Men should beware of being captivated by a kind of savage Philosophy, Women by a thoughtless Gallantry.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

2 sex on a business-like basis (as one would buy a kilogram of s.t.).
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

The talk was led, by a kind of spell, to love.
— from The Rainbow by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

There’s some of them that you cannot break in by any kind of severity.
— from Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

Burke , who deserves to be regarded as the most important author who adopts this mode of treatment, infers by this method “that the feeling of the Sublime rests on the impulse towards self-preservation and on fear , i.e. on a pain, which not going so far as actually to derange the parts of the body, produces movements which, since they purify the finer or grosser vessels of dangerous or troublesome stoppages, are capable of exciting pleasant sensations; not indeed pleasure, but a kind of satisfying horror, a certain tranquillity tinged with terror.”
— from Kant's Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant

Clarence will fix you all right.” CHAPTER XIV “DEFEND THEE, LORD” I paid three pennies for my breakfast, and a most extravagant price it was, too, seeing that one could have breakfasted a dozen persons for that money; but I was feeling good by this time, and I had always been a kind of spendthrift anyway; and then these people had wanted to give me the food for nothing, scant as their provision was, and so it was a grateful pleasure to emphasize my appreciation and sincere thankfulness with a good big financial lift where the money would do so much more good than it would in my helmet, where, these pennies being made of iron and not stinted in weight, my half-dollar’s worth was a good deal of a burden to me.
— from A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain

The main entrance of the Garden of Concentrated Fragrance, adjoining the street, was opened wide; and on both sides were raised sheds for the musicians, and two companies of players, dressed in blue, discoursed music at the proper times; while one pair after another of the paraphernalia was drawn out so straight as if cut by a knife or slit by an axe.
— from Hung Lou Meng, or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel, Book I by Xueqin Cao

And, Sir, there must be a kind of solemnity in the manner of a professional man.
— from Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood by James Boswell

The Athenians having left the enemy in their own dominions to go over into Sicily, were not favoured by fortune in their design; but Agathocles, king of Syracuse, found her favourable to him when he went over into Africa and left the war at home.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

It had been sent him by a king of Spain, out of very great friendship.
— from The Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World: from Marathon to Waterloo by Creasy, Edward Shepherd, Sir

There is no sparkling hilarity, but a kind of stupor broods over the whole, and it seems to me as if I had entered into a realm of shadows peopled by half-real phantoms.
— from Legends: Autobiographical Sketches by August Strindberg

But he opened it and stood reading it and here and there, not a process which could be called dipping, but a kind of sucking out of the printed contents, as though he were a vacuum cleaner and you could see the lines of type leaving the pages and being absorbed.
— from Gilbert Keith Chesterton by Maisie Ward

But the play is an admirable one, and Overreach (who, as is well known, was [Pg 400] supposed to be a kind of study of his half namesake, Mompesson, the notorious monopolist) is by far the best single character that Massinger ever drew.
— from A History of Elizabethan Literature by George Saintsbury

A.L.S. OF JOSEPH BONAPARTE, AFTERWARDS KING OF SPAIN, JANUARY, 1806.
— from Chats on Autographs by Alexander Meyrick Broadley

Shame, at best, is but a kind of secondary character in this dramatic book.
— from Bunyan Characters (1st Series) by Alexander Whyte

Then, having said everything that could stir a man’s spleen or pique his valor, they would dare their imaginary hearers, now that the Bannacks were few in number, to come and take their revenge—receiving no reply to this valorous bravado, they would conclude by all kinds of sneers and insults, deriding the Blackfeet for dastards and poltroons, that dared not accept their challenge.
— from The Adventures of Captain Bonneville, U. S. A., in the Rocky Mountains and the Far West by Washington Irving

The lights or single windows are not separated by a stone moulding, but by a kind of shaft or “baluster,” set in the middle of the wall, and supporting the impost.
— from A Handbook of Pictorial History by Henry W. Donald