It lay, as every Negro soon knew and knows, in escape from menial serfdom.
— from Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil by W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois

[1157] This is why we frequently speak of the ceremonies as if they were addressed to living personalities (see, for example, texts by Krichauff and Kemp, in Eylmann, p. 202).
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim

Almost as bad, good mother, As kill a king and marry with his brother, the astonishment of her repetition 'As kill a king!' is evidently genuine; and, if it had not been so, she would never have had the hardihood to exclaim: What have I done, that thou darest wag thy tongue In noise so rude against me?
— from Shakespearean Tragedy: Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth by A. C. (Andrew Cecil) Bradley

The heresy of Amenhotep IV has been called "Disk-worship;" and he, and the next two or three kings, are known in Egyptian history as "the Disk-worshippers."
— from Ancient Egypt by George Rawlinson

The kiss, as known in Europe, has developed on a sensory basis that is mainly tactile, although an olfactory element may sometimes coexist.
— from Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 4 Sexual Selection In Man by Havelock Ellis

Have you not all a prince can give?" "Highness," answered Dicky, "I have kith and kin in England.
— from Donovan Pasha, and Some People of Egypt — Volume 2 by Gilbert Parker

I know a kitchen in Europe where the rarest dishes have been served up in your honor with festive pomp.
— from The Poems of Schiller — Third period by Friedrich Schiller

"You spoke so lightly just now, sir, of dying in a ditch or palace," Cornelius Beresteyn was saying, "but you did tell me that day in Haarlem that you had kith and kindred in England.
— from The Laughing Cavalier: The Story of the Ancestor of the Scarlet Pimpernel by Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness

The experiments were carried out with two pigs nine and a half months old, and each 121.9 kilogrammes (a kilogramme is equal to about 2-1/4 lb.) in weight.
— from Manures and the principles of manuring by Charles Morton Aikman

Ce Tome i. est décrit dans l'ouvrage de M. Waagen, Kunstwerke and Künstler in England und Paris , Berlin, 1837, Tome i. p. 148.
— from Notes and Queries, Number 210, November 5, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various