"hakala" hidden in books

hands and knees and leaving a

M. de Villacourt picked up his pistol and proceeded to do his four remaining paces as far as the walking-stick, dragging himself along on his hands and knees and leaving a track of blood on the snow behind him.
— from Renée Mauperin by Jules de Goncourt

heels Algernon known about Lobourne as

Shortly after his departure, arrived Austin Wentworth; close on his heels, Algernon, known about Lobourne as the Captain, popular wherever he was known.
— from The Ordeal of Richard Feverel — Complete by George Meredith

her absolute King and Lord and

If indeed another plan should succeed, if—and his eyes flashed eagerly—if fate set him on the seat of Rameses, then the alliance with Bent-Anat would lose its terrors; there would he be her absolute King and Lord and Master, and no one could require him to account for what he might be to her, or vouchsafe to her.
— from Uarda : a Romance of Ancient Egypt — Complete by Georg Ebers

hands and knees and like a

Laboriously he lowered himself to his hands and knees, and, like a flabby pink bear, with all sense of direction gone, he started through the steam.
— from The Sin of Monsieur Pettipon, and other humorous tales by Richard Edward Connell

hands and knees and looked and

Greta got down on her hands and knees and looked and looked, but not a kitten did she find.
— from Little Greta of Denmark by Bernadine Bailey

head and kicked and laughed and

The silence in that sheltered nook was painful, and the low moan of the restless sea even seemed to be hushed, as the child threw back its little head, and kicked and laughed and crowed with delight.
— from The Vicar's People by George Manville Fenn

he always kept a large and

When Napoleon, the world's greatest military captain, went into battle, he always kept a large and powerful force in reserve, to give confidence to those on the firing-line, and to save the day in case of a reverse, and possibly to turn defeat into victory, and at the worst to cover a retreat, and save the army from rout.
— from Defenseless America by Hudson Maxim

her age knows a lot about

A kid her age knows a lot about business.
— from At the Little Brown House by Ruth Brown MacArthur

him and killed a lieutenant and

He at once fell in with the British pickets, who poured in a volley upon him and killed a lieutenant and several privates.
— from The Pictorial Field-Book of the Revolution, Vol. 1 (of 2) or, Illustrations, by Pen And Pencil, of the History, Biography, Scenery, Relics, and Traditions of the War for Independence by Benson John Lossing

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