"khaos" hidden in books

knew her at once she

The nun knew her at once; she raised her eyebrows in surprise, and her pale, freshly washed face, and even, it seemed, the white headcloth that she wore under her wimple, beamed with pleasure.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

kill him at once Sir

No, don’t kill him at once, Sir Rowland: starve him gradually, inch by inch.
— from The Way of the World by William Congreve

know him as of such

While, then, God as "the Unconditioned cannot be classed," and so as unconditioned we do not know him "as of such or such kind," after the manner of the Understanding, yet we may, do, "see him as he is," do know that he is, and is unconditioned, through the insight of the Reason, the eye of the spiritual person, and what it is to be unconditioned.
— from Know the Truth: A Critique on the Hamiltonian Theory of Limitation Including Some Strictures Upon the Theories of Rev. Henry L. Mansel and Mr. Herbert Spencer by Jesse Henry Jones

know her at once she

Jerry seemed to know her at once; she put back her veil and said, “Barker!
— from Black Beauty by Anna Sewell

killed herself and our spy

And she shall hear from me that this woman who killed herself and our spy of the Abbey were one.
— from The Brightener by A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson

kissed her all over she

And suddenly the sun caught hold of her, raised her up to him, kissed her all over; she gave forth a sigh of happiness, as though her very spirit had travelled through her lips up to her lover's heart.
— from Fraternity by John Galsworthy

Kill him at once say

Kill him at once, say I. Foreign devils are dangerous to keep.
— from Brown of Moukden: A Story of the Russo-Japanese War by Herbert Strang

kill her at once said

XVII “Better kill her at once,” said Mlle.
— from Other People's Money by Emile Gaboriau

Keiley himself an old soldier

Bishop Keiley, himself an old soldier of General Longstreet, and Rev. Fathers Gunn, of Atlanta, and Schadewell, of Albany, officiated.
— from Lee and Longstreet at High Tide: Gettysburg in the Light of the Official Records by Helen Dortch Longstreet

Khân he at once surrenders

When he saw they were resolved that he should be delivered into the hands of Cossim Ali Khân, he at once surrenders the whole to him.
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 09 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

Kula his attack of sickness

The incidents of the journey to the coast by horses, his work in the mountains at a shingle mill for means to proceed, and the embarkment and journey on the Vaquero for the islands, are sufficient for a long chapter in themselves; while his labors in the Maui conference, under President F. A. Hammond, his efforts to learn the language in the district of Kula, his attack of sickness, the most severe of his life, caused by the Panama fever, and his other labors and varied, trying experiences while there, would fill a volume.
— from Gospel Doctrine: Selections from the Sermons and Writings of Joseph F. Smith by Joseph F. (Joseph Fielding) Smith

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