However, he ended by the no means flattering remark that if she had any sense she would sell it, as everybody knew she was too poor to wear it.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

Twenty bellows blew upon the melting-pots, and they blew blasts of every kind, some fierce to help him when he had need of them, and others less strong as Vulcan willed it in the course of his work.
— from The Iliad by Homer

Al-kynd , adj. of every kind, S3.
— from A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 to 1580 by A. L. (Anthony Lawson) Mayhew

Most of the arguments which have convinced me that all the existing species of the same group are descended from a single progenitor, apply with equal force to the earliest known species.
— from The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, 6th Edition by Charles Darwin

Though midnight's shade was dense and dark, With skill that swerved not from the mark Their bows the sons of Raghu drew, And each keen shaft a chieftain slew.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

She could not approach these woods, without experiencing keener sense of her danger.
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

Bagheera, who had eyes and ears everywhere, knew something of this, and once or twice he told Mowgli in so many words that Shere Khan would kill him some day.
— from The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling

The signs of The Swan , The Pheasant , and The Peacock arose in the days of knight-errantry, when every knight selected one of these birds as an emblem of chivalry, and exerted a pride in the association.
— from Names: and Their Meaning; A Book for the Curious by Leopold Wagner

’Amrḳan, 262 ’Anâb, 44 , 47 ’Ânah, 85 , 87 , 88 , 89 , 113 ; the road to, 92-93 ; the castle and minaret, 94-96 ; history, 96- 98 Anatho (’Anah), 92 , 109 , 111 , 114 Andaval, village of, 356 Anderîn, barracks at, 121 note 2 Annouca, castle of, 68 Anthemusia, 22 Anti Taurus, 327 Antioch Gate, Aleppo, 11 , 15 Antioch on the Orontes, 10 Anu and Adad, temple of, 223 Apamea (Strabo), 204 Arabissus, 339 note 1 Ararat, mountain of, 289 Araxes, the (the Khâbûr), 73 Arba’, village of, 303 note 1 Arba’în, shrine of the, Tekrît, 217 Arbela, 221 , 228 Arca, see Arga Arga, 338 , 339 note 1-40 Argæus, Mount, 344 , 345 , 353-54 , 355 Argæus the Lesser, 356 Arghana, the monastery of the Virgin, 328 and note 1 Arghana Ma’den, Khân of, 328 note 1 , 329 , 330 note 1 Ariarathia, 344 note 1 Arîmeh, village of, 20 Ark of Noah, 291-95 Arnâs, 317-18 Arslân Tepeh, mound of, 336 , 337 Artemis, Temple of (Darius), 111 ’Ashiḳ, the, Sâmarrâ, 235 and note 4-39 , 242 Asia Minor, tower tombs, 37 {362} Asikha, 111 , 112 ’Asîleh, 130 , 132 Asshur, mound of, 221 , 222 ; temple of, 222-24 , 229 Assyrian temples, construction, 223 Atargatis, pool of, 21-22 ’Atâ’ut, pitch well at, 106 Atesh Gah of Jur, 246 note 2 Awânâ, see Wâneh Aywân Kisrâ, the, 181 note 3 Azakh, 302-3 Azbuzu, 336 ’Azîzîyeh, 3 39 note 1 , 344 and note 1 , 345 note 2 Bâ’adrî, village of, 269-70 , 273 ; ’Alî Beg, 273-74 ; Sa’îd Beg, 274 , 280 ; the summer festival, 280 ; underground village near, 299 note 1 Bâ’ashikâ, 265 Bâ Dibbeh, 309 Bâ Sebrîna, village of, 303 and note 1-4 ; monasteries of, 304-5 ; construction in, 315 Bâb, 17 , 18 and note 3 Bâb el Ḥadîd, Aleppo, 15 Bâb el Maḳâm, Aleppo, 14 Bâb el Wuṣṭânî, 191 Bâb eṭ Ṭilism, Baghdâd, 190 Bâb Kinnesrîn, the, Aleppo, 11 Bâbil, mound of, 168 , 173 Babylon, 22 , 164 ; Palace of Nebuchadnezzar, work of excavation, 168-71 ; temple of Ishtar and the Ishtar