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know our history and

However, some persons there were who desired to know our history, and so exhorted me to go on with it; and, above all the rest, Epaphroditus, 4 a man who is a lover of all kind of learning, but is principally delighted with the knowledge of history, and this on account of his having been himself concerned in great affairs, and many turns of fortune, and having shown a wonderful rigor of an excellent nature, and an immovable virtuous resolution in them all.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

kind of hissing as

So they went on a little farther, and they thought that they felt the ground begin to shake under them, as if some hollow place was there; they heard also a kind of hissing, as of serpents; but nothing as yet appeared.
— from The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan Every Child Can Read by John Bunyan

kindly on him and

His lord laughed kindly on him, and bade a shield be brought forth, the workmanship of Didymaon, torn by him from the hallowed gates of Neptune's Grecian temple; with this special prize he rewards his excellence.
— from The Aeneid of Virgil by Virgil

knees of Helios and

Then he cast his arms about the knees of Helios and would not let go his hold but kept entreating him to save him.
— from The Works of the Emperor Julian, Vol. 2 by Emperor of Rome Julian

knew Or how all

Ah no! to this bright flower a thousand years Seemed but the lingering of a summer’s day, It never knew the tide of cankering fears Which turn a boy’s gold hair to withered grey, The dread desire of death it never knew, Or how all folk that they were born must rue.
— from Poems, with The Ballad of Reading Gaol by Oscar Wilde

knows of herself and

Léonie 1 knows only of herself; Léonie 2, of herself and of Léonie 1; Léonie 3 knows of herself and of both the others.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

keep on hating any

"You've told me so little that I can only guess what has been happening; but in the rush we all live in there's no time to keep on hating any one without a cause, and if Bertha is still nasty enough to want to injure you with other people it must be because she's still afraid of you.
— from The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton

knave of his acquaintance

If the villain must disgrace the family, must he blazon it abroad to every low-bred knave of his acquaintance?
— from The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë

knife over here and

Throw your knife over here, and be careful you don't hit anybody with it.
— from For the Liberty of Texas by Edward Stratemeyer

king of Hungary and

Sadoletus, secretary to the Holy See, one of the most distinguished favourites of the Muses, and who, in the judgment of Erasmus, possessed in his writings the copiousness and the manner of Cicero, pronounced, in the presence of the clergy and the Roman people, a discourse, in which he celebrated the zeal and the activity of the sovereign pontiff, the eagerness of the Christian princes to make peace with each other, and the desire they evinced to unite their powers against the Turks: the orator reminded his auditory of the emperor of Germany and the king of France, glorious pillars of Christendom; of the army of Charles, king of Castile, whose youth exhibited all the virtues of ripened age; of the king of England, the invincible defender of the faith; of Emanuel, king of Portugal, always ready to sacrifice his own interests to those of the Church; of Louis II., king of Hungary; and Sigismund, king of Poland; the first, a young prince, the hope of Christians; the second, worthy to be their leader; of the king of Denmark, with whose devotion to religion Europe was well acquainted; and of James, king of Scotland, the examples of whose family must keep him in the road of virtue and glory.
— from The History of the Crusades (vol. 3 of 3) by J. Fr. (Joseph Fr.) Michaud

keys of Hades and

She came for the Vanquished; but failed to understand that He was a Victor over the principalities and powers of hell; and that the keys of Hades and the grave were hanging at His girdle, whilst the serpent was bruised beneath His feet.
— from Love to the Uttermost Expositions of John XIII.-XXI. by F. B. (Frederick Brotherton) Meyer

killed one hundred and

Suddenly the flag of truce was taken down, and instantly the British cavalry rushed from all sides upon Buford's men and killed one hundred and thirteen and wounded one hundred and fifty.
— from The Story of American History for Elementary Schools by Albert F. (Albert Franklin) Blaisdell

kind of howl according

The women, as he came along, set up a kind of howl, according to their custom, but he looked neither to the right nor left, and seemed totally unconscious of any one’s existence but his own.
— from Summer Cruise in the Mediterranean on board an American frigate by Nathaniel Parker Willis

knowledge of human and

Let us see if we have a little more light in the knowledge of human and natural things.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

kind of hardness and

I am inclined to think that he carried copying too far; for the principal defect of his later pictures is a kind of hardness and want of thought in the touch, a verging on the mechanical, as if his hand and feeling did not keep perfectly together.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 74, December, 1863 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various

keer of him all

Ain't I tuk good keer of him all winter?"
— from A Modern Madonna by Caroline Abbot Stanley

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