He appears to be a gentleman of-a-a-many adventures and unknown antecedents.

The girl liked him, she liked him in spite of his unknown antecedents, his preposterous picture, his conspicuous companion.

Still, there the religious conception actually is, and it seems to follow that we do not wholly understand the savage mind, or its unknown antecedents.

'No man of suspicious appearance or of unknown antecedents here.'