For about three centuries the Northern provinces of China had been detached from native rule, and subject to foreign dynasties; first to the Khitan , a people from the basin of the Sungari River, and supposed (but doubtfully) to have been akin to the Tunguses, whose rule subsisted for 200 years, and originated the name of KHITAI, Khata, or CATHAY, by which for nearly 1000 years China has been known to the nations of Inner Asia, and to those whose acquaintance with it was got by that channel.[4]
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa
Notices of Kuniyah, Kaisariya, Sivas, Arzan-ar-Rumi, Arzangan, and Arjish, will be found in Polo's contemporary Abulfeda.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa
Going north into Lee County, Iowa, they located at a place six miles northwest of Keokuk, known as Sugar Creek.
— from A History of Norwegian Immigration to the United States From the Earliest Beginning down to the Year 1848 by George T. (George Tobias) Flom
ka-an, ka-an(←) n most of a number of. Kalabanan (kalabánan) sa mga Pilipínu mugbù, Most Filipinos are short.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff
no objections kein Konto no account kein Rabatt
— from Mr. Honey's Medium Business Dictionary (German-English) by Winfried Honig
And could’st thou leave me, cruel, thus alone? Not one kind kiss from a departing son!
— from The Aeneid by Virgil
Ni malfermis niajn ombrelojn, kaj kuris antaŭen, por iri hejmen antaŭ ol falos multe da pluvo.
— from A Complete Grammar of Esperanto by Ivy Kellerman Reed
“Perhaps so,” said the prince, squeezing her hand with his elbow; “but it’s better when one does good so that you may ask everyone and no one knows.” Kitty did not answer, not because she had nothing to say, but because she did not care to reveal her secret thoughts even to her father.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf
On approaching Fort Hare we were met by Lieutenant Lord Charles Hay, 2nd Queen's, one of the officers just returned with the Governor-General, and from him we learned that Kreli's "Great Place" had been burned to the ground; nearly 10,000 head of cattle, upwards of 100 horses, and 1000 goats, captured, and a great number of Kaffirs killed; a punishment the Chief would not soon forget, as the fine he had refused to pay was only 1500 head of cattle.
— from Campaigning in Kaffirland; Or, Scenes and Adventures in the Kaffir War of 1851-52 by William Ross King
[39] Of the interior population it includes Sea-Dayaks, but no means were obtainable for ascertaining the numbers of Kayans, Kenyahs, and many other tribes that go to make up the population of the State.
— from A History of Sarawak under Its Two White Rajahs 1839-1908 by C. A. Bampfylde
“The generic name of Ku Klux was applied to all secret organizations in the South composed of white natives and having for their object the execution of the ‘first law of nature.’
— from Civil War and Reconstruction in Alabama by Walter L. (Walter Lynwood) Fleming
The extensive gold and copper Kushán currency, with inscriptions in the Greek script, contains the names of Kadphises, Kanishka, Huvishka, and others.
— from The Panjab, North-West Frontier Province, and Kashmir by Douie, James McCrone, Sir
The tank and the hillock close by still go by the name of Kuppichi kulam and Kuppichi kunru, after Kuppi the dancing-girl.
— from Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 6 of 7 by Edgar Thurston
There was a party that night on Kon Klayu.
— from Where the Sun Swings North by Barrett Willoughby
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