At the accession of Victoria the romantic movement had spent its force; Wordsworth had written his best work; the other romantic poets, Coleridge, Shelley, Keats, and Byron, had passed away; and for a time no new development was apparent in English poetry.
— from English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English-Speaking World by William J. (William Joseph) Long

the name of a coarse rough material, PP; caurimauri , S2; kaurymaury , PP; cawrymawry , PP ( n. ).
— from A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 to 1580 by A. L. (Anthony Lawson) Mayhew

cold, PP; chald , S; kald , S; cald , S2, MD; kold , S; chold , S; cheld , S2; cold , evil, G.—AS.
— from A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 to 1580 by A. L. (Anthony Lawson) Mayhew

Think of the suffering of this splendid man, who was conscious of possessing colossal scientific knowledge, and yet was absolutely unable to express himself grammatically!
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden

Knelyng , sb. kneeling, PP; cnelinng , S; knewelyng , S. Kneon , sb.
— from A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 to 1580 by A. L. (Anthony Lawson) Mayhew

‘I need not ask you if he is out of his mind, poor creature,’ said Kate.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

‘Poor creature!’ said Kate.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

Knowledge of things by description , on the contrary, always involves, as we shall find in the course of the present chapter, some knowledge of truths as its source and ground.
— from The Problems of Philosophy by Bertrand Russell

"You're the prison chaplain," said K., and went closer to the priest, it was not so important for him to go straight back to the bank as he had made out, he could very well stay where he was.
— from The Trial by Franz Kafka

“You’ve set my very brains wool-gathering between you, with your ‘vessels in distress’ and ‘ghost-ships’; I’m hanged if I won’t go down to the engine-room and have a little practical common sense knocked into me, as well as see how they’re getting on with the repairs to the machinery!”
— from The Ghost Ship: A Mystery of the Sea by John C. (John Conroy) Hutcheson

The accounts of the people of the various places visited, and their peculiar customs, show keen powers of observation as well as skill of description.”— Boston Transcript.
— from Ocean Steamships A popular account of their construction, development, management and appliances by A. E. (Albert Edward) Seaton

9 That every ship in the fleete in the time of fogs, which continually happen with little winds, and most part calmes, shal keepe a reasonable noise with trumpet, drumme, or otherwise, to keepe themselues cleere one of another.
— from The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of The English Nation — Volume 12 America, Part I by Richard Hakluyt

His pen could scarcely keep up with the flow of his thoughts.
— from By Berwen Banks by Allen Raine

Slowski, now an ancient dog, had a wen behind his shoulder, which grew and grew until the Professor could scarcely keep his hands from it.
— from Clara Vaughan, Volume 3 (of 3) by R. D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore

The player calling “First Knock” taps one hand of the girl or boy holding the stone; if the hand touched contains the stone, the player knocking is “it,” and the game begins, but if the hand is empty, the player is free and the stone-holder puts her hand back of her while she does or does not change the stone to the other hand; again stretching her clinched hands forward, she allows the player calling “Second knock” to try her luck by tapping one of the outstretched hands.
— from Things Worth Doing and How To Do Them by Lina Beard

In the present case she knew well enough what she wanted, and how to get it.
— from The Custom of the Country by Edith Wharton

Military expenditures: 5.3% of GDP (2006) Transnational Issues Kuwait Disputes - international: Kuwait and Saudi Arabia continue negotiating a joint maritime boundary with Iran; no maritime boundary exists with Iraq in the Persian Gulf Trafficking in persons: current situation: Kuwait is a destination country for men and women who migrate legally from South and Southeast Asia for domestic or low-skilled labor, but are subjected to conditions of involuntary servitude by employers in Kuwait including conditions of physical and sexual abuse, non-payment of wages, confinement to the home, and withholding of passports to restrict their freedom of movement; Kuwait is reportedly a transit point for South and East Asian workers recruited for low-skilled work in Iraq; some of these workers are deceived as to the true location and nature of this work, and others are subjected to conditions of involuntary servitude in Iraq tier rating: Tier 3 - insufficient efforts in 2007 to prosecute and punish abusive employers and those who traffic women for sexual exploitation; the government failed for the fourth year in a row to live up to promises to provide shelter and protective services for victims of involuntary domestic servitude and other forms of trafficking (2008)
— from The 2008 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

He had heard the day before, that M. Deneulin, the owner of a neighbouring pit, could scarcely keep going.
— from Germinal by Émile Zola