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and fowlers killd
at Some distance from Point Adms high and mountains on a Pinecal of a which is Snow at this time—near the Point is Low bottom land our hunters and fowlers killd 2 Deer 1 Crane & 2 ducks, my Servt.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

available from Kermit
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— from The Online World by Odd De Presno

and ferrets kept
I may add that as some organisms breed freely under the most unnatural conditions—for instance, rabbits and ferrets kept in hutches—showing that their reproductive organs are not easily affected; so will some animals and plants withstand domestication or cultivation, and vary very slightly—perhaps hardly more than in a state of nature.
— from The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, 6th Edition by Charles Darwin

a faint kind
At eight o'clock the next morning, a faint kind of dawn of day awoke us.
— from A Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne

and fantasy kept
This wedlock was more serious than most affairs of Merry Mount, where jest and delusion, trick and fantasy, kept up a continual carnival.
— from Twice Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne

acronym for Kabatáang
kíim n 1 acronym for Kabatáang Makabáyan.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

and Frank Kidde
His nephew, B.A. Livierato, then assumed charge of the New York coffee business, which in 1913 became the Livierato-Kidde Co., with B.A. Livierato and Frank Kidde.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

Artikel führen keep
eine Weisung erteilen to issue an instruction eine Weisung zum Einzug von Zinsen an instruction to collect interest eine Wohnung mieten to rent a flat eine Wohnung mieten to rent an apartment eine Zahlung anweisen authorize a payment eine Zahlung leisten make a payment eine Zahlung leisten to make a payment einem Begünstigten avisiert advised to a beneficiary einem Dritten oder mehreren Dritten to one or more other parties einem Frachtführer übergeben delivered to a carrier einem Konto gutschreiben credit an account einem Prozess als Nebenkläger beitreten to join an action einen Antrag stellen to make an application for einen Anspruch anerkennen to admit a claim einen Anspruch erheben lodge a claim einen Anspruch erheben raise a claim einen Anspruch erwerben; ein Anrecht to acquire a title einen Anteil am Geschäft verkaufen sell an interest einen Antrag ablehnen dismiss an application einen Antrag ablehnen to dismiss an application einen Antrag ablehnen to reject an application einen Antrag annehmen; genehmigen; bewilligen to allow an application einen Antrag direkt stellen to apply direct einen Antrag einreichen to submit an application einen Antrag genehmigen allow an application einen Antrag genehmigen to allow an application einen Antrag stellen make an application einen Antrag unterstützen to seconf a motion einen Artikel auszeichnen label an article einen Artikel führen keep an artricle einen Artikel schreiben write an article einen Aufkäuferring binden corner the market einen Aufschub bewilligen to grant a delay einen Auftrag für jemanden platzieren place an order for sth.
— from Mr. Honey's Medium Business Dictionary (German-English) by Winfried Honig

a fellow know
“I'd get married, but how can a fellow know whether a girl will make a home for him or give him this?
— from A Poor Wise Man by Mary Roberts Rinehart

agreement for keeping
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— from A Hundred Years Hence: The Expectations of an Optimist by T. Baron Russell

and final knowledge
His four or five years of hasty, crowded study are supposed to give him a complete and final knowledge of the treatment of every sort of disease, and he goes on year after year, often without co-operation, working mechanically in the common incidents of practice, births, cases of measles and whooping cough, and so forth, and blundering more or less in whatever else turns up.
— from An Englishman Looks at the World Being a Series of Unrestrained Remarks upon Contemporary Matters by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

ask for knowledge
For in learning and in science They may forget to pray: God will not ask for knowledge
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 05, April 1867 to September 1867 by Various

a firsthand knowledge
The character of his comments makes it clear that he had a firsthand knowledge of the books that he cites.
— from A History of Bibliographies of Bibliographies by Archer Taylor

a French knight
[q] Godfrey de Preuilly, a French knight, is said by several contemporary writers to have invented tournaments; which must of course be understood in a limited sense.
— from View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages, Vol. 3 by Henry Hallam

Akiba Friedländer known
He traced his ancestry directly back to the Rabbis Eliezer and Akiba Friedländer, known as learned and high-minded men, whose virtues and piety, attainments and generosity, had brought honors to them, not only from the Jews, but also from those of other faiths.
— from Simon Eichelkatz; The Patriarch. Two Stories of Jewish Life by Ulrich Frank


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