Since about 1899, Halvor and his wife lived with their son-in-law, Rev. K. A. Kasberg, in Stoughton, Wisconsin, later in Grand Forks, North Dakota, now for several years past at Spring Grove, Houston County, Minnesota.
— from A History of Norwegian Immigration to the United States From the Earliest Beginning down to the Year 1848 by George T. (George Tobias) Flom
Take this key, and keep it safe until myself or some other royal governor shall demand it of you."
— from Twice Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne
One bitter drop always marred the pleasure of that hour; for when she had asked for Mrs. Sterling, and sent her love, she forced herself to say kindly: "And Kitty, is she doing well?"
— from Work: A Story of Experience by Louisa May Alcott
In the opinion of an initiate who belonged for years to the Stella Matutina, the dynamic force employed known as "Kundalini" is simply an electro-magnetic force, of which the sex-force is a part, on which the adepts know how to play, and "the unseen hand behind all the seeming Spiritism of these Orders is a system of very subtle and cunning hypnotism and suggestion."
— from Secret Societies And Subversive Movements by Nesta Helen Webster
Now as for his fortune, it was prosperous in all other respects, if ever any other man could be so, since, from a private man, he obtained the kingdom, and kept it so long, and left it to his own sons; but still in his domestic affairs he was a most unfortunate man.
— from The Wars of the Jews; Or, The History of the Destruction of Jerusalem by Flavius Josephus
The ancient descriptions of its locality vary, but the place now known as Kaiguez is said to denote its site.
— from The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 1 (of 6) by the Elder Pliny
In the matter of being kissed and kissing I suffer no inconvenience whatever.
— from The Works of the Emperor Julian, Vol. 2 by Emperor of Rome Julian
This tradition of the meeting of Keliikuku and Kaneakalau is still sometimes chanted by the Kanakas.
— from Northern California, Oregon, and the Sandwich Islands by Charles Nordhoff
Colonel Kekewich at Kimberley is surrounded by the troops of Du Toit, Kolby, Delarey, and Ferreira.
— from Ten Months in the Field with the Boers by Anonymous
Take this key, and keep it safe until myself, or some other Royal Governor, shall demand it of you.
— from Twice-Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Thus his overtures were politely rejected by Khiva and Kokand in succession.
— from The Heart of Asia A history of Russian Turkestan and the Central Asian Khanates from the earliest times by Ross, E. Denison (Edward Denison), Sir
Connor says of the tobacco fields of India:— "In the Bombay Presidency tobacco is largely produced, and its quality in such districts as Kaira and Khandesh is superior.
— from Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce by E. R. Billings
The town of Sockatoo lies in latitude 13° 4' 52" north, and longitude 6° 12' east, and is situated near the junction of an inconsiderable stream, with the same river which flows past Zirmee, and which taking its rise between Kashna and Kano, is said to fall into the Quarra four days' journey to the west.
— from Travels of Richard and John Lander into the interior of Africa, for the discovery of the course and termination of the Niger From unpublished documents in the possession of the late Capt. John William Barber Fullerton ... with a prefatory analysis of the previous travels of Park, Denham, Clapperton, Adams, Lyon, Ritchie, &c. into the hitherto unexplored countries of Africa by Robert Huish
This will of itself largely justify the making Kalevala synonymous with the present Finland , Pohjola with the present Lapland, Karjala with the present Karjala (Anglice, Karelia ) in South-Eastern Finland, etc.
— from Finnish Legends for English Children by R. Eivind
In front of this, clad gorgeously in flowing robes, stood the archbishop, and before him knelt a knight in splendid armor, but bareheaded, just on the point of rising.
— from With the Black Prince by William O. Stoddard
They did not know that he was Kingeleza, and Kingeleza is still being sought for by the Belgian official.
— from The Crime of the Congo by Arthur Conan Doyle
Even I, Yva, have some knowledge, and knowledge is strength.”
— from When the World Shook Being an Account of the Great Adventure of Bastin, Bickley and Arbuthnot by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard
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