"akbar" hidden in books

and kneeling behind a rock

I laid down my gun, and kneeling behind a rock lighted a pipe.
— from The King in Yellow by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

and Kumbháṇḍas being alarmed rose

And as they were gradually advancing, the Yakshas, Guhyakas, and Kumbháṇḍas, being alarmed, rose up to bar their way, armed with numerous weapons.
— from The Kathá Sarit Ságara; or, Ocean of the Streams of Story by active 11th century Somadeva Bhatta

and kill because a ruler

He painted war as war has ever been, and as war will ever be—a horrible and ghastly scene, where men, drunk with blind frenzy which rulers say is patriotic pride, and made mad by drums and fifes and smoke and shot and shell and flowing blood, seek to maim and wound and kill, because a ruler gives the word.
— from A Persian Pearl, and Other Essays by Clarence Darrow

away Kentucky Blackie and Red

At that same moment, two hundred miles away, Kentucky, Blackie, and Red were out over the sea in their planes.
— from Jet Plane Mystery by Roy J. (Roy Judson) Snell

as kings but as robbers

Cocceius remarked very strikingly: "The other kings of Israel are not considered as kings, but as robbers."
— from Christology of the Old Testament: And a Commentary on the Messianic Predictions, Vol. 1 by Ernst Wilhelm Hengstenberg

any kind being absolutely repulsive

So hot, indeed, was it that with one accord we decided against cooking any food that day, the idea of hot viands of any kind being absolutely repulsive to us all, and we accordingly dined all together upon the poop, under the shelter of the awning, upon such cold food as the steward’s pantry afforded.
— from Overdue: The Story of a Missing Ship by Harry Collingwood

and Kitty began a rapid

Talking rapidly to mask embarrassment, they joined us round the fire, Reid dropped a slouch hat and an overcoat that seemed all pockets bulging with papers, while Miss Bryant and Kitty began a rapid fire of talk about "copy," "cuts," "the black," "the colour" and other mysteries.
— from The Bacillus of Beauty: A Romance of To-day by Harriet Stark

a knife blade and rub

Scrape the mucous surface firmly with the back of a knife blade, and rub up the scrapings in a mortar with fine sand.
— from A Practical Physiology: A Text-Book for Higher Schools by Albert F. (Albert Franklin) Blaisdell

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