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king in that tale of

G——, at this solemn moment, resembled the king in that tale of the Orient who was flesh above and marble below.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

kept in the time of

And I saw that He willeth that we understand He taketh not harder the falling of any creature that shall be saved than He took the falling of Adam, which, we know, was endlessly loved and securely kept in the time of all his need, and now is blissfully restored in high overpassing joy.
— from Revelations of Divine Love by of Norwich Julian

Knowledge is the treasure of

Knowledge is the treasure of the mind, but discretion is the key to it, without which it is useless.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

kindness I to the office

He gone, I mightily pleased with his kindness, I to the office, where busy till night, and then to Mrs. Turner’s, where my wife, and Deb., and I, and Batelier spent the night, and supped, and played at cards, and very merry, and so I home to bed.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

knife into the throat of

After she had hung them round with vervain and forest boughs, throwing up the earth from two trenches not far off, she performed the rites, and plunged a knife into the throat of a black ram, and besprinkled the wide trenches with blood.
— from The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII by Ovid

known in the time of

I will not repeat the many discussions respecting whether the poems were written or not, or whether the art of writing was known in the time of their reputed author.
— from The Iliad by Homer

kept in the Temple of

‘There existed also Etruscan libri fatales ( Books of Fate ), and these, together with the Sibylline Books, were kept in the Temple of Capitoline Jupiter.
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce

kabong into the top of

Thus, for instance, it was formerly the custom to insert a number of sugar-palm twigs ( sĕgar kabong ) into the top of the ship’s mast, making the end of it look not unlike a small birch of black twigs.
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat

kudumi is the tuft of

—The kudumi is the tuft of hair, which is left when the head of Hindus is shaved.
— from Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 4 of 7 by Edgar Thurston

kept in the temple of

Anciently they were kept in the temple of Ceres.
— from Roman Antiquities, and Ancient Mythology For Classical Schools (2nd ed) by Charles K. (Charles Knapp) Dillaway

king If the thought of

" Again said the king, "If the thought of death be profitable, as ye say, why should ye not reach that thought of death by the bones of the bodies that are now your own, and are soon to perish, rather than by the bones of other men which have already perished?" The monk said, "Five reasons I gave thee, why we carry about these relics; and thou, making answer to one only, art like to be mocking us.
— from Barlaam and Ioasaph by Saint John of Damascus

kept in the Treasury of

The money of the people should be kept in the Treasury of the people created by law, and be in the custody of agents of the people chosen by themselves according to the forms of the Constitution--agents who are directly responsible to the Government, who are under adequate bonds and oaths, and who are subject to severe punishments for any embezzlement, private use, or misapplication of the public funds, and for any failure in other respects to perform their duties.
— from State of the Union Addresses (1790-2006) by United States. Presidents

know is the time of

“If your opinion be favourable, the point which will most interest me to know is the time of publishing; for, seeing that I want some material which I can only obtain by personal intercourse, the longer the interval, moderately speaking, the better for me.
— from Charles Lever, His Life in His Letters, Vol. I by Charles James Lever

know if this talk of

If you know if this talk of his has any other root, please to enlighten me, that I may put a stop to false reports, for I know nothing of affairs except what you tell me."
— from PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete by John Lothrop Motley

Kennan is twice that of

The suicide rate of Protestants in the northern part of Ireland, as pointed by Mr. George Kennan, is twice that of Roman Catholics in the southern part.
— from Psychotherapy Including the History of the Use of Mental Influence, Directly and Indirectly, in Healing and the Principles for the Application of Energies Derived from the Mind to the Treatment of Disease by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh

know if taking this old

… I should like to know, if, taking this old Declaration of Independence, which declares that all men are equal, upon principle, and making exceptions to it, where will it stop?
— from Charles Sumner: his complete works, volume 12 (of 20) by Charles Sumner

Kölliker in thinking the objections

It will be obvious from what has preceded, that we do not agree with Professor Kölliker in thinking the objections which he brings forward so weighty as to be fatal to Darwin's view.
— from Darwiniana : Essays — Volume 02 by Thomas Henry Huxley

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