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kitchen range does
In houses of moderate size the kitchen range does the heating.
— from How it Works Dealing in simple language with steam, electricity, light, heat, sound, hydraulics, optics, etc., and with their applications to apparatus in common use by Archibald Williams

know Riley does
But them fine-talking men from the big towns mostly wear the false shirt-fronts; they wear a frill till it's all a mess, and then hide it with a bib; I know Riley does.
— from The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

kisses rightly deeming
[Pg 89] ered the earth with kisses, rightly deeming her to be the mother of all.
— from Dio's Rome, Volume 1 (of 6) An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek during the Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus: and Now Presented in English Form by Cassius Dio Cocceianus

knots reconciling discrepancies
Only greater success than that of its rivals in clarifying dark spots, untying hard knots, reconciling discrepancies, can elect it or prove it a valid idea for the given situation.
— from How We Think by John Dewey

kept running down
Alyosha flushed, and faint, imperceptible shivers kept running down him.
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

knights Richard de
Richard Tilberie, William de Wockendon, Richard de Harlowe, knights, Peter of Stanforde, Thomas of Waldon, and some others. Sir Walter Baude, son to William, confirmed this gift, in the 30th of the said king, and the witnesses thereunto were Nicholas de Wokendon, Richard de Rokeley, Thomas de Mandevile, John de Rochford, knights, Richard de Broniford, William de Markes, William de Fulham, and other.
— from The Survey of London by John Stow

keen reproaches dealt
The stabs his keen reproaches dealt, And of Śatrughna's ire afraid, To Bharat flew and cried for aid.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

Kuan Raja di
[cxix] An Invitation to the Spirits Hei Si Arong-arong, Si Arang-arang, Marang Kuan, Raja di Rimba, Rang Jana Rut Jana, Sang Mertin, Sah Mertin, Sang Bujok, Ummai Bujok!
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat

Kay really dead
Oh! is little Kay really dead?
— from Andersen's Fairy Tales by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

KIPLING RUDYARD Debits
KIPLING, RUDYARD. Debits and credits.
— from U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1953 July - December by Library of Congress. Copyright Office

Khmer Republic Democratic
Government Cambodia Country name: conventional long form: Kingdom of Cambodia conventional short form: Cambodia local long form: Preahreacheanachakr Kampuchea (phonetic pronunciation) local short form: Kampuchea former: Kingdom of Cambodia, Khmer Republic, Democratic Kampuchea, People's Republic of Kampuchea, State of Cambodia Government type: multiparty democracy under a constitutional monarchy Capital: name: Phnom Penh geographic coordinates: 11 33 N, 104 55 E time difference: UTC+7 (12 hours ahead of Washington, DC during Standard Time) Administrative divisions: 20 provinces (khaitt, singular and plural) and 4 municipalities* (krong, singular and plural) provinces: Banteay Mean Cheay, Batdambang, Kampong Cham, Kampong Chhnang, Kampong Spoe, Kampong Thum, Kampot, Kandal, Kaoh Kong, Krachen, Mondol Kiri, Otdar Mean Cheay, Pouthisat, Preah Vihear, Prey Veng, Rotanah Kiri, Siem Reab, Stoeng Treng, Svay Rieng, Takev municipalities:
— from The 2007 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

Keppais R Diogenes
Sir William Aristophanes, 70 Kenyon, Frederic G. Aristotle, 63; Hyperides, 1 Keppais, R. Diogenes Laertius, 1 Kerr, A. Euripides, 3* Plato, 13* King, C W. Plutarch, 34 Knight, Henry J. Corbett Euripides, 63 L., H. B. Euripides, 64 Lamb, Dr. Aratus of Soli, 1 Lang, Andrew Anthology, 7; Homer, 94, 100; Theocritus, 10 Lang, E. Aeschylus, 38 Langhorne, John Bion, 3; Plutarch, 20 Langhorne, William Plutarch, 20 Langley, Samuel Homer, 28 Laurence, C. E. Sophocles, 64 Laurent, E. P. Herodotus, 5; Pindar, 15 Leaf, Walter Homer, 100 Lee, Francis Pindar, 12 Lee, John R. Euripides, 42 Le Grice, C. P. Longus, 4 Leland, Thomas Demosthenes, 6 Lenox, Mrs. Charlotte Euripides, 6; Sophocles, 9 Leonard, William Ellery Empedocles, 1* L'Estrange, Sir Roger Aesop, 20 Levien Xenophon, 41 Lewers, W. Herodotus, 10 Lewis, Arthur Gardner Homer, 15* Liardet Aesop, 32 Lindsay, A. D. Plato, 66 Lindsay, T. M. Plato, 14* Lisle, William Heliodorus, 4 [pg 138] Littlebury, Isaac Herodotus, 2 Llody, Humfry Hippocrates, 2 Lloyd, David Plutarch, 13 Lloyd, W. W. Pindar, 20 Locke, John Aesop, 24 Long, George Epictetus, 10; Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, 6; Plutarch, 26 Longworth, N. Sophocles, 8* Loveday, T. Aristotle, 84 Lowe, Peter Hippocrates, 3 Lowe, W. D. Longus, 8 Lowth, Bishop Prodicus, 1 Lucas, Robert Homer, 31 Luck, R. Musaeus, 9 M., I. (James Maxwell?)
— from English Translations from the Greek: A Bibliographical Survey by Finley Melville Kendall Foster

kills raths duns
396 Ireland a peculiar country; its abundance of place names as compared with Great Britain—Its ballys , kills , raths , duns and lises ; their immensity—Dense rural population of Ireland in ancient times—Antiquity of Ireland.
— from Beauties and Antiquities of Ireland Being a Tourist's Guide to Its Most Beautiful Scenery & an Archæologist's Manual for Its Most Interesting Ruins by Thomas O’Neill Russell

know returned Dave
"I don't know," returned Dave.
— from The Grammar School Boys of Gridley; or, Dick & Co. Start Things Moving by H. Irving (Harrie Irving) Hancock

King Ring desired
But because the people loved Frithiof, they cried: "Govern thou the realm while our king is young, and let us celebrate thy marriage with Ingeborg, as King Ring desired."
— from Told by the Northmen: Stories from the Eddas and Sagas by E. M. (Ethel Mary) Wilmot-Buxton

King Richard dead
All persons, saving only Owain Glyndwyr and Henry of Lancaster, believed King Richard dead at that period when Richard attended his own funeral, as a proceeding taking to the fancy, and, among many others, saw the body of Edward Maudelain interred with every regal ceremony in the chapel at Langley Bower.
— from Chivalry by James Branch Cabell

Kugel Run d
Und mein Herzerl, dös laß ich Dahoam in dein Haus, Sonst traf’s leicht a Kugel, Run d’ Liab alli r’aus!“
— from Eingeschneit: Eine Studentengeschichte by Emil Frommel

knowledge rude defiler
O, knowledge, rude defiler of our dreams, How oft we'd give thy hard, substantial store To build again with bright illusion's eye Our happy towers on the inconstant clouds: [ Sees a light through curtains ]
— from Lords and Lovers, and Other Dramas by Olive Tilford Dargan


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