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knowledge but really
Therefore, here also syllogisms are not [pg 088] the essential and only source of knowledge, but really only a makeshift.
— from The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer

Koren began rolling
“You see what the Japanese monkeys are like,” Von Koren began, rolling himself up in his cloak and shutting his eyes.
— from The Duel and Other Stories by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Kreditantrag borrowing request
Kostenaufstellung cost report Kostenaufstellung specification of costs Kostenberechnung calculation of costs Kostenberechnung computation of costs Kostenberechnung für einen Auftrag job costing Kostenbestandteil element of costs kostenbewusst cost-conscious Kostendämmung cost reduction Kostendenken thinking in terms of cost Kosteneffizienz cost efficiency Kosteneinsparung saving Kostenentwicklung development of costs Kostenermittlung costing Kostenersparnis durch Massenproduktion economies of scale Kostenerstattung compensation for outlay Kostenfaktor expense factor kostengünstigste Losgröße minimum-cost batch size Kostenkomponente cost component Kosten-Leistung Analyse cost-performance analysis kostenlose Anzeige free insertion kostenlose Lebensversicherung free life insurance kostenlose Probe free trial Kosten-Nutzen-Rechnung cost-benefit calculation kostenpflichtig liable for costs Kostenrechnung bill of charges Kostenrechnung cost accounting Kostenrechnung eines Produkts product costing Kostenrechnung für einen Auftrag job costing Kostenreduzierung reduction of expenses Kostensicherung cost assurance kostensparend cost saving Kostenstelle burden centre Kostenstelle cost centre Kostentabelle cost schedule Kostentabelle scale of charges Kostentabelle table of costs Kostenüberwachung control of costs Kostenvergleich comparison of costs Kostenvoranschlag calculation Kostenvoranschlag machen give an estimate for Kostenvorkalkulation estimating Kostenwirksamkeit cost effectiveness Kostenzuordnung cost allocating kostspielig costly Krach crash kraft des Gesetzes by act of law kraft Geburt by birth kraft Gesetzes by operation of law Kraft; zwingen force Krangebühr cranage Krankengeld sick benefit Krankengeld sick pay Krankengeld sickness allowance Krankenversicherung health insurance Krankheitsurlaub sick leave kreativ creative Kredit credit Kredit an Privatpersonen private credit Kredit aufnehmen raise a credit Kredit begrenzt auf credit limited to Kredit eröffnen open a credit Kredit mit kurzer Laufzeit short-term credit Kreditabteilung credit department Kreditabteilung loan department Kreditabteilung loan division Kreditanstalt credit institution Kreditantrag borrowing request Kreditantragsteller credit applicant Kreditaufnahme borrowing Kreditaufnahme raising of credit Kreditauskunft credit information Kreditauskunftei commercial credit agency Kreditausweitung credit expansion Kreditbank credit bank Kreditbedarf demand for advances Kreditbetrug obtain credit by false pretences Kreditbremse credit squeeze Kreditbrief an eine bestimmte Bank direct letter of credit Kreditbrief; Akkreditiv letter of credit Kreditbrief; Reisekreditbrief circular letter of credit Kreditbürge guarantor of a credit Kreditbürgschaft credit guarantee Kreditbüro credit agency Krediteinschränkungen credir restrictions Krediterleichterung credit accomodation
— from Mr. Honey's Medium Business Dictionary (German-English) by Winfried Honig

killed but retained
It appears that the dreamer condensed, fused into one, his dead father and the tooth that was killed but retained.
— from A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud

Kotah Bundi Rampura
It embraced all the extreme points of Central India: Agra, Narwar, Datia, Jhansi, Bhopal, Sarangpur, Ujjain, and on return from this, the first meridian of the Hindus, by Kotah, Bundi, Rampura (Tonk), Bayana, to Agra.
— from Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 1 of 3 or the Central and Western Rajput States of India by James Tod

kindest best respects
My kindest, best respects, I sen' it, To cousin Kate, an' sister Janet: Tell them, frae me, wi' chiels be cautious, For, faith, they'll aiblins fin' them fashious; To grant a heart is fairly civil, But to grant a maidenhead's the devil.
— from Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Robert Burns

key but reaching
The doors of most of the Yorkshire churches we found were kept unlocked; but this was an exception, so down those steps we had to come, to go in search of a key; but reaching the bottom of the flight, up we had to go again to try and find the rectory.
— from Nooks and Corners of Old England by Allan Fea

keys being rather
supremely well governed, Saint Peter’s keys being rather rusty now; the driver had so worried about the danger of robbers in travelling after dark, and had so infected the brave Courier, and the two had been so constantly stopping and getting up and down to look after a portmanteau which was tied on behind, that I should have felt almost obliged to any one who would have had the goodness to take it away.
— from Pictures from Italy by Charles Dickens

know but really
It is wrong, I know, but really I should hardly care to be professed if Father Ambrose could not be by.
— from Sister Teresa by George Moore

kelp beds rode
Storm or calm, to the kelp beds rode the Indian hunters in their boats of oiled skin light as paper.
— from Canada: the Empire of the North Being the Romantic Story of the New Dominion's Growth from Colony to Kingdom by Agnes C. Laut

knight but rather
“This is a great marvel,” said King Arthur; “I will myself try to draw forth this sword, not thinking in my heart that I am the best knight, but rather to begin and give example that all may try after me.”
— from The Legends of King Arthur and His Knights by Knowles, James, Sir

Kingsbridge but returns
General Heath moves down to Kingsbridge, but returns to Peekskill without effecting anything.
— from The Life of George Washington: A Linked Index to the Project Gutenberg Editions by John Marshall

king by right
Because he may innocently acknowledge the king de facto (the king in deed ,) without assuming him to be king de jure (king by right .)
— from The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 4 of 4 by American Anti-Slavery Society


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