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Khayyam RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM
The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM By Omar Khayyam Rendered into English Verse by Edward Fitzgerald Contents Introduction Footnotes: First Edition Fifth Edition Notes: H2 anchor Introduction Omar Khayyam, The Astronomer-Poet of Persia.
— from The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam by Omar Khayyam

Kawakonuk r of Owen Kawanibio
[II-14] Vicinity of Clear Water r., a sizable stream which separates Wright from Stearns Co.; Kawakomik or Clear Water r. of Nicollet; Kawakonuk r. of Owen; Kawanibio-sibi of Beltrami; and qu.
— from The Expeditions of Zebulon Montgomery Pike, Volume 1 (of 3) To Headwaters of the Mississippi River Through Louisiana Territory, and in New Spain, During the Years 1805-6-7. by Zebulon Montgomery Pike

kitu reminding one of kitten
In Chapanec it is kitu , reminding one of kitten .
— from Notes on the Mangue: An Extinct Dialect Formerly Spoken in Nicaragua by Daniel G. (Daniel Garrison) Brinton

Kāpu ripe or old Kāpu
The Panta Kāpus are said to be divided into two tegas or endogamous divisions, viz., Peramā Reddi or Muduru Kāpu (ripe or old Kāpu); and Kātama Reddi or Letha Kāpu (young or unripe Kāpus).
— from Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 3 of 7 by Edgar Thurston

kind rest on our knowledge
For the purposes, therefore, of the present work, it is allowable to suppose that conclusions respecting the probability of a fact of a particular kind rest on our knowledge of the proportion between the cases in which facts of that kind occur, and those in which they do not occur; this knowledge being either derived from specific experiment, or deduced from our knowledge of the causes in operation which tend to produce, compared with those which tend to prevent, the fact in question.
— from A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive by John Stuart Mill


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