< Hindi ≪ Sanskrit krośa
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After about four kos, the sun began again to assert his supremacy, and, in conjunction with the cold of the morning, rather took liberties with our faces and hands.
From Diary of a Pedestrian in Cashmere and Thibet by Knight, William Henry
The last few kos we find invariably longer than their fellows; one kos by DESCRIPTION, at this stage of the proceedings, being generally equal to two in reality.
From Diary of a Pedestrian in Cashmere and Thibet by Knight, William Henry
It was altogether considerably over a Sabbath-day's journey, being nine kos of a bad mountain-path; but as no supplies whatever were procurable short of it, we held on our course.
From Diary of a Pedestrian in Cashmere and Thibet by Knight, William Henry
One day he was a swarein' kos he didn't hev better corn.
From Letters of Major Jack Downing, of the Downingville Militia by Smith, Seba
About three kos from Sirinugger, we stopped at another very extensive site of Cyclopeian ruins, at a place called Pandreton.
From Diary of a Pedestrian in Cashmere and Thibet by Knight, William Henry
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