From Dutch; see origin at case 2
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Candidate Tom Dewey, who kas always been a faithful reader of the pollster's barometer, was presented last week with a forecast of the political climate.
From Time Magazine Archive
I live in the East main street of Ujjaini, which is twenty kas to the south of this place, and so lies on your way when you return from Benares.
From Indian Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs
Over the chimney-piece is a beautifully painted landscape, and on the left against the wall a large armoire or kas of black wood ornamented with gold, above which hangs a large portrait.
From The Standard Galleries - Holland by Esther Singleton
This s is only wanted to supply the final s of kas, the interrogative pronoun, in such a sentence as kas tadgunah? what is the use of this?
From Chips From A German Workshop - Volume I Essays on the Science of Religion by F. Max (Friedrich Max) Müller
Their divine souls come forth upon earth to do the will of their kas; let, therefore, the soul of Osiris Ani come forth to do the will of his ka.”
From Egyptian Literature Comprising Egyptian tales, hymns, litanies, invocations, the Book of the Dead, and cuneiform writings by Epiphanius Wilson
They at once got after Zimick so hard that he took me and went to Kinsely, Kas., where Mr. Gorman was.
From The Life and Adventures of Nat Love Better Known in the Cattle Country as "Deadwood Dick" by Nat Love
Suffrage, in Kas., xv; bill vetoed in Mich., xv; 123;effect in Kas.,
From The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV by Ida Husted Harper
I invited Mr. Leonard Smith, of Leavenworth, Kas., to go with me up to his house and see him.
From History of the Impeachment of Andrew Johnson, President of the United States, by the House of Representatives, and his trial by the Senate for high crimes and misdemeanors in office, 1868 by Edmund G. (Edmund Gibson) Ross
W Wait, Anna C., 18; welcomes conv. to Kas. in '86, 418;assists on Kas. chap.,
From The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV by Ida Husted Harper
Powder Makatay Kas. ki tay o Al aizay Tel ge gonna.
From Notes of a Twenty-Five Years' Service in the Hudson's Bay Territory Volume II. by John M'lean
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