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another cried be kind
"Heaven to this wretch (another cried) be kind!
— from The Odyssey by Homer

and could be keenly
Lily had no real intimacy with nature, but she had a passion for the appropriate and could be keenly sensitive to a scene which was the fitting background of her own sensations.
— from The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton

and can be known
My Saheb, that Goluk Chunder Bose is a man of a good character, is known to all persons in the zillah, and can be known even by enquiring of the Amlas of the Court.
— from Nil Darpan; or, The Indigo Planting Mirror, A Drama. Translated from the Bengali by a Native. by Dinabandhu Mitra

as containing both kinds
Yajurveda , while the others, under the general name of Black ( kṛishṇa ) Yajurveda , are contrasted with it, as containing both kinds of matter mixed up in the Saṃhitā .
— from A History of Sanskrit Literature by Arthur Anthony Macdonell

a cool but kind
In the meanwhile, Hawkeye, who looked on this burst of youthful feeling with a cool but kind regard made the following reply: “Life is an obligation which friends often owe each other in the wilderness.
— from The Last of the Mohicans; A narrative of 1757 by James Fenimore Cooper

absolutely cannot be known
But everything in regard to which the word "knowledge" has any sense at all, belongs to the realm of reckoning, weighing, and measuring, to quantity whereas, conversely, all our valuations (that is to say, our sensations) belong precisely to the realm of qualities, i.e. to those truths which belong to us alone and to our point of view, and which absolutely cannot be "known."
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book III and IV by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

and Child Berlin Kaiser
Mary Magdalen and Dorothy Siena: Pinacoteca, 77 156 Simone Sanese The Knighting of S. Martin Assisi: Lower Church, Chapel of S. Martin 168 Lippo Memmi Madonna and Child Berlin: Kaiser Friedrich Museum, 1081A 172 Taddeo Gaddi The Presentation in the Temple Florence: Accademia, 107 182 Andrea di Cione
— from Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects, Vol. 01 (of 10) Cimabue to Agnolo Gaddi by Giorgio Vasari

a confoundedly bad kind
Generally, what kind of man?" "Why, then I'll tell you, sir," returns the trooper, stopping short and folding his arms on his square chest so angrily that his face fires and flushes all over; "he is a confoundedly bad kind of man.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

and consoled by Khara
Thus addressed, and consoled by Khara, that irrepressible one, wiping her eyes, spoke unto Khara, "Having had my nose and ears cut off, I had come hither, covered with blood; and thou hadst consoled me.
— from The Rāmāyana, Volume Two. Āranya, Kishkindhā, and Sundara Kāndam by Valmiki

Augusta Charlotte being known
The Princess Royal’s eldest daughter was born on July 24, and was christened Victoria Augusta Charlotte, being known as Princess Charlotte till her marriage in 1878 to the Hereditary Prince of Saxe-Meiningen.
— from The Empress Frederick: a memoir by Anonymous

as can be kept
We will keep such of the provisions as can be kept—' 'Keep nothing.
— from Atlantic Narratives: Modern Short Stories by H. G. (Harrison Griswold) Dwight

animal can be kept
This indicates that a large number of organisms from the dry coat of the animal can be kept out of milk if such simple precautions as these are carried out."
— from Bacteria Especially as they are related to the economy of nature, to industrial processes, and to the public health by Newman, George, Sir

and can be kept
In fact, in cold weather an open tent with a fire in front is preferable to all others, and can be kept as warm as an oven.
— from The Game Fish, of the Northern States and British Provinces With an account of the salmon and sea-trout fishing of Canada and New Brunswick, together with simple directions for tying artificial flies, etc., etc. by Robert Barnwell Roosevelt

a common blood kinship
Though descent is the normal, the typical cause of kinship and a common blood, kinship may also be acquired.
— from The Origin and Development of the Moral Ideas by Edward Westermarck

a constable but knows
They are all known; their backs and shoulders are scored with the nine-tailed cat; not a headborough or a constable but knows them every one.
— from London by Walter Besant


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