There are a kind of men so loose of soul, That in their sleeps will mutter their affairs: One of this kind is Cassio: In sleep I heard him say, "Sweet Desdemona, Let us be wary, let us hide our loves";
— from Othello, the Moor of Venice by William Shakespeare

[6530] Alexander, the son of Amyntas, king of Macedonia, sent two statues of pure gold to Apollo at Delphos.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

It is a kind of miracle bath brought us hither: and it must be little less, that shall bring us hence.
— from New Atlantis by Francis Bacon

They are analogies; for instance, our memory may suggest another kind of memory which makes itself felt in heredity, development, and forms.
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book III and IV by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

. is the Navasāhasānka-charita , a poem celebrating the doings of Navasāhasānka, otherwise Sindhurāja, a king of Mālava, and composed by a poet named Padmagupta , who lived about 1000 A.D.
— from A History of Sanskrit Literature by Arthur Anthony Macdonell

It fell to the lot of General Jovellar, a kindly old man, much more soldier than administrator, to attempt the introduction of certain salutary reforms tending toward progress, hence his disfavor with the holy fathers.
— from The Social Cancer: A Complete English Version of Noli Me Tangere by José Rizal

No, it's because it has a kind of motherly perfume—not too young, you understand—something kind of seasoned and wholesome and dependable—jest like a mother.
— from Anne's House of Dreams by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

On account of these perpetual changes there is no lasting impression on the face, and no expression; but when the child is older and more sensitive, his feelings are keener or more permanent, and these deeper impressions leave traces more difficult to erase; and the habitual state of the feelings has an effect on the features which in course of time becomes ineffaceable.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

" Nestor replied, "Most noble son of Atreus, king of men, Agamemnon, Jove will not do all for Hector that Hector thinks he will; he will have troubles yet in plenty if Achilles will lay aside his anger.
— from The Iliad by Homer

We had a kind of mechanical genius for engineer at that time (he also did the roasting) and he conceived the idea that we ought to get rid of the moisture in the roasting coffee because it would cook quicker.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

Therefore [10] Christ hath tasted Death for every Man ; not only for all Kinds of Men , as some vainly talk, but for every one, of all Kinds ; the Benefit of whose Offering is not only extended to such, who have the distinct outward Knowledge of his Death and Sufferings, as the same is declared in the Scriptures, but even unto those who are necessarily excluded from the Benefit of this Knowledge by some inevitable Accident; which Knowledge we willingly confess to be very profitable and comfortable, but not absolutely needful unto such, from whom God himself hath with-held it; yet they may be made Partakers of the Mystery of his Death (though ignorant of the History) if they suffer his Seed and Light (enlightening their Hearts) to take Place (in which Light, Communion with the Father and Son is enjoyed) so as of wicked Men to become holy, and Lovers of that Power, by whose inward and secret Touches they feel themselves turned from the Evil to the Good, and learn to do to others as they would be done by ; in which Christ himself affirms all to be included.
— from An Apology for the True Christian Divinity Being an explanation and vindication of the principles and doctrines of the people called Quakers by Robert Barclay

They can tell by a look, by a motion, by the tone of a voice, whether to expect from anyone kindness or malignity.
— from The Return Of The Soul 1896 by Robert Hichens

I axed the father wouldn't he see the doctor about him, but he's an aisy kind o' man, my lady, an' he said he would, an' he never did to this day; an' John, he always said it was no use sinding for the doctor, an' looked so swate at me, an' said for me not to fret, for sure he'd be better soon, or he'd go to a better place.
— from The Wide, Wide World by Susan Warner

—A curious animal, known to naturalists as the Kinkajou, but called Jupurá by the Indians of the Amazons, and considered by them as a kind of monkey, may be mentioned in this place.
— from The Naturalist on the River Amazons by Henry Walter Bates

"I rather think," said the Colonel grimly, "that Hest looks upon himself as a kind of modern Robin Hood, who takes from the rich to give to the poor.
— from The Spider by Fergus Hume

I am ignorant, Monsieur, in the knowledge you ascribe to me, but I sometimes , not always , feel a knowledge of my own."
— from Villette by Charlotte Brontë

The result is a kind of mental suppression, if not smothering.
— from How We Think by John Dewey

Take, therefore, all kinds of medicinal herbs, and esculent grain for food, and, together with the seven holy men, your respective wives, and pairs of all animals, enter the ark without fear: then shalt thou know God face to face, and all thy questions shall be answered."
— from The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed by Hugh Miller

The hootings of this unhappy gentleman may generally be heard in the still evenings, when the rooks are all at rest; and I have often listened to them of a moonlight night with a kind of mysterious gratification.
— from Bracebridge Hall, or The Humorists by Washington Irving

The reinforcements to our ally contain, like our own, many very young men, and I was particularly struck with the youthful appearance of the men of a regiment which arrived at Kamiesch on Monday."
— from The British Expedition to the Crimea by Russell, William Howard, Sir