Hollywood discovered him before the book critics did ("3:10 to Yuma," "Hombre," and "Valdez Is Coming" were all adapted for the screen), but in short order Leonard's cut-to-the-chase dialogue, intelligently spare narrative, tight-lipped heroes, and offbeat villains had reviewers tripping over their own superlatives.
The baby, who the police said was healthy and appeared to be between 1 and 5 days old, had been wrapped in a blanket and placed inside a black handbag before workers discovered him at 10 27 a.m., the police said.
As John McPhee, Ernie Pyle and John Muir discovered before him, the Yukon has always been rich with characters.
As J.F.K. and Bill Clinton discovered before him, Irish love is all-encompassing, a mother's milk for needy politicians.
As many have discovered before him, a posh voice gives you licence to express outrageously tasteless and illiberal sentiments, but Carr is also an excellent joke writer and has made a brave return to the traditional two-part gag.
As other peers had discovered before him, Lord Saatchi's bill might have cleared their Lordships' House, but that did not give it any priority at all for debate in the Commons.
Although I knew him before, I discovered the real John in 1969 when we travelled together to South America as the two representative British artists in the São Paulo Biennale.
My surprise is that it hasn't been discovered before now.
As BBC Future has discovered before, proponents of space elevators believe not.
Scientists have discovered never-before-seen plant species around Son Doong's waterfalls.
Youkilis has already discovered, like Johnny Damon before him, that leaving Boston — even for a bigger city — can be good for a player's mental health.
