But a thorough acquaintance with the history and moral systems of some of the oriental nations, and the practical lives of piety and self-denial exemplified in their leading men long anterior to the birth of Christ, and long before the name of Christianity was anywhere known, must convince any unprejudiced mind that such a claim is without foundation.
— from The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors; Or, Christianity Before Christ by Kersey Graves

The Pawang who told me this was a Kapar man (’Che ʿAkob).
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat

Kariyala , magical portent, of wayugo 320 ; 422 Kasabwaybwayreta, Kultur-hero of the Kula, 322 – 326 Katudababile , necklace, exchanged in the Kula, 358 Katuyausi , fornicating expeditions, in the Trobriands, 55 Ka’ubana’i , safety magic, 345 – 349 ; absent on expeditions to Kitava, 478 Kayga’u , magic of fog, 245 – 266 ; myth about origin of, 262 – 264 Kaytalugi and Kokopawa, mythical countries, 223 , 224 [ 523 ] Kaytaria , magic of rescue, 261 , 262 Kewo’u , small canoe, 112 Kinship, in the Trobriands, 7 1 , 72 kinship and presents, 177 – 186 , 191 – 193 Kitava, Kula in, Ch. XX; privileged position in the ring, 488 Kiriwina, Kula expeditions from K. to Kitava, Ch. XX Korotomna , secondary gift, 355 Kudayuri myth of the flying canoe, 311 – 321 Kudu , clinching gift in the Kula, 98 , 356 , 357 Kukumali , greenstone used for stone implements, 481 , 482 Kula, general description of, Ch. III; short definition of, 81 – 84 ; its economic nature, 84 – 86 ; its main rules and aspects, 91 – 95 ; K. as exchange of valuables, 95 – 99 ; its secondary rules and aspects, 99 – 102 ; mythology of, Ch.
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski

I hoped Donna Ignazia would repent and come and keep me company, but I was disappointed.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

, your niece is delightful; she gave me yesterday evening an excellent supper and kept me company till three o’clock this morning.”
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

Perfectly; yes, absolutely—unless somebody fools me by putting my brand on some other kind of cigar; for no doubt I am like the rest, and know my cigar by the brand instead of by the flavor.
— from What Is Man? and Other Essays by Mark Twain

It would satisfy me and keep me content.
— from Juliette Drouet's Love-Letters to Victor Hugo Edited with a Biography of Juliette Drouet by Louis Guimbaud

[5389] I was a king, my crown my witness is, But by my filthiness am come to this.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Without seeming to have noticed anything, he said, in a confidential way: “Not that I have any dislike to the Fairy of the Desert, but I really cannot endure the way in which she protects the Yellow Dwarf and keeps me chained here like a criminal.
— from The Blue Fairy Book by Andrew Lang

Before he could approach, know, make choice of, and tame them, it was necessary that he should be civilized himself, to know how to instruct and command; and the empire over animals, like every other empire, was not founded till after society was instituted.
— from Buffon's Natural History. Volume 05 (of 10) Containing a Theory of the Earth, a General History of Man, of the Brute Creation, and of Vegetables, Minerals, &c. &c by Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc, comte de

Come and kiss me, Charley, and never say anything of the kind again."
— from By Right of Purchase by Harold Bindloss

It was a chilly night of cold northeasterly rain, and I made a fire for the first time in the Franklin stove in my room, and begged my two housemates to come in and keep me company.
— from The Country of the Pointed Firs by Sarah Orne Jewett

Margaret Hamilton, like the happy-hearted child she was, sang through the summer days and knitted more closely around her the hearts of her companions.
— from Many Kingdoms by Elizabeth Garver Jordan

commandment—"For I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the sins of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generation of them that hate Me, and showing mercy unto thousands (of generations) of them that love Me and keep My commandments."
— from The Expositor's Bible: The First Book of Kings by F. W. (Frederic William) Farrar

At Gilford we dined; and, I shewed them the hospitall there of Bishop Abbot's, and his tomb in the church, which, and the rest of the tombs there, are kept mighty clean and neat, with curtains before them.
— from Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 67: August 1668 by Samuel Pepys

Diplomatic representation in the US: chief of mission: Charge d'Affaires ad interim Tambo A. Kabila MUKENDI chancery: 1800 New Hampshire Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20009 telephone:
— from The 1998 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

"Sometimes, since I've been here in Colorado, especially here in the mountains, I've fancied that he was near me again, watching and guiding and keeping me company.
— from Buffalo Roost A Story of a Young Men's Christian Association Boys' Department by Frank H. (Frank Howbert) Cheley

Is it not good to be a king, my cousin, and to sit quite still, and to see your bitterest enemy hacked and slain—and all the while to sit quite still, quite unruffled, as a king should always be?
— from Chivalry by James Branch Cabell