Citations:ken

English citations of ken

Verb

• 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

Thieves den

• 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

• 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.