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know it brought back entire
Instead, therefore, of building up all at once systems risked upon the universality of things, it undertook to examine what man knows, what he can know; it brought back entire philosophy to the study of our faculties, as physics had just been brought back to the study of the properties of bodies,—which was giving to philosophy, if not its end, at least its true beginning.
— from Lectures on the true, the beautiful and the good by Victor Cousin

kinsman is beheaded by Edward
[See Note II.] but whatever the true construction of the story, we find that Warwick and the king are still on such friendly terms, that the earl marches in person against a rebellion on the borders, obtains a signal victory, and that the rebel leader (the earl’s own kinsman) is beheaded by Edward at York.
— from The Last of the Barons — Complete by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

knows it be bad enough
They’ll be sure to make the thirst a deal worse than it is, though the Lord knows it be bad enough a’ready.
— from The Ocean Waifs: A Story of Adventure on Land and Sea by Mayne Reid

Kladrau in Bohemia began early
Ludwig Ebert , born on April 13, 1834, at Schloss Kladrau, in Bohemia, began early his musical training in the home of his father, who was royal treasurer of Windischgratz, and was sent in 1846 to Prague in order to study at the Conservatoire.
— from The Violoncello and Its History by Wilhelm Joseph von Wasielewski

killed I believe by eating
More men are killed, I believe, by eating half-cooked victuals, than by hard work.
— from Digging for Gold: Adventures in California by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

kinsman is beheaded by Edward
[See Note II.] but whatever the true construction of the story, we find that Warwick and the king are still on such friendly terms, that the earl marches in person against a rebellion on the borders, obtains a signal victory, and that the rebel leader (the earl's own kinsman) is beheaded by Edward at York.
— from The Last of the Barons — Volume 01 by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

Killed in Battle BING EDWARD
BEMUS, HENRY, ” ” BENNETT, EDWARD, ” ” BETHKA, CHARLES, ” ” 222.png BEYER, MARTIN, Killed in Battle. BING, EDWARD J., Died in Service.
— from The Old Sixth Regiment, Its War Record, 1861-5 by Charles K. Cadwell

know I began but Eve
“Why, I didn’t know——” I began, but Eve whispered, “Hush!”
— from Dig Here! by Gladys Allen

KING IN BABYLON Burton E
A QUAKER WOOING Mrs. Fred Reynolds A KING IN BABYLON Burton E. Stevenson PERSUASIVE PEGGY Maravene Thompson WHEN MICHAEL CAME TO TOWN Madame Albanesi {23} THE SUNLIT HILLS Madame Albanesi HEARTS AND SWEETHEARTS By Madame Albanesi POPPIES IN THE CORN Madame Albanesi RICHARD RAYNAL, SOLITARY Robert Hugh Benson A MIRROR OF SHALLOT
— from Robin Linnet by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson

known I believe beyond England
Though little known, I believe, beyond England, it has in England exercised a great fascination over exceedingly dissimilar minds, 55 and it does undoubtedly evade some of the objections to the other forms of the inductive theory.
— from History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 1 of 2) by William Edward Hartpole Lecky


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