The state bed of Sobieski, King of Poland, was made of Smyrna gold brocade embroidered in turquoises with verses from the Koran.
— from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

Poggius the Florentine tells a merry story to this purpose, condemning the folly and impertinent business of such kind of persons.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

In this their conclusion was natural, but not [51] based on subtle knowledge of Paul's character.
— from Oswald Langdon or, Pierre and Paul Lanier. A Romance of 1894-1898 by Levi Jackson Hamilton

Before passing to the subject of the costly mouth-pieces of Oriental pipes, we must say a few words concerning the extraordinary care bestowed on some kinds of plain wood sticks for stems or tubes.
— from Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce by E. R. Billings

I remembered the cautious deliberation of the earlier proceedings, and came to the conclusion that whereas there had been for many months an ample supply of chaplains at the front, and a regular flow of reinforcements from home, a sudden and desperate shortage had occurred—owing to casualties in battle, or some kind of pestilence—and that it was necessary to rush new men to the scene of action at the highest speed.
— from A Padre in France by George A. Birmingham

"A manufacturer may be offering a booklet, or some kind of prize free, see?
— from Dave Dawson at Singapore by Robert Sidney Bowen

The same substance reduced to a perfectly fine or impalpable powder, is the article which is sold under the name of powder-blue , and which is not only used by laundresses and others in the getting up of linen, but also as the basis of several kinds of paint; and by the manufacturers of writing and printing papers, to give a blue tinge to those articles.
— from Useful Knowledge: Volume 1. Minerals Or, a familiar account of the various productions of nature by William Bingley

We overtook a white man on foot, with twelve loaded horses, and a very small poney which carried a saddle; the loads were all alike, each horse carrying two skins or bags of some kind of provisions.
— from Travels in Brazil by Henry Koster

Many murders have been discovered among them; and they are not only a most unspeakable oppression to poor tenants (who, if they give not bread or some kind of provision to perhaps forty such villains in one day, are sure to be insulted by them), but they rob many poor people who live in houses distant from any neighbourhood.
— from Guy Mannering, Or, the Astrologer — Complete by Walter Scott