Nor, again, does Aristotle bring us much nearer such knowledge by telling us that the Good in conduct is to be found somewhere between different kinds of Bad.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick
Some of them were kept for the purposes of more distant Kula; or to be given on some future, special occasion when a present had to be handed over in association with some ceremony.
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski
Otherwise, for instance, the mango-tree, the red Açoka, the orange Kadamba, the various creepers, the different kinds of lotus, the mention of each of which should convey a vivid picture, are but empty names.
— from A History of Sanskrit Literature by Arthur Anthony Macdonell
he said, and he looked at her with admiration, for she had inspired him with a feeling of respect and of a very different kind of admiration which was the beginning of a real love for that tall, strong wench.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant
"We have also large and various orchards and gardens; wherein we do not so much respect beauty, as variety of ground and soil, proper for divers trees and herbs: and some very spacious, where trees and berries are set whereof we make divers kinds of drinks, besides the vineyards.
— from New Atlantis by Francis Bacon
2 = rúsa . — dihapun, — dipapil kinds of chrysanthemums.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff
Now we are in the street; He first of all Improvidently proud, creepes to the wall, And so imprisoned, and hem'd in by mee 70 Sells for a little state his libertie; Yet though he cannot skip forth now to greet [page 148] Every fine silken painted foole we meet, He them to him with amorous smiles allures, And grins, smacks, shrugs, and such an itch endures, 75 As prentises, or schoole-boyes which doe know Of some gay sport abroad, yet dare not goe.
— from The Poems of John Donne, Volume 1 (of 2) Edited from the Old Editions and Numerous Manuscripts by John Donne
And as pressing or marking with the nails is independent of love, no one can say with certainty how many different kinds of marks with the nails do actually exist.
— from The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana Translated From the Sanscrit in Seven Parts With Preface, Introduction and Concluding Remarks by Vatsyayana
For there are two distinct kinds of love, one in which the eye instructs the heart, and the other in which the heart informs and guides the eye.
— from The Laurel Bush: An Old-Fashioned Love Story by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
Some of these are different in the different kinds of matter.
— from Science for the School and Family, Part I. Natural Philosophy by Worthington Hooker
The employment of amulets involves the idea of protection against divers kinds of malicious spirits, including the demons of disease, ghosts, fairies, and evil-minded sprites, surly elves, fiends, trolls, pixies, bogies, kelpies, gnomes, goblins, witches, devils, imps, Jinn,
— from Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery by Robert Means Lawrence
Different kinds of Transaction.
— from International Law. A Treatise. Volume 1 (of 2) Peace. Second Edition by L. (Lassa) Oppenheim
It is said that for imagery, enunciation, intonation and a deep knowledge of the human heart, Mr. Maffett stood without a peer.
— from Publications of the Mississippi Historical Society, Volume 02 (of 14), 1899 by Mississippi Historical Society
Of course the Shawanoe could not know that one of the horses carried a woman instead of a man, nor, with all the woodcraft of the American Indian, could he determine within an hour or two the time when the animals had passed along the trail, but he did know of a verity that the passage had taken place since the sun went down on the night before.
— from Blazing Arrow: A Tale of the Frontier by Edward Sylvester Ellis
He would be a very bad kind to tackle when the devil that smiles through his black eyes wakes up; and I think he'd stand by the man who played him fair through the damnedest kind of luck."
— from The League of the Leopard by Harold Bindloss
Is there anything more mysterious than one of you children?" "Oh, but that's a different kind of mysterious: we don't pretend to be mysterious: you do!"
— from The Doctor's Christmas Eve by James Lane Allen
Yes; I did knock old Van Heldre down.”
— from The Haute Noblesse: A Novel by George Manville Fenn
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