Gate, 171 ; the Via Sacra, 171-72 ; temple of Marduk, 172 ; the theatre, 172-73 ; mound of Bâbil, 173 ; construction in, 223 Baghdâd, 3 , 32 , 46 , 54 ; the railway, 34 , 356 ; the road to, 94 , 160 , 167 ; tomb of the Sitt Zobeideh, 100 ; justice in, stories of Rejef Pasha, 175-77 ; story of the cannon, 183 , 192-93 ; entry by the Ḥilleh road, 184 ; the British Residency, 184 ; the irrigation system, 185 ; the new régime in, 185-87 ; the Jews and military service, 187 ; Manṣûr’s Round City, 187 and note 1-88 ; the Kâẓimein, 188-90 , 198 ; tomb of Sheikh Ma’rûf, 189-90 ; Bâb eṭ Ṭilism, 190-91 ; traces of the ancient city, 191 ; the Bâb el Wuṣṭânî, 191 ; Mustanṣirîyeh College, 191-92 ; the Khâṣakî Jâmi’, 192 ; Khân Orthma, 192 ; the arsenal, 193-94 ; mosque and tomb of ’Abdu’l Ḳâdir, 195 ; a visit to the Naḳîb, 195-96 ; the tekîyeh for pilgrims, 195-96 ; Catholics in, 197 ; road to Kerkûk, 206 ; mosque of Manṣûr, 235 note 2 ; stories, 354 Baghdâdî, 102 , 114 Baghût, 202 Bahurasîr, 181 and note 2 Baisampse, 38 note 4 Balad, village of, 205 Balîjah, mound of, 88 Bâlis, 18 , 24 note 2 Bambyce, 22 Bar Hebræus, tomb of, 266 Barâd, tower tombs of, 38 note 2 Barbalissos, 24 note 2 Bardawî, mound of, the fortress, 136-37 Bârtallâ, 265 , 267 Basilia, 110 , 111 , 112 Baṣrah, 95 , 160 , 163 Bathnæ, 18 Bathnæ in Osrhœne, 23 Baviân, valley of, 271-72 ; rock carvings and rock cut chambers, 272 note 1 , 275 Bazaar Euren, 345 note 1 Beilân Pass, 334 Beit el Khalîfah, Sâmarrâ, 237 , 240 and note 1-42 Belesys, palace of, 18 Belias River, the, 54 Belîkh, the, 54 , 61 Belisibiblada, 111 , 113 Belḳâ, the, 303 Bergland Tulaba (Kiepert), 61 and note 1 Berœa, 10 ; acropolis of, 11 Bersiba (Munbayah), 44 , 47 Berwân, island of, 101 Bethauna, 111 , 114 Bêtmanîn, 293 note 1 Bey Punar, 343 and note 1 Beyrout, 4 ; vilayet of, 7 Bezabde, 296 note 1 Billânî, graves of, 52 Bîmâristân of El Malik eẓ Ẓâher, Aleppo, 14 Birejik, bridge at, 22-23 ; tower tombs, 37 ; distances from, 109 Birs Nimrûd, 173 Bisheh, 202 Biunan, 111 , 112 Bombay, justice in, 95 Bonakhe, 111 , 114 Bor, 356 Boran Dereh Keui, 343 note 1 , 344 British Museum, Assyrian reliefs, 71 ; the Black Obelisk, 223 Bulgurlû, 356 Buseirah, 111 , 112 ; excavations at, 73-75 ; the ruined church,
— from Amurath to Amurath by Gertrude Lowthian Bell

It's a good scheme to tie the bag, a side to each knee, so you can keep the mouth open without using your hands.
— from Buffalo Roost A Story of a Young Men's Christian Association Boys' Department by Frank H. (Frank Howbert) Cheley

This was the constant companionship of a sister whose nature enabled her to find its complete universe in the only world that she had ever known: she walking ever broad-minded through the narrowness of her little town; remaining white though often threading its soiling ways; and from every life which touched hers, however crippled and confined, extracting its significance instead of its insignificance, shy harmonies instead of the easy discords which can so palpably be struck by any passing hand.
— from The Mettle of the Pasture by James Lane Allen

And Elsa knew she knew.
— from Moth and Rust; Together with Geoffrey's Wife and The Pitfall by Mary Cholmondeley

Let us not be too entirely mechanical, Baconian, and experimental only; let us let the soul hope and dream and float on these oceans of accumulated facts, and feel still greater aspiration than it has ever known since first a flint was chipped before the glaciers.
— from Field and Hedgerow: Being the Last Essays of Richard Jefferies by Richard Jefferies