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• There's one part of London where all the Irish live--at least all the worst of them--and there they hatch their villanies and speak this tongue; it is that which keeps them together and makes them dangerous: I was once sent there to seize a couple of deserters--Irish--who had taken refuge amongst their companions; we found them in what was in my time called a ken, that is a house where only thieves and desperadoes are to be found. —  Lavengro The Scholar - The Gypsy - The Priest, Vol. 1 (of 2)
• These have been so imperceptibly made that they are likely to escape our ken, and the eye chiefly settles on some few of the more striking and monumental kind, such as the introduction of railways, of ocean steamships, electricity, and the like. —  Pickwickian Manners and Customs
• You watch the smoke from every farmhouse and cottage within your ken, and still, after curling high up into the pure, rarefied atmosphere, it floats hopelessly away to the southward and corroborates the odious dog-vane that you fondly imagined might have got stuck in its northerly direction. —  Kate Coventry An Autobiography
• As to your gude name, does na everybody ken--an' sorry I am to say it--where your evenings are spent, and what sort o' company ye keep At this Andy laughed a loud, scornful laugh. —  Tom, The Bootblack or, The Road to Success
• Both of these books were previously unknown to my boyish ken, and I need hardly say how entrancing I found them. —  The White Squall A Story of the Sargasso Sea

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