Very little is now known about the Druids and their faith.
— from The Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce

The other letter is not known, and all three soon fell into disuse.]
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius

These are probably the little islands now known as Ratoneau, Pomègue, and If.
— from The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 1 (of 6) by the Elder Pliny

The country north of the line is now known as British Columbia.
— from The Story of Our Flag, Colonial and National With Historical Sketch of the Quakeress Betsy Ross by Addie Guthrie Weaver

"He has told me a lot I never knew about dear daddy, and it makes me love him more than ever.
— from The Lever: A Novel by William Dana Orcutt

The large vaulted hall into which it leads, intended originally for the storage of grain and the like, is now known as the Sala di Dante, and witnesses the brilliant gatherings of Florentines and foreigners to listen to the readings of the Divina Commedia given under the auspices of the Società Dantesca Italiana .
— from The Story of Florence by Edmund G. Gardner

Occasionally Madame was visible sharing the joys of her lord and master’s leisure-hours, but not often; for when you visit a Chinaman he seldom presents you to his wife, although the latter is not kept at all secluded or under lock and key.
— from From Pekin to Calais by Land by Harry De Windt

[175] “After some dickering, the French company, took $40,000,000 for what they owned, and, in 1904, the Panama Republic, a newly created nation, sold the United States for $10,000,000 a strip of land ten miles wide and fifty miles long, which strip of land is now known as the Canal Zone.
— from The Boy Scouts at the Panama Canal by John Henry Goldfrap

Polly laughed, “I never knew any one to do that before,” she said.
— from The Turner Twins by Ralph Henry Barbour

This locality is now known as the Black Hills, in the midst of which is the famous mining district of Deadwood.
— from First Across the Continent The Story of the Exploring Expedition of Lewis and Clark in 1804-5-6 by Noah Brooks

That lady is now known as Dr. Elizabeth Garrett-Anderson, an eminent physician, who has done not her sex alone but this entire community a great benefit, by showing that a woman’s professional success is not inconsistent with her being a devoted and happy wife and mother.
— from Travels in South Kensington with Notes on Decorative Art and Architecture in England by Moncure Daniel Conway

'Was teaching what he liked?' 'Oh yes—only—' Catherine paused and then added hurriedly, as though drawn on in spite of herself by the grave sympathy of his look, 'I never knew anybody so good who thought himself of so little account.
— from Robert Elsmere by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.

During the first half of my life I never knew a child that was able to rise above that temptation and keep from telling that lie.
— from The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg, and Other Stories by Mark Twain