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know approximately that this and that have
We know approximately that this and that have come to light
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

knew at the time and that he
The narration might be concluded with our difference of opinion as to the Shantung Settlement, but in view of subsequent information which the President received I am convinced that he felt that my objections to his decisions in regard to the terms of the peace with Germany extended further than he knew at the time, and that he resented the fact that my mind did not go along with his as to these decisions.
— from The Peace Negotiations: A Personal Narrative by Robert Lansing

know about these things and taxed his
But one day the father got to know about these things, and taxed his wife on her treatment of the boy.
— from Edmund Dulac's Fairy-Book: Fairy Tales of the Allied Nations by Edmund Dulac

kits awaited the troops and they had
The barges and boats containing the stores and kits awaited the troops, and they had only to bivouac along the river-bank and shelter themselves as quickly as possible from the fierce heat of the sun.
— from The River War: An Account of the Reconquest of the Sudan by Winston Churchill

kindly at their tents and treat him
Though they receive a visitor kindly at their tents and treat him very hospitably during his stay yet it is very probable they will despatch some young men to waylay and rob him in going towards the post: indeed all the traders assured us it was more necessary to be vigilantly on our guard on the occasion of a visit to them than at any other time.
— from The Journey to the Polar Sea by John Franklin

killed at the top and their heads
A fowl is killed for the well at the bottom of the pit, and a goat, two ducks, and two pigeons are killed at the top, and their heads thrown to the rīsōmār .
— from The Mikirs by Edward Stack

kindled a torch there at the Holy
According to one, a certain Florentine named Pazzino went to Jerusalem in the twelfth century, kindled a torch there at the Holy Sepulchre on Easter Eve, and resolved to bring this same sacred fire with him back to Florence.
— from Strange Survivals: Some Chapters in the History of Man by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould

king amid the train And to him
LXXXIX Whilst Raymond wreaked thus his just disdain On the proud-heads of captains, lords and peers, He spies great Sion's king amid the train, And to him leaps, and high his sword he rears, And on his forehead strikes, and strikes again, Till helm and head he breaks, he cleaves, he tears; Down fell the king, the guiltless land he bit, That now keeps him, because he kept not it.
— from Jerusalem Delivered by Torquato Tasso

knitting and thinking that at this hour
[Pg 22] Fräulein, who had been droning on in the dusk over her knitting, and thinking that at this hour in Düsseldorf her sister and mother were eating belegte Brödchen , looked up in surprise.
— from The Devourers by Annie Vivanti


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