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and kneeling down crumbled

Then moving quietly about he busied himself with the duties of a host, rinsed a saucer, filled it with the rest of the milk from the bottle on the window-sill, and kneeling down, crumbled a roll into the hollow of his hand.
— from The King in Yellow by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

and kiss dead Cæsar

And they would go and kiss dead Cæsar's wounds, And dip their napkins in his sacred blood; Yea, beg a hair of him for memory, And, dying, mention it within their wills, Bequeathing it as a rich legacy Unto their issue. 4 Ple.
— from The Art of Public Speaking by J. Berg (Joseph Berg) Esenwein

and King Don Clavijo

Don Quixote and Sancho got up rather shaken, and, looking about them, were filled with amazement at finding themselves in the same garden from which they had started, and seeing such a number of people stretched on the ground; and their astonishment was increased when at one side of the garden they perceived a tall lance planted in the ground, and hanging from it by two cords of green silk a smooth white parchment on which there was the following inscription in large gold letters: "The illustrious knight Don Quixote of La Mancha has, by merely attempting it, finished and concluded the adventure of the Countess Trifaldi, otherwise called the Distressed Duenna; Malambruno is now satisfied on every point, the chins of the duennas are now smooth and clean, and King Don Clavijo and Queen Antonomasia in their original form; and when the squirely flagellation shall have been completed, the white dove shall find herself delivered from the pestiferous gerfalcons that persecute her, and in the arms of her beloved mat
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

all kinds do cause

A principal fruit of friendship is the ease and discharge of the fulness and swellings of the heart, 170 which passions of all kinds do cause and induce.
— from Bacon's Essays, and Wisdom of the Ancients by Francis Bacon

act Kapitunena Duhu ceremonially

The log is left as it is; until The magical act ( Kapitunena Duhu ) ceremonially inaugurating the work over the canoe.
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski

ain kill dat carcajo

"No, one marten don't mak' mooch differ', but we ain' goin' to git no more marten on dis trap line s'pose we ain' kill dat carcajo !
— from Connie Morgan in the Fur Country by James B. (James Beardsley) Hendryx

and knocks down chair

Jumps down and knocks down chair, and falls down with books. )
— from Nursery Comedies: Twelve Tiny Plays for Children by Bell, Florence Eveleen Eleanore Olliffe, Lady

and Knights Daughters c

CHAPTER II DRESS OF THE NEW ENGLAND MOTHERS "Nowe my deare hearte let me parlye a little with thee about trifles, for when I am present with thee, my speeche is preiudiced by thy presence which drawes my mind from itselfe; I suppose now, upon thy unkles cominge there wilbe advisinge &; counsellinge of all hands; and amongst many I know there wilbe some, that wilbe provokinge thee, in these indifferent things, as matter of apparell, fashions and other circumstances; I hould it a rule of Christian wisdome in all things to follow the soberest examples; I confesse that there be some ornaments which for Virgins and Knights Daughters &;c may be comly and tollerrable
— from Two Centuries of Costume in America, Volume 1 (1620-1820) by Alice Morse Earle

Andrew Knight Downton Castle

Raised by Thomas Andrew Knight, Downton Castle, Eng., in 1830.
— from The Pears of New York by U. P. Hedrick

AT KINGSTOWN DUBLIN Co

THE CLUBS AT KINGSTOWN, DUBLIN Co. Kingstown Harbour, so admirably adapted for sailing, has long been a favourite spot with yachtsmen.
— from Yachting, Vol. 2 by Dufferin and Ava, Frederick Temple Blackwood, Marquis of

and knowingly defy classical

Was Emerson a little rusty in his classical lore, or did he boldly and knowingly defy classical verities when he says the divinity came to him "in his fatal rounds"?
— from Poet-Lore: A Quarterly Magazine of Letters. April, May, June, 1900 by Various

Al Kuwayt Data code

@Kuwait:Government Country name: conventional long form: State of Kuwait conventional short form: Kuwait local long form: Dawlat al Kuwayt local short form: Al Kuwayt Data code: KU Government type: nominal constitutional monarchy Capital: Kuwait Administrative divisions: 5 governorates (muhafazat, singular - muhafazah); Al Ahmadi, Al Farwaniyah, Al 'Asimah, Al Jahra', Hawalli Independence: 19 June 1961 (from UK)
— from The 2000 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

and kindly disposed Christians

And as the severity of their winters drive them into houses for three months, during that season, there is offered a fair opportunity to both ministers and kindly disposed Christians to do them good.
— from The Gipsies' Advocate Or, Observations on the Origin, Character, Manners, and Habits of the English Gipsies by James Crabb

as kites do chickens

The saints know it isn't for my happiness to put her out of my old arms; but I can't last forever,—my old back grows weaker every year; and Antonio has strong arms to defend her from all these roystering fellows who fear neither God nor man, and swoop up young maids as kites do chickens.
— from Agnes of Sorrento by Harriet Beecher Stowe

and kneeling down cautiously

The footman here respectfully interposed, and kneeling down, cautiously extracted from folds of brown paper a straw bottle-cover full of broken glass and dripping with whisky.
— from Further Experiences of an Irish R.M. by E. Oe. (Edith Oenone) Somerville

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