudden question.

    Sylvie and Bruno Lewis Carroll 1865

  • Not forgetting the Bermuda Triangle effect, Polish blog Tierra Incognita [pl], wonders what has happened, affirming that despite the catastrophe of the disappearance, he stills loves flying:

    Global Voices in English » Air Bus AF 447: Sorrow, lack of information and sensationalism 2009

  • The Terra Incognita sf podcast features previously published Australian science fiction. [via Articulate]

    SF Tidbits for 2/7/09 2009

  • O'Shea: In a recent blog post you wrote a Last week, with the large draft manuscript of Terra Incognita #2 — The Map of All Things — looming in front of me, I went away for three days to stay alone in a lovely and peaceful cabin in Estes Park, at the edge of Rocky Mountain National Park ...

    Talking Comics with Tim: Kevin J. Anderson | Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources – Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment 2009

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