186 examples of ker in sentences

"You're old peaches on raisin fouls, I've been told," said I. "Ker-r-rect," said he, "chickens is my best holt.

THE FAITH OF ENGLAND An Address to the Union Society of University College, London, March 22,1917 When Professor W.P. Ker asked me to address you on this ceremonial occasion I felt none of the confidence of the man who knows what he wants to say, and is looking for an audience.

But Professor Ker is my old friend, and this place is the place where I picked up many of those fragmentary impressions which I suppose must be called my education.

Poetical Works, with Life, edited by Christie; the same, edited by Noyes, in Cambridge Poets Series; Life and Works (18 vols.), by Walter Scott, revised (1893) by Saintsbury; Essays, edited by Ker; Life, by Saintsbury (English Men of Letters); Macaulay's Essay; Lowell's Essay, in Among My Books (or in Literary Essays, vol. 3); Dowden's Essay, supra.

"I've ker-come to see you about the debt which my nun-nephew, Mark, owes the estate.

It isn't harsh to do that, is it?" "Not ha'sh to a-ask for it, but not jest the ker-kind thing to bring ser-suit before askin'.

" "Ef so be Squire Ker-Kinloch was alive, I could tell you ber-better; or rather, I shouldn't have to go to yer-you about it.

" "Very ker-kind indeed!

Be-tween the fin-ger and thumb of each hand was one of his cook-ing forks, stuck through two of the o-gress's ve-ry best hand-ker-chiefs, which made ve-ry ad-mi-ra-ble sails, catch-ing the wind, and waft-ing him a-long o-ver the sea as well as the fi-nest ship e-ver built.

In words of more than one syllable, it is best to pronounce each syllable separately, car, pet,po, ker,and so on.

Ta-ble Car-pet Can-dle Po-ker

In the former year died Dr. W.B. Robertson of Irvine; and, later, Dr. John Ker, who had been his fellow-student at the University and at the Divinity Hall, his neighbour at Alnwick in the early Berwick days, and at last his colleague as a professor in the United Presbyterian College.

The summit of the back hills (which were named by Mr. Cunningham's desire after John Bellenden Ker, Esquire) now began to be enveloped in clouds, and the wind to increase; and no meridional altitude was obtained, from the unfortunate state of the weather.

The next morning we were off the southernmost Barnard's Island, and as the coast between Double Point and Fitzroy Island had not been satisfactorily laid down on the previous examination of this part, we steered near the shore in order to improve it; but the land was much overcast and the summits of Bellenden Ker's Range were so enveloped in clouds that very little improvement was effected.

Amidst all these pernicious wanderings from the paths of religion, virtue, and happiness, he approved himself so well in his military character, that he was made a lieutenant in that year, viz. 1706; and I am told he was very quickly after promoted to a cornet's commission in Lord Stair's regiment of the Scots Greys, and, on the 31st of January, 1714-15, was made captain-lieutenant in Colonel Ker's regiment of dragoons.

2. Corrections of Webster, mostly by Rule 1st: bar-ber, bur-nish, bris-ket, can-ker, char-ter, cuc-koo, fur-nish, gar-nish, guilt-y, han-ker, lus-ty, por-tal, tar-nish, tes-tate, tes-ty, trai-tor, trea-ty, var-nish, ves-tal, di-ur-nal, e-ter-nal, in-fer-nal, in-ter-nal, ma-ter-nal, noc-tur-nal, pa-ter-nal.

2. Corrections of Webster, mostly by Rule 1st: bar-ber, bur-nish, bris-ket, can-ker, char-ter, cuc-koo, fur-nish, gar-nish, guilt-y, han-ker, lus-ty, por-tal, tar-nish, tes-tate, tes-ty, trai-tor, trea-ty, var-nish, ves-tal, di-ur-nal, e-ter-nal, in-fer-nal, in-ter-nal, ma-ter-nal, noc-tur-nal, pa-ter-nal.

KER, ALAN. Alfred Edward Housman.

J. Harris Gable (A); 12Mar64; R334297. SYMONS, KATHARINE E. Alfred Edward Housman, by K. E. Symons, A. W. Pollard, L. Housman, Alan Ker, A. S. F. Gow, John Sparrow & R. W. Chambers.

New matter by Edmund T. Ker.

Ker whack!' "Aventine, where I was born an' bred, was acrost Secon' Creek.

Numerous native fires were observed burning on the shore during the first watch, at the foot of the Bellenden Ker hills, remarkable mountains of considerable altitude.

(See W. P. Ker, The Dark Ages, p. 317.)

Johnie Faa Johnson, Samuel Jones, Inigo Jones, John Jones, Richard Jones, Stephen Jonson, Benjamin Jonsonus Verbius Julius Caesar Jupiter and Io Jusserand, J. J. Juvenal, 6. K., E. Ker, Robert (Earl of Roxburgh)

[Footnote 3: See good evidence in Ker of Kersland's Memoirs.]

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