Citations:ken
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English citations of ken
Verb
[edit]- 1793, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Christabel
- and he kenned
- In the beautiful lady the child of his friend !
- 1896, A. E. Housman, A Shropshire Lad, XLI, lines 21-22
- But here in London streets I ken
- No such helpmates
Noun
[edit]Thieves den
[edit]- 1816, John Keats, On First Looking into Chapman's Homer, lines 9-10
- Then felt I like some watcher of the skies
- When a new planet swims into his ken;
- 1874, James Thomson, The City of Dreadful Night, VII
- I have seen phantoms there that were as men
- And men that were as phantoms flit and roam;
- Marked shapes that were not living to my ken,
Jewish Children's Group
[edit]- 1996, Simi Getter Berman, Ḥalon Patuaḥ, page 33:
- Our chaverim, just a year or so before in our plugah or from our ken or in the Gali!
- 2007, David Gur, דוד גור, Eli Netser, Brothers for Resistance and Rescue, page 87:
- At the beginning of 1944 he was sent to Debreccen to operate the local ken and to organize self-defense.