"Kilo" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... every morning as regularly as two minutes past seven came—not an instant before, not an instant after. He turned the trick by jumping up on the bed and looking steadily into my face. Never touched me, you understand. Well, I waked this morning just after sunrise with a feeling that Kilo was there staring at me. Somebody was—" Billy paused. He swallowed rapidly and wet his lips. "But it wasn't ...
— Angel Island • Inez Haynes Gillmore
... {kilo-}] A kilobyte. Used both as a spoken word and a written suffix (like {meg} and {gig} for ...
— The Jargon File, Version 4.0.0
... between Rieka and Yugoslavia. At Rieka during April eggs were 80 centimes apiece, while at Bakar, a few miles away, they cost 25 centimes; milk at Rieka was 6 crowns the litre and at Bakar one crown; beef was 30 crowns a kilo and at Bakar 8 crowns. Italy was calling Rieka her pearl—a pearl of great price; the Yugoslavs said it was the lung of their country. It is within the knowledge of the Italianists that the prosperity of Rieka ...
— The Birth of Yugoslavia, Volume 2 • Henry Baerlein
... which we had been travelling for two days in our car were military roads. And we could tell instantly when we were inside the thirty kilo limit of the firing line, by looking at the road menders. If they were German prisoners we were outside the thirty kilo strip. For when the Germans discovered last spring that the Allies held more prisoners than the Germans, the Germans demanded a rule for ...
— The Martial Adventures of Henry and Me • William Allen White |
