“You’re very kind, and no doubt it’s a false position, but you make me miserable.
— from Howards End by E. M. (Edward Morgan) Forster

A mechanical force shifts the kaleidoscope; a new direction is given to growth or a new gist to signification.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

Mu nay sangputánan sa ímung kabúang, That’s where your mischief will end you. kina- = ka- , 2. kina-(→) a not done in seriousness.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

He had not been killed, then, no thanks to the Mexicans, and he had not killed anybody now, deeming it imprudent to take any scalps under the circumstances.
— from The Red Mustang by William O. Stoddard

Breakfast over, the guests discreetly removed themselves; and the whole family joined in resetting the table for the luncheon, which was to be at two, Katy and Ned departing in the boat at four.
— from Clover by Susan Coolidge

THI.S. cLEr k a N d ! IM.
— from The History of Signboards, from the Earliest times to the Present Day by John Camden Hotten

"The portrait of Tennyson is at South Kensington, and no doubt I can easily manage that Mr. Frank Short should have access to it.
— from Philip Gilbert Hamerton An Autobiography, 1834-1858, and a Memoir by His Wife, 1858-1894 by Eugénie Hamerton

One who would tolerate no waste in the kitchen and no disorder in the parlor."
— from Iola Leroy; Or, Shadows Uplifted by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper

If any body approached the place, his cackling was incessant; he would run at him with the fury of a turkey-cock; he would jump up at his knees, and not desist in his aggressions till the intruder had retired.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, No. 359, September 1845 by Various

Military expenditures - dollar figure: NA Military expenditures - percent of GDP: NA Transnational Issues Saint Kitts and Nevis Disputes - international: joins other Caribbean states to counter Venezuela's claim that Aves Island sustains human habitation, a criterion under UNCLOS, which permits Venezuela to extend its EEZ/continental shelf over a large portion of the eastern Caribbean Sea Illicit drugs: transshipment point for South American drugs destined for the US and Europe; some money-laundering activity
— from The 2007 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

285 Lenclos, Anne, known as Ninon de, ii. 100 Lenglet-Dufresney, Abbé Nicolas, vi. 78 Lenoir-Laroche, Jean Jacques Comte, ii. 195 Lenormant, Charles, iv. 180, 299; v. 85, 200, 261 Lenormant, Amélie Cyvoct, Dame, i. 5 ; iv.
— from The Memoirs of François René Vicomte de Chateaubriand sometime Ambassador to England, Volume 1 (of 6) Mémoires d'outre-tombe, volume 1 by Chateaubriand, François-René, vicomte de