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knowing a lot about
Working in security means knowing a lot about technology.
— from Little Brother by Cory Doctorow

kids and laugh and
And we got to thinking how she used to come and sit on our doorstep and train with the kids, and laugh, and—and just be glad.
— from Pollyanna by Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman) Porter

know at least as
The stork did, and we know at least as much as he, the stork.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

knots and loops and
And from the carven-work behind him crept Two dragons gilded, sloping down to make Arms for his chair, while all the rest of them Through knots and loops and folds innumerable Fled ever through the woodwork, till they found The new design wherein they lost themselves, Yet with all ease, so tender was the work:
— from Idylls of the King by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron

kugitáhun a like an
kugitáhun a like an octopus.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

knows as little about
She is very lovely, and if she knows as little about life as she does about acting, she will be a delightful experience.
— from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

know as little as
And now, since last Monday, there has suddenly sprung up a barrier between us, and I find that there is something in her life and in her thought of which I know as little as if she were the woman who brushes by me in the street.
— from The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

kept a little altar
No matter; he had kept a little altar for her in his heart, for he had loved her alone!
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

know a little about
I only know a little about sweated workers, because I see something of them.”
— from The Works of John Galsworthy An Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of Galsworthy by John Galsworthy

keeping a little ahead
Then he had been hurried down stairs and along the streets, two men keeping a little ahead and others following behind.
— from Bonnie Prince Charlie : a Tale of Fontenoy and Culloden by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

keep a lamp and
But as I turned away I glanced back from the dark passage where Charliet, the French-Canadian cook, was supposed to keep a lamp and never did, and saw the girl in the living room look after me,—with a look I had never seen in any girl's eyes, if I'd seen a hunted man have it.
— from The La Chance Mine Mystery by Susan Morrow Jones

keep awake long after
His right eye struggled hard to keep awake, long after the left eye had given up the fight, and it was due possibly to this that Jimmieboy was wide enough awake at the time to hear a quaint
— from Bikey the Skicycle and Other Tales of Jimmieboy by John Kendrick Bangs

knees and looked about
He got upon his hands and knees and looked about him.
— from Denis Dent: A Novel by E. W. (Ernest William) Hornung

knowledge and love and
And the worst of all this is, that love and friendship may be the outcome of a certain condition of knowledge; increase the knowledge, and love and friendship beat their wings and go.
— from Dreamthorp A Book of Essays Written in the Country by Alexander Smith

knew and looking again
Just as on that other occasion, when I had set about a similar business, so now I found myself going back to scenes I knew, and looking again at various places, as it were for the last time.
— from Tinman by Tom Gallon

kind a letter addressed
But the same evening, certainly, he was again in his cell; and among the attempts to move him which can be authenticated, there was one of a far different kind; a letter addressed to him by Pole to bring him to a sense of his condition.
— from The Reign of Mary Tudor by James Anthony Froude


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