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kindness Roy understood for the

Real kindness, Roy understood for the first time, does not always consist in soft words or an easy manner.
— from The Young Wireless Operator—Afloat Or, How Roy Mercer Won His Spurs in the Merchant Marine by Lewis E. (Lewis Edwin) Theiss

key remains uniform for the

It should be said that uniformity of key does not imply absence of reaction ; there is room, while the key remains uniform, for the juxtaposition of burlesque and romance, just as there is room in Holbein's 'Ambassadors' for the incomprehensible object in the foreground, said to embody a pun (Hohl Bein).
— from A Novelist on Novels by Walter Lionel George

Keppel rushed up from the

As he walked back to General Rundle, Commander Keppel rushed up from the lower deck and informed the assembled officers that water had found its way into the hold, and the gunboat might go down any moment; meanwhile, he had ordered the engineer to make for the shore
— from The Downfall of the Dervishes; or, The Avenging of Gordon by Ernest Nathaniel Bennett

Kafirs round us for that

A little in the way of sport too, though there’s a sight too many Kafirs round us for that to be as good as it ought.”
— from A Veldt Vendetta by Bertram Mitford

King release us from the

In their letter of the 1st of March, 1773, they (the said Warren Hastings and his Council) say, "In no shape can this compulsatory cession by the King release us from the obligation we are under to defend the provinces which we have so particularly guarantied to him.
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 08 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

kopje rising unexpectedly from the

The character of the country in South Africa is all that could be desired for the use of armored trains, especially in the Orange Free State, where the great veldt makes a low horizon on all sides, and the level country is broken only by an occasional kopje rising unexpectedly from the great plain.
— from Blue Shirt and Khaki: A Comparison by James F. J. (Francis Jewell) Archibald

KING RICHARD Unless for that

KING RICHARD Unless for that he comes to be your liege, You cannot guess wherefore the Welshman comes.
— from The Tragedy of King Richard III by William Shakespeare

king rose up from the

And when Guṇaśarman was alarmed as to what it might mean, the king rose up from the seat of justice, and sat at his side, and said to the astonished courtiers, “Hear what Guṇaśarman has done to me; 8 then Guṇaśarman said—“I am a servant, you are my master, so how can our suit be equal, ascend your seat of judgment, and afterwards give what order you like.”
— from The Kathá Sarit Ságara; or, Ocean of the Streams of Story by active 11th century Somadeva Bhatta

Kenney rose up from the

Henry Kenney rose up from the body of the assembly to speak.
— from Salem Witchcraft, Volumes I and II With an Account of Salem Village and a History of Opinions on Witchcraft and Kindred Subjects by Charles Wentworth Upham

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