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Kindermann is much more expressive
2.] Note 908 ( return ) [ The original photograph by Herr Kindermann is much more expressive than this copy, as it shows the frown on the brow more plainly.
— from The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals by Charles Darwin

kind I made many excellent
The Saints of this conference, though poor, were very kind; I made many excellent acquaintances, traveled a great deal on foot, and baptized a few; among them was one Joseph Smith; he had been convinced for many years, but put off baptism until he was so worked upon that he could delay no longer.
— from Biography and Family Record of Lorenzo Snow One of the Twelve Apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints by Eliza R. (Eliza Roxey) Snow

killed is made more embarrassing
[78] When Kumagaya comes home, his position, between the woman who thinks he has killed her son and the woman whose son he has really killed, is made more embarrassing by the fact that Kajiwara, an enemy who suspects the truth, is listening at the door.
— from Japanese Plays and Playfellows by Osman Edwards

knights it may mean even
It is true that among secular knights it may mean even more than this, but it ought not to mean more among knights of an Order like yours, pledged to devote their lives to a lofty and holy aim.
— from A Knight of the White Cross: A Tale of the Siege of Rhodes by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

knew I must move every
I did not feel savage, but I knew I must move every bit of me as quick as I could, and defend myself and stab.
— from A Sheaf by John Galsworthy

kept in mind more especially
Men, women, and children alike of this perverted nation were bidden to rejoice over the sinking of the vessel—the fact cannot be too often stated or too fully kept in mind, more especially now that the fabric whence that doctrine of unguided force has emanated is crumbling under the blows of the Allied armies.
— from Kultur in Cartoons With accompanying notes by well-known English writers by Louis Raemaekers

knife I murdered Mr Edward
But I want you to consider the tremendous gap between the fact of the knife known to belong to me, and the accusation that with this knife I murdered Mr. Edward Wilson.
— from The Day of Judgment by Joseph Hocking

key in my mouth every
Well, as I say, I put the key in my mouth every night, and I went to sleep without being afraid that the zombie master of mine would stumble onto it.
— from The Life of Lazarillo of Tormes: His Fortunes and Misfortunes as Told by Himself by Anonymous

kindled into more majestic expression
The benevolent features of the venerable spinster kindled into more majestic expression as she told how Charles had, after the field of Worcester, found a day's refuge at Waverley-Honour, and how, when a troop of cavalry were approaching to search the mansion, Lady Alice dismissed her youngest son with a handful of domestics, charging them to make good with their lives an hour's diversion, that the king might have that space for escape.
— from Waverley; Or, 'Tis Sixty Years Since by Walter Scott


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