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any kind but a rocky shore
No houses appeared, no tilled fields, no pastures even, no clearings of any kind; but a rocky shore, with a wooded country behind, was all that they could see.
— from Picked up Adrift Illustrated by James De Mille

any kind being a rare sight
One of these was a very genial and dirty old priest, and the other was a reserved and concen- trated young monk, - the latter (by which I mean a monk of any kind) being a rare sight to-day in France.
— from A Little Tour in France by Henry James

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