She may perhaps call him half a score knaves or so; why, that’s nothing; and he begin once, he’ll rail in his rope-tricks.
— from The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare

As to the Amadis, and such kind of stuff, they had not the credit of arresting even my childhood.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

But later on the princess noticed that, apart from this adoration, some kind of serious spiritual change was taking place in her daughter.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

And she kept on saying, “having had tea” or “having drunk tea,” and it seemed as though the only thing she had done in her life was to drink tea.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

It never entered his mind that his father might lose his nerve or his temper, and yet in a subsequent knowledge of statesmen and diplomats extending over several generations, he could not certainly point out another who could have stood such a shock without showing it.
— from The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams

How is it then that we can bear to contemplate him; nay, that, if we really imagine him, we feel admiration and some kind of sympathy?
— from Shakespearean Tragedy: Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth by A. C. (Andrew Cecil) Bradley

As they looked round for a spot, that might afford some kind of shelter, an object was perceived obscurely through the dusk, on a point of rock, a little way down the mountain, which they imagined to be a hunter's or a shepherd's cabin, and the party, with cautious steps, proceeded towards it.
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

As to how far the new warlike age on which we Europeans have evidently entered may perhaps favour the growth of another and stronger kind of skepticism, I should like to express myself preliminarily merely by a parable, which the lovers of German history will already understand.
— from Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

So Tom turns to the nigger, which was looking wild and distressed, and says, kind of severe: “What do you reckon’s the matter with you, anyway?
— from Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

He assembled some kind of STANDE (States) twice over; got the Country "incorporated with Bohemia" by them, and made tight and handy so far.
— from History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 02 by Thomas Carlyle

Kria, while he lived among her people as one of themselves, had seemed to her merely a superior kind of Sâkai.
— from In Court and Kampong Being Tales and Sketches of Native Life in the Malay Peninsula by Clifford, Hugh Charles, Sir

3: Further, the sin against the Holy Ghost is itself a generic sin, having its own determinate species: whereas sin committed through certain malice is not a special kind of sin, but a condition or general circumstance of sin, which can affect any kind of sin at all.
— from Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint

Among the remaining birds, were several specimens of the Skua, Coots, Water-hens, Swifts, and several kinds of Swallows.
— from Life of a Scotch Naturalist: Thomas Edward, Associate of the Linnean Society. Fourth Edition by Samuel Smiles

For when upon Occasion, in Matters of great Moment, we have said, We speak the Truth in the Fear of God, and before him, who is our Witness, and the Searcher of our Hearts , adding such Kind of serious Attestations, which we never refused in Matters of Consequence; nevertheless an Oath hath moreover been required of us, The Ceremonies of an Oath.
— 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

It requires only a superficial knowledge of Scott's method of work to understand that while he was a most careful observer of all that interested him and wrote many accurate descriptions of scenery, he did not hesitate to use his { 130} material with a free hand.
— from The Country of Sir Walter Scott by Charles S. (Charles Sumner) Olcott

Trials were likewise made of the different quantities and qualities of gas produced by coals of various descriptions, such as the Swansea, Haverfordwest, Newcastle, Shropshire, Staffordshire, and some kinds of Scotch coals.
— from A Practical Treatise on Gas-light Exhibiting a Summary Description of the Apparatus and Machinery Best Calculated for Illuminating Streets, Houses, and Manufactories, with Carburetted Hydrogen, or Coal-Gas, with Remarks on the Utility, Safety, and General Nature of this new Branch of Civil Economy. by Friedrich Christian Accum

But suppose the inquirer doubts the possibility of entering into a scientific knowledge of spiritual truth by following this formula, what then?
— from The Church, the Schools and Evolution by J. E. (Judson Eber) Conant

There are several kinds of Spatularia, perennials, sometimes with bulblets; leaves from the root, mostly toothed; flowers white, in open clusters; sepals five; petals all clawed, the three upper differing from the two lower; ovary chiefly superior.
— from Field Book of Western Wild Flowers by Margaret Armstrong