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Keeping dinner engagements
Keeping dinner engagements, 187-188 .
— from Etiquette by Emily Post

kai deinos eipein
Tôn goun kath' hêmas tis sophistôn ta t' alla kai peri tous eristikous logous hikanôs synkekrotêmenos kai deinos eipein, eiper tis allos, aphikomenos emoi poth' hyper toutôn eis logous, tosouton apedei tou dysôpeisthai pros tinos tôn eirêmenôn, hôste kai thaumazein ephasken emou ta saphôs phainomena logois lêrôdesin anatrepein epicheirountos.
— from Galen: On the Natural Faculties by Galen

King Darius etc
It is also mentioned in Like Will to Like , Hickescorner , King Darius , etc.
— from The Devil is an Ass by Ben Jonson

killed during engagements
Commanding generals are liable to be killed during engagements; and the fact that when he was shot Johnston was leading a brigade to induce it to make a charge which had been repeatedly ordered, is evidence that there was neither the universal demoralization on our side nor the unbounded confidence on theirs which has been claimed.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

Kosten der Erfüllung
corporation Körperschaft des öffentlichen Rechts public corporation Körperschaftssteuer corporation tax Körperverletzung bodily harm Korrelation correlation Korrelationskoeffizient coefficient of correlation Korrespondent correspondence clerk Korrespondenzbank correspondent bank korrespondierende Frage interlocking question korrigieren; berichtigen adjust kostbar precious Kosten charges Kosten cost Kosten costs Kosten expenses Kosten des Prüfens costs of checking operations Kosten der Anlieferung cost of delivery Kosten der Beschädigung costs of damage Kosten der Erfüllung costs of the performance Kosten der Errichtung von Anlagen cost of construction Kosten der Gründung cost of foundation Kosten der Konsulatspapiere the cost of consular documents Kosten der Löschung unloading costs Kosten der Ursprungszeugnisse costs of certificates of origin Kosten der Verbringung an Land wharfage charges Kosten des Löschens expenses of landing the goods Kosten des Messestands stand costs Kosten des Untergangs; Kosten des Verlustes costs of loss Kosten die dabei anfallen costs thereby incurred Kosten einschließlich Ausladen und Zoll landed cost Kosten für Abladen expenses of unloading Kosten für Entladen expenses of discharing Kosten für weitere Beförderung expenses of any movement Kosten niedrig halten keep down costs Kosten sparen save costs Kosten und Fracht cost and freight Kosten/Nutzen-Analyse cost benefit analysis Kosten; die entstehen weil costs incurred because Kosten; Versicherung; Fracht cost; insurance and freight Kostenabweichung cost variance Kostenanalyse cost analysis Kostenänderung change in cost Kostenart type of costs Kostenaufgliederung break of costs Kostenaufgliederung breakdown of costs Kostenaufgliederung classification of expenses Kostenaufschlüsselung expense allocation
— from Mr. Honey's Medium Business Dictionary (German-English) by Winfried Honig

Kushal Dave EN
[Luc Dall'Armellina FR / Kushal Dave EN FR / Cynthia Delisle FR EN* / Emilie Devriendt FR / Bruno Didier FR EN ES DE / Catherine Domain FR EN* ES* / Helen Dry EN FR / Bill Dunlap EN FR]
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

K D Erskine
Much historical, geographical, and ethnological information has been collected in the new edition of the Imperial Gazetteer of India , the , the Bombay Gazetteer edited by Sir J. M. Campbell, and, more particularly, in the revised Gazetteer of Rajputana , including that of Mewār and the Western States Residency and Bīkaner Agency by Lieutenant-Colonel K. D. Erskine, and that of Ajmer by Mr. C. C. Watson.
— from Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 1 of 3 or the Central and Western Rajput States of India by James Tod

kings dukes earls
And then there came the harbingers from King Arthur for to harbour him, and his kings, dukes, earls, barons, and knights.
— from Le Morte d'Arthur: Volume 1 by Malory, Thomas, Sir

kindred days Estate
The lines of that inconsequential philosopher, that irresponsible moralist, that dreamy Puritan, Emerson, “Give all to love; Obey thy heart; Friends, kindred, days, Estate, good fame, Plans, credit and the Muse- Nothing refuse” would be warmly praised in Germany.
— from Germany and the Germans from an American Point of View by Price Collier

knife dissects each
The native who obtains a few dozen seeks shelter under the first mustard-tree, and with dull-edged knife, dissects each bivalve with a thoroughness permitting nothing to escape his eye.
— from East of Suez Ceylon, India, China and Japan by Frederic Courtland Penfield

keen dark eyes
They walked in single file, Du Lhut leading, with the swift silent tread of some wild creature, his body bent forward, his gun ready in the bend of his arm, and his keen dark eyes shooting little glances to right and left, observing everything from the tiniest mark upon the ground or tree trunk to the motion of every beast and bird of the brushwood.
— from The Refugees A Tale of Two Continents by Arthur Conan Doyle

king driver egging
When we turned to at one o'clock the gang on the wharf started to howl defiance at Nigger and his men, and the cruel ball began again with the mate, as king driver, egging along the performance.
— from Under Sail by Felix Riesenberg

Knight Death etc
Knight, Death, etc., 76 .
— from Dürer Artist-Biographies by M. F. (Moses Foster) Sweetser

Kantian direction enough
If not regular transcendental idealists, they at least obey the Kantian direction enough to bar out ideal entities from interfering causally in the course of phenomenal events.
— from The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature by William James

king did ending
After saying this, he described to him what happened from the very beginning, and what Aśokavatí did, and what the king did, ending up with his fight.
— from The Kathá Sarit Ságara; or, Ocean of the Streams of Story by active 11th century Somadeva Bhatta

Keith drove every
Keith drove, every faculty concentrated.
— from The Gray Dawn by Stewart Edward White


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