"kuhnt" hidden in books

knights urged her not to

And though the three knights urged her not to put her life in that great peril, she replied, “If I die to heal another’s body, I shall get health to my soul,” and would not be persuaded to refuse.
— from The Legends of King Arthur and His Knights by Knowles, James, Sir

king urging him not to

Monoux refusing to accept this sum, another letter was despatched to him from the king urging him not to stand in the way of a project so useful to merchants and tending so much to the "beautifitye" of the city.
— from London and the Kingdom - Volume 1 A History Derived Mainly from the Archives at Guildhall in the Custody of the Corporation of the City of London. by Reginald R. (Reginald Robinson) Sharpe

keen understanding had not the

You may imagine what an effect it had on my future father-in-law, who, though a man of rather keen understanding, had not the least doubt that he had met with a good son-in-law, and that it remained only for him to allure me cunningly into the snare.
— from The Life and Adventures of Guzman D'Alfarache, or the Spanish Rogue, vol. 3/3 by Mateo Alemán

king urging him not to

There had been rumors that they contemplated something of this [Pg 214] sort, and Lafayette had gone frankly to the king, urging him not to commit such folly.
— from The Boys' Life of Lafayette by Helen Nicolay

keep up his name that

My first impulse was to reply to my brother that it was his duty, as the eldest, to keep up his name; that, as for me, a plain Breton younger son, I would not give up the service, as there was a chance of war; but that, though the King might have need of a soldier in his army, he had no need of a poor gentleman at his Court.
— from The Memoirs of François René Vicomte de Chateaubriand sometime Ambassador to England, Volume 1 (of 6) Mémoires d'outre-tombe, volume 1 by Chateaubriand, François-René, vicomte de

keeps up his night tableaus

Paul keeps up his night tableaus on the Thames.
— from Oswald Langdon or, Pierre and Paul Lanier. A Romance of 1894-1898 by Levi Jackson Hamilton

keep urging him not to

The Prince grew so excited about it all that they had to keep urging him not to take too many chances of being seen.
— from Lifted Masks; stories by Susan Glaspell

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