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kúlang ug tulug The

Masálut ang bátà ug kúlang ug tulug, The child will be stunted if it lacks sleep.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

kings up to that

This man came to be the most prosperous of all the kings up to that time except only his forefather Psammetichos; and he reigned five-and-twenty years, during which he led an army against Sidon and fought a sea-fight with the king of Tyre.
— from The History of Herodotus — Volume 1 by Herodotus

keep up to the

One's ambition and ideals need constant watching and cultivation in order to keep up to the standards.
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden

kept up to this

In Brittany, apparently, the custom of the midsummer bonfires is kept up to this day.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

King up to the

If instead of advancing the Pawn White withdraws his King, Black brings his King up to the Pawn and, when forced to go back, he moves to K in front of the Pawn ready to come up again or to move in front of the White King, as before, should the latter advance.
— from Chess Fundamentals by José Raúl Capablanca

Kana uncle to the

—The honours of the day are chiefly attributed to the brave Kana, uncle to the Rana, and ancestor of that numerous clan called after him Kanawats.
— from Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 1 of 3 or the Central and Western Rajput States of India by James Tod

kept up to the

Sometimes the race was kept up to the very gates of the temple, and the panting pair sped through long files of excited natives, who watched the contest with flashing eye and dilated nostril, encouraging the hunted refugee with sharp, inspiriting ejaculations, and sending up a ringing shout of exultation when the saving gates closed upon him and the cheated pursuer sank exhausted at the threshold.
— from Roughing It by Mark Twain

knotted up the torn

As, with shaking fingers, he knotted up the torn cloth about his neck he laid bare an amulet of the kind called a keeper-up of the heart.
— from Kim by Rudyard Kipling

kept up through their

Whereupon there followed one of those good-natured rough-and-tumble dog-plays which the two had kept up through their whole friendship.
— from The Arm-Chair at the Inn by Francis Hopkinson Smith

know Ursule that the

"Do you know, Ursule, that the more I look at you the more you look like a man to me."
— from The Barber of Paris by Paul de Kock

known under the title

(1) 1 This story is borrowed from an old fabliau , known under the title of the Châtelaine de Vergy , which will be found in the Recueil de Barbazan (vol iv.)
— from The Tales of the Heptameron, Vol. 5 (of 5) by Marguerite, Queen, consort of Henry II, King of Navarre

kings until the time

3,) in speaking " Of the first Constitutions of the Ancient Kings :" "Many ordinances were made by many kings, until the time of the king that now is (Edward I.); the which ordinances were abused, or not used by many, nor very current , because they were not put in writing, and certainly published.
— from An Essay on the Trial by Jury by Lysander Spooner

known unto them thy

And madest known unto them thy holy sabbath, and commandedst them precepts, statutes, and laws, by the hand of Moses thy servant: 16:009:015
— from The Bible, King James version, Book 16: Nehemiah by Anonymous

kind unknown to them

The natives were greatly excited—because it was grain of a kind unknown to them.
— from The Book of the Damned by Charles Fort

kept up to the

Pack’s and Ashworth’s men had received no regular rations for four days [197] , and had only kept up to the front by gleaning in the deserted bivouacs of the French, and borrowing the little that the British commissariat could spare.
— from A History of the Peninsular War, Vol. 4, Dec. 1810-Dec. 1811 Massena's Retreat, Fuentes de Oñoro, Albuera, Tarragona by Charles Oman

knows up to the

She proceeded to relate what the reader already knows up to the episode of the window.
— from Till the Clock Stops by J. J. (John Joy) Bell

knee under the table

The commander touched the chevalier’s knee under the table, and he, as if to avoid speaking, slowly filled and emptied his glass.
— from La Constantin Celebrated Crimes by Alexandre Dumas

keyed up to the

The Man, the cab, love-making, debt-paying, all were forgotten in her desperate effort to keep keyed up to the working-point.
— from The Sick-a-Bed Lady And Also Hickory Dock, The Very Tired Girl, The Happy-Day, Something That Happened in October, The Amateur Lover, Heart of The City, The Pink Sash, Woman's Only Business by Eleanor Hallowell Abbott

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