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king ordered it to

A favourite dog having broken into the room where the king was dining, the king ordered it to be killed on the spot.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

know of it the

But owing to the superstition that the fewer the people who know of it the less a woman in travail suffers, everyone tried to pretend not to know; no one spoke of it, but apart from the ordinary staid and respectful good manners habitual in the prince’s household, a common anxiety, a softening of the heart, and a consciousness that something great and mysterious was being accomplished at that moment made itself felt.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

King Olaf in the

He proceeded until he came to King Olaf in the town (Nidaros); told the king all that had happened, and presented to him the silver plate.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

kisses on it that

Maggie shut up the book at once, with a sense of disgrace, but not being inclined to see after her mother, she compromised the matter by going into a dark corner behind her father's chair, and nursing her doll, toward which she had an occasional fit of fondness in Tom's absence, neglecting its toilet, but lavishing so many warm kisses on it that the waxen cheeks had a wasted, unhealthy appearance.
— from The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

kicked over if the

He jumped up from his seat, and, leaving his pail to be kicked over if the milcher had such a mind, went quickly towards the desire of his eyes, and, kneeling down beside her, clasped her in his arms.
— from Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman by Thomas Hardy

king of India ten

Their gifts or tributes, arms, rich garments, gems, slaves or aromatics, were humbly presented at the foot of his throne; and he condescended to accept from the king of India ten quintals of the wood of aloes, a maid seven cubits in height, and a carpet softer than silk, the skin, as it was reported, of an extraordinary serpent.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

King Olaf in the

The same winter came ambassadors from Gautland, and fell in with King Olaf in the north, in Nidaros, and brought the message which Halfred had spoken of,—that the earl desired to be King Olaf's entire friend, and wished to become his brother-in-law by obtaining his sister Ingebjorg in marriage.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

Kayab occupy in the

The all-important question of course is, What position did the date 9 Kan 12 Kayab occupy in the Long Count?
— from An Introduction to the Study of the Maya Hieroglyphs by Sylvanus Griswold Morley

keep on in that

He knew better than to keep on in that strain.
— from The Outdoor Girls in a Winter Camp Or, Glorious Days on Skates and Ice Boats by Laura Lee Hope

knowledge of it than

This taking it apart and putting it back together again gave young Renaud a much better knowledge of it than he had had heretofore.
— from Stand By: The Story of a Boy's Achievement in Radio by Hugh McAlister

knew of in the

Had it not been for them that fraud of a showman might have succeeded in coaxing the chief to start away, with most of the people, tagging after him, to leave them stranded and helpless in some faraway station; while meanwhile he returned to try and find the secret treasure which report said the Witch Doctor knew of in the heart of the Sacred Mountain.
— from The Broncho Rider Boys Along the Border Or, The Hidden Treasure of the Zuni Medicine Man by Frank Fowler

kind of impressionism that

I wonder if anyone, small or grown up, can understand this: "It was indeed a higher kind of impressionism that Monet originated, one that reveals a vivid rendering, not of the natural and concrete facts, but of their influence upon the spirit when they are wrapped in the infinite diversities of that impalpable, immaterial, universal medium which we call light, when the concrete loses itself in the abstract, and what is of time and matter impinges on the eternal and the universal."
— from Pictures Every Child Should Know A Selection of the World's Art Masterpieces for Young People by Mary Schell Hoke Bacon

King of Israel that

A NEW KIND OF KING 'On the next day much people that were come to the feast, when they heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem, took branches of palm-trees, and went forth to meet Him, and cried, Hosanna: Blessed is the King of Israel that cometh in the name of the Lord.
— from Expositions of Holy Scripture: St. John Chapters I to XIV by Alexander Maclaren

kind of innkeepers to

Towards the mill I was journeying at the easy pace of my pony, early on a summer’s morning, preferring the rural breakfast with the miller—for they are always a kind of innkeepers—to the fare of the village.
— from Arthur O'Leary: His Wanderings And Ponderings In Many Lands by Charles James Lever

Knyghte or in The

Nor does he appear in Syr Gawayne and the Grene Knyghte or in The Avowynge of Arthur .
— from The Legend of Sir Lancelot du Lac Studies upon its Origin, Development, and Position in the Arthurian Romantic Cycle by Jessie L. (Jessie Laidlay) Weston

kingdom of Italy the

But in the kingdom of Italy the parishes and dioceses are, if possible, still worse served than in this country.
— from Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon by Various

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