Of Baptists, the lad ascertained there had been so many kinds and parts of kinds since the settlement of Kentucky, that apparently any large-sized family anywhere could reasonably have constituted itself a church, if the parents and children had only been fortunate enough to agree.
— from The Reign of Law; a tale of the Kentucky hemp fields by James Lane Allen
The one bitter hatred of his life had been against the man who had taken his sister in marriage and in so doing had killed all possibility of Kingsnorth succeeding in his political and social aspirations.
— from Peg O' My Heart by J. Hartley Manners
We may as well add here that the Kit-Kat Club derived its name from Christopher [186] Kat, a pastrycook of King Street, Westminster, in whose house the thirty noblemen and gentlemen who formed themselves into a Club for the purpose of promoting the Protestant Succession in the year 1703 held their first meetings.
— from Names: and Their Meaning; A Book for the Curious by Leopold Wagner
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