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and keep enlinked England
Dismiss Your flatterers—let no harpings, no gay songs Prevent your calm dictation of good laws To guard, to fortify, and keep enlinked England and Freedom!
— from Poems by Victor Hugo

aye kings eke emperors
That here, above All dukes, aye, kings, eke emperors—in the eyes Of Germany to their fierce strife a prey, He rears upon his tower, in stern defiance, A signal of appeal to the crushed people, A banner vast, of Sorrow's sable hue, Snapped by the tempest in its whirlwind wrath, So that kings quiver as the jades at whips?
— from Poems by Victor Hugo

as kissing etc etc
When a man carries on the congress by exciting himself by means of the sixty-four ways, such as kissing, etc., etc., or when a man and a woman come together, though in reality they are both attached to different persons, their congress is then called "congress of artificial love."
— from The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana Translated From the Sanscrit in Seven Parts With Preface, Introduction and Concluding Remarks by Vatsyayana

Amir Khan etc etc
of the Nawab Amir Khan, etc., etc., etc.!
— from Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 1 of 3 or the Central and Western Rajput States of India by James Tod

as King Eirik Eymundson
There were disturbances also up in Gautland as long as King Eirik Eymundson lived; but he died when King Harald Harfager had been ten years king of all Norway.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

and knock em every
‘Why don’t you go down and knock ‘em every one downstairs?
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

a Kula expedition enumerating
In this long spell, the magician follows the course of a Kula expedition, enumerating its most [ 202 ] conspicuous landmarks.
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski

and keep eyes ears
And if thou wouldst not hang in a pig's skin, be wise and wary, and keep eyes, ears, and mouth closed.'
— from Driftwood Spars The Stories of a Man, a Boy, a Woman, and Certain Other People Who Strangely Met Upon the Sea of Life by Percival Christopher Wren

are K E Emory
Principal authorities are K. E. Emory and M. K. Pukui.
— from Hawaii National Park: A Guide for the Haleakala Section, Island of Maui, Hawaii by George Cornelius Ruhle

A kiss ensues even
A kiss ensues, even though it should be obtained after a struggle; then the boy marches away round and round followed by the girl, while all again sing the song.
— from Children's Rhymes, Children's Games, Children's Songs, Children's Stories A Book for Bairns and Big Folk by Robert Ford

a kingdom ever existed
If such a kingdom ever existed it was long before the mediæval era, and a spired church belongs to the Gothic period.
— from The Cornish Riviera by Sidney Heath

and knew everything even
Why, of course she saw everything and knew everything, even what was going on in my soul at that moment.
— from In the World by Maksim Gorky


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