Servant of Lal Beg' (Kim knew the God of the sweepers), 'run on my business or we will talk again.'
— from Kim by Rudyard Kipling
Nagkasúngag ang duha ka kábaw, The two carabaos are goring each other.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff
kai gar dê kai all' atta pantôs autois, ta men anôthen, ta de katôthen, kai ta men emprosthen, ta d' opisthen, ta d' ek tôn dexiôn, ta d' ek tôn aristerôn ||
— from Galen: On the Natural Faculties by Galen
a toute force[Fr];kai kino ten gen/gr>[Sp][Grk][Grk][Grk][Grk][Grk]; eripuit coelo fulmen sceptrumque tyrannis
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget
Keep, keep, keep to the right.
— from Ulysses by James Joyce
Kalau ’kau ta’ teringatkan aku, ʿKau di-sumpah de’ malaikat ampat puloh ampat.
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat
The fifth is a rock hill in Kansas, known to the whites as Guide rock, and “in the side of the hill there is a great hole where the Nahurac hold councils.”
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney
He looked on the peasant, who began to tremble, while he still gazed; his knees knocked together; his teeth chattered.
— from The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
In his little villa on the seacoast the Belgian King knew that his soldiers were hungry, and paced the floor of his tiny living-room; and over in an American city whose skyline was as pointed with furnace turrets as Constantinople's is with mosques, over there Sara Lee heard that call of hunger, and—put on her engagement ring.
— from The Amazing Interlude by Mary Roberts Rinehart
Away went the surgeon, and the next day all Kalbsbraten knew that I was on the point of death: I had been delirious all night, had had eighty leeches, besides I don't know how much medicine; but the Kalbsbrateners knew to a scruple.
— from The Fitz-Boodle Papers by William Makepeace Thackeray
is the Kaiser who discovered the Well of KARLSBAD (Bath of Karl), known to Tourists of this day; and made the GOLDEN BULL, which I forbid all Englishmen to take for an agricultural Prize Animal, the thing being far other, as is known to several.
— from History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 02 by Thomas Carlyle
" Bending low, Karlson kissed the warm living hand, and was dumb with emotion.
— from The Campaner Thal, and Other Writings by Jean Paul
At eight we reached Khán Kháldáh, the "Mutatio Heldua," according to Pococke, in the Jerusalem Itinerary.
— from Diaries of Sir Moses and Lady Montefiore, Volume 1 (of 2) Comprising Their Life and Work as Recorded in Their Diaries, from 1812 to 1883 by Montefiore, Judith Cohen, Lady
I grant it, that the King knowes too well, And makes this Contract to make his faction strong: Whats a giddy-headed multitude, That's not Disciplinde nor trainde up in Armes, To be trusted unto?
— from Philaster; Or, Love Lies a Bleeding by John Fletcher
Jane and I had conveyed our clubs out to Kashmir, knowing that they were likely to prove useful.
— from A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil by T. R. Swinburne
The tendency of his questions was to show how unlikely it was that he, whom the witness still called a clever, scheming, cold-blooded villain, should use a knife known to be his, a knife that had been seen on his office desk, and leave it in the murdered man's body, knowing that all the time it could be traced to himself.
— from The Day of Judgment by Joseph Hocking
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