Which words of the Prophet together with my cousin’s discourse (things of high and rare delight to my young nature) took in me so deep an impression, that I constantly resolved, if ever I were preferred to the University, where better time and more convenient place might be ministered for their studies, would by God’s assistance prosecute that knowledge and kind of literature, the doors of which whereof (after a sort) were so happily opened before me.”
— from The Boy's Hakluyt: English Voyages of Adventure and Discovery by Edwin M. (Edwin Monroe) Bacon
"Knows all kinds of little tricks.
— from Alarm Clock by Everett B. Cole
He akua ia , he is a god. Kapa , a kind of large sheet in which the chiefs dressed themselves, was made of the soaked and beaten bark of several shrubs, such as the wauke, olona, hau, oloa.
— from Northern California, Oregon, and the Sandwich Islands by Charles Nordhoff
I do not know any kind of locomotion, excepting the Chinese mule palanquin, more uncomfortable than the 286 tarantass, and yet, the jolting apart, I was delighted the first time I found myself mounted on this vehicle.
— from From Paris to Pekin over Siberian Snows A Narrative of a Journey by Sledge over the Snows of European Russia and Siberia, by Caravan Through Mongolia, Across the Gobi Desert and the Great Wall, and by Mule Palanquin Through China to Pekin by Victor Meignan
The kirimon, a kind of long, open dressing gown, is worn by every one, men and women alike.
— from The War in the East: Japan, China, and Corea by Trumbull White
Had I not known another kind of love?
— from Hammer and Anvil: A Novel by Friedrich Spielhagen
In line 2 note izafat dropped after silent he , Kam az Khude , «one less than yourself.
— from The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam by Omar Khayyam
Literature, too, portrays an equally absorbing though better adjusted desire to know all kinds of life.
— from Democracy and Social Ethics by Jane Addams
The names of those recruited for, or who intended to join, other organizations, are as follows, viz.: (1) Beckendorf, