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King came last
At the office all the morning, where Mr. Wren first tells us of the order from the King, came last night to the Duke of York, for signifying his pleasure to the Sollicitor-General for drawing up a Commission for suspending of my Lord Anglesey, and putting in Sir Thomas.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Kreditgrenze credit limit
Krediterleichterung relaxation of credit squeeze Krediterleichterungspolitik easy credit policy Krediteröffnung opening of credit Kreditfähigkeit borrowing power Kreditgeber letzter Instanz lender of last resort Kreditgeber; Darlehnsgeber lender Kreditgebühren charges for credit Kreditgenossenschaft cooperative credit association Kreditgenossenschaft credit cooperative Kreditgeschäfte credit transactions Kreditgewährung credit accommodation Kreditgewährung grant of credit Kreditgrenze credit limit Kreditgrenze credit line Kreditkarte credit card
— from Mr. Honey's Medium Business Dictionary (German-English) by Winfried Honig

Kept Cap L
a Bare & Dere, this is a butifull place the Prarie rich & extinsive, Took Some Looner Observations which Kept Cap L. & my Self up untill half past 11 oClock.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

Knox cannot live
How many pented bredds , pretending to be real, are fitter to swim than to be worshipped!—This Knox cannot live but by fact: he clings to reality as the shipwrecked sailor to the cliff.
— from On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History by Thomas Carlyle

King Charles let
And in this Templum Domini were some-time canons regulars, and they had an abbot to whom they were obedient; and in this temple was Charlemagne when that the angel brought him the prepuce of our Lord Jesus Christ of his circumcision; and after, King Charles let bring it to Paris into his chapel, and after that he let bring it to Peyteres, and after that to Chartres.
— from The Travels of Sir John Mandeville by Mandeville, John, Sir

kindness caressing letters
He would have liked Victor Hugo and his friend to undertake the sole responsibility of the arrangements, but they prudently declined to do so, though they lavished kindness, caressing letters, advice, and treats, upon the little exile.
— from Juliette Drouet's Love-Letters to Victor Hugo Edited with a Biography of Juliette Drouet by Louis Guimbaud

Kiriwina communal labour
Finally, in Kiriwina, communal labour, and the services [ 114 ] of experts have to be paid for, and there must be someone who has the means and is prepared to do it.
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski

Kent Captain Lawton
The middle of December the Pyrates took another Galley in her Voyage home from Jamaica , call’d the Kent , Captain Lawton , and shifted her Provisions aboard their own Ship, and let her go, which obliged her to Sail back to Jamaica for a Supply for her Voyage.
— from A General History of the Pyrates: from their first rise and settlement in the island of Providence, to the present time by Daniel Defoe

kneel Crouching like
So long as sovereigns live, the subjects kneel, Crouching like spaniels at their royal heel;
— from Poems by Victor Hugo

Krakowski Comte Leopold
, 365 , et seq. — and Germany, 365 - 368 Johannism, 68 - 71 , 157 Johnson (alias Leucht or Becker), 155 , 158 Karmath (Hamdan), 38 Karmathites, 38 - 40 Kay, John de, 365 Kilmarnock, Lord, 153 Kilwinning, Lodge of, 112 Knigge, Baron von, alias Philo, 210 - 211 , 234 , 266 Knight Kadosch, 147 , 159 , 164 , 280 Knights of the East, 149 Knights of St. John of Jerusalem, 59 , 116 Knights Templar (see Templars) Knorr, Baron von Rosenroth, 86 Kollowrath-Krakowski, Comte Leopold de, 236 Kölmer, 199 Koran, 22 Krishnamurti, 301 , 305 Kropotkine, Peter, Prince, 268 Kuentz, R., 318 "Kundalini," 325 Labour Party, the, 360 , 362 , 368 , 389 Lacorne, 149 , 163 Lafayette, 162 , 236 Lamballe, Princesse de, 295 Lambert, Alexandre, 250 , 251 Lanze, the Illuminatus, 235 Larménie, Jacques de (see Charter of Larmenius) Lazare, Bernard, 122 , 177 Leadbeater, Mr., 301 , 308 "Leon, the Jew," 175 Le Secret des Francs-Maçons , 131 Les Francis-Maçons écrasés , 131 , 169 Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim, 191 , 229 Levellers, the, 180 Libres Penseurs , Lodge of the, 296 Lippe-Bückeburg, Graf von, 152 Little, Robert Wentworth, 310 Lima, Magalhaes, 283 Lodge "Theodore de Bon Conseil," 205 , 228 Loge des Neuf Lœurs, 236 , et seq.
— from Secret Societies And Subversive Movements by Nesta Helen Webster

Kernel Cob Let
"That's so," said Kernel Cob, "Let's turn 'round and sail for the South Pole again."
— from Kernel Cob And Little Miss Sweetclover by George Mitchell

known cone loan
Prone, bone, drone, throne, alone, stone, tone, lone, zone, atone, enthrone, dethrone, postpone, grown, flown, disown, thrown, sown, own, loan, shown, overthrown, groan, blown, moan, known, cone, loan, etc.
— from Practical Guide to English Versification With a Compendious Dictionary of Rhymes, an Examination of Classical Measures, and Comments Upon Burlesque and Comic Verse, Vers de Société, and Song-writing by Tom Hood

Kansas City law
(In The University of Kansas City law review, Dec. 1939)
— from U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1967 July - December by Library of Congress. Copyright Office

know Captain like
It set me wondering if perhaps his language wasn't like the primitive speech of some earth people—you know, Captain, like the Negritoes, for instance, who haven't any generic words.
— from A Martian Odyssey by Stanley G. (Stanley Grauman) Weinbaum

Korea claim Liancourt
Military expenditures: 0.8% of GDP (2006) country comparison to the world: 150 Transnational Issues ::Japan Disputes - international: the sovereignty dispute over the islands of Etorofu, Kunashiri, and Shikotan, and the Habomai group, known in Japan as the "Northern Territories" and in Russia as the "Southern Kuril Islands," occupied by the Soviet Union in 1945, now administered by Russia and claimed by Japan, remains the primary sticking point to signing a peace treaty formally ending World War II hostilities; Japan and South Korea claim Liancourt Rocks (Take-shima/Dokdo) occupied by South Korea since 1954; China and Taiwan dispute both Japan's claims to the uninhabited islands of the Senkaku-shoto (Diaoyu Tai) and Japan's unilaterally declared exclusive economic zone in the East China Sea, the site of intensive hydrocarbon prospecting page last updated on November 11, 2009
— from The 2009 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

Kee chairman Liberal
Queen ELIZABETH II of the UK (since 6 February 1952) head of government: Governor and President of the Executive Council Christopher Francis PATTEN (since 9 July 1992); Chief Secretary Anson CHAN Fang On-Sang (since 29 November 1993) cabinet: Executive Council appointed by the governor elections: none; the queen is a hereditary monarch; governor appointed by the queen Legislative branch: unicameral Legislative Council (60 seats; 30 indirectly elected by functional constituencies, 20 elected by popular vote, and 10 elected by election committee; members serve four-year terms); note - the Legislative Council will be replaced by a provisional legislature on 1 July 1997 elections: indirect and direct elections last held 17 September 1995; note - elections for the first post-reversion Legislative Council are scheduled to be held in 1998 election results: percent of vote by party - NA; seats by party - Democratic Party 21, Liberal Party 10, Democratic Alliance for the Betterment of Hong Kong 6, other parties and independents 23; note - subsequent to the election, there has been a change in the distribution of seats; the new distribution is as follows - Democratic Party 19, Liberal Party 10, Democratic Alliance for the Betterment of Hong Kong 6, other parties and independents 25 Judicial branch: Supreme Court Political parties and leaders: Democratic Party, Martin LEE, chairman; Liberal Party, Allen LEE, chairman; Democratic Alliance for the Betterment of Hong Kong, TSANG Yuk-shing, chairman; Hong Kong Democratic Foundation, Dr. Patrick SHIU Kin-ying, chairman Political pressure groups and leaders: Association for Democracy and People's Livelihood (ADPL), Frederick FUNG Kin Kee, chairman; Liberal Democratic Federation, HU Fa-kuang, chairman; Federation of Trade Unions (pro-China), LEE Chark-tim, president; Hong Kong and Kowloon Trade Union Council (pro-Taiwan); Confederation of Trade Unions (pro-democracy), LEE Cheuk-yan, chairman; Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce; Chinese General Chamber of Commerce (pro-China); Federation of Hong Kong Industries; Chinese Manufacturers' Association of Hong Kong; Hong Kong Professional Teachers' Union, CHEUNG Man-kwong, president; Hong Kong Alliance in Support of the Patriotic Democratic Movement in China, Szeto WAH, chairman International organization participation: APEC, AsDB, BIS (pending member), CCC, ESCAP (associate), ICFTU, IMO (associate), Interpol (subbureau), IOC, ISO (correspondent), WCL, WMO, WTrO Diplomatic representation in the US: none (dependent territory of the UK)
— from The 1997 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

Keeko could look
Keeko could look no longer, and, in the agony of the moment, she seized hold of the upstanding roots and clung to them in a ridiculously impotent frenzy of hope that the weight of her own light body might help him.
— from The Heart of Unaga by Ridgwell Cullum

Kellogg Clara Louise
Chase, William M., xix Chicago Tribune , 141 Childs, George W., 18, 106 Cincinnati Times-Star , 90 Claflin, H. B., 57 Coghlan, Rose, 53, 54 Colver, Frederic L., 55, 56, 70 Concord, 46-52 Coney Island, 10 Cosmopolitan Magazine , 69 Crawford, Marion, 130 Curtis, Cyrus H. K., 103-107, 120-123, 149 Curtis, Mrs. Cyrus H. K., 113, 149, 181 Curtis, Mary Louise, 14, 149, 161, 163 Curtis Publishing Company, 120 Dana, Charles A., 130 Davenport, Fanny, 99, 100 Davis, Jefferson, 22 De Koven, Reginald, 160 Dodgson, Charles L., see Carroll, Lewis Doubleday, Frank M., 80, 81, 97 Doyle, Conan, 130 Early, General Jubal, 17 Edison, Thomas A., 15 Elizabeth, Queen of the Belgians, 173 Elkius, George W., 139 Elman, Mischa, 164 Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 30, 46-51 Empress of Asia , 180 Evarts, William M., 26 Farrar, Canon, 57 Field, Cyrus W., 186 Fifth Avenue Hotel, 18 Fourth of July, 140-142 Freer, Charles L., 139 Frick, Henry C., 139 Fulton Market, 74 Gardner, Mrs. John L., 139 Garfield, James A., 16, 18 Garland, Hamlin, 130 Garrison, William Lloyd, 52 Gerard, James W., 173 Gibbons, Cardinal, 57 Gibson, Charles Dana, 138 Godey's Lady's Book , 110 Gould, Jay, 59-67 Grant, Ulysses S., 17-22, 26, 57 Great War, 169-180 Greenaway, Kate, 128-129 Harland, Marion, 57 Harmon, Dudley, 171 Harper and Bros., 12 Harper's Magazine , 12 Harper's Weekly , 12 Harper's Young People , 12 Harris, Joel Chandler, 130 Harrison, Mrs. Burton, 130 Harte, Bret, 129 Hay, Ian, 172 Hayes, Rutherford B., 18, 26-30, 76 Hegeman, Evelyn Lyon, 56 Hitchcock, Ripley, 17 Hodges, Dean, 169 Hofman, Josef, 160-164 Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 30-36 Holt, Henry, and Company, 68, 78 Hoover, Herbert, 172, 186 Hope, Anthony, 130 Howells, William Dean, 57, 119, 122, 168 Jerome, Jerome K., 130 Jewett, Sarah Orne, 130 Johnson, Eldridge R., 146 Johnson, John G., 139 Keller, Helen, 169 Kellogg, Clara Louise, 56 King, Horatio, 67 Kipling, Rudyard, 119, 130, 169 Knapp, Joseph P., 24 Ladies' Home Journal , 103-107, 113-123, 134, 160, 168-173, 181-185 Lane, Franklin K., 184 Lape, Esther Everett, 184 Lathrop, George P., 90 Lee, Robert E., 17 Life , 141 Lincoln, Mrs. Abraham, 22 Literary Leaves , 90, 104 Longfellow, Henry W., 17, 30, 37-42 Low, A. A., 28 Low, Seth, 57 Low, Will H., 138 Lynch, Albert, 138 McAdoo, William, 173 Mansfield, Richard, 85 Marchesi, Madame, 160 Mascagni, 160 Merion, 142-146, 149 Merion Civic Association, 143-146 Moffat, William D., 97 Moffat, Yard & Co., 97 Moody, Dwight L., 130 Morgan, J. Pierpont, 139 Moszkowski, 160 Mott, Lucretia, 52 Netherlands, 1, 3, 39, 194 New York Star , 90, 101 New York Sun , 171 New York Tribune , 17 Nightingale, Florence, 127 North, Ernest Dressel, 97 Northcliffe, Viscount, 172 Outlook, The , 144 Paderewski, 160 Peterson's Magazine , 110 Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart, 130 Philadelphia Orchestra, 162-167 Philadelphia Public Ledger , 17 Philadelphia Times , 90, 103 Phillips, Wendell, 42, 43 Philomathean Review , 56 Philomathean Society, 55 Plymouth Church, 55, 70 Plymouth Pulpit , 56 Porter, Gene Stratton, 169 Presbyterian Review , 81 Pulitzer Prize, v Pyle, Howard, 138 Queen, The , 1 Raymond, Rossiter W., 57 Riis, Jacob, v Roosevelt, Franklin D., 171 Roosevelt, Theodore, 147-159 Safford, Ray, 97 Sangster, Margaret, 57 Schlicht, Paul J., 69 Scribner, Charles, 78 Scribner's Sons, Charles, 78-86, 106, 213 Scribner's Magazine , 80, 81, 97 Sheridan, Philip H., 26, 57 Sherman, William T., 18, 20, 21, 30, 57 Smedley, W. T., 138 Smith, F. Hopkinson, 169 Sousa, John Philip, 160 South Brooklyn Advocate , 10 Stevenson, Robert Louis, 82, 83 Stockton, Frank R., 84, 85 Stokowski, Leopold, 163 Strauss, Edouard, 160 Strauss, Richard, 160 Sullivan, Sir Arthur, 160 Taft, Charles P., 139 Taft, William H., 171 Talmage, T. DeWitt, 57 Taylor, W. L., 138 Tennyson, Alfred, Lord, 17 Thursby, Emma C., 56 Tosti, 160 Twain, Mark, 98, 99, 129 Vanderbilt, William H.,15 Van Dyke, Henry, 169 Van Rensselaer, Alexander, 166 Victor Talking Machine Co., 145 Walker, E. D., 69 Washington, George, 40 Webster, Jean, 169 Western Union Telegraph Co., 13, 14, 59-67 Whittier, John Greenleaf, 17 Widener, Joseph E., 139 Wiggin, Kate Douglas, 130, 169 Wilcox, Ella Wheeler, 87, 88 Wiles, Irving R., 138 Wilkins, Mary E., 130 Wilson, Woodrow, 170 Young Men's Christian Association, 26
— from A Dutch Boy Fifty Years After by Edward William Bok


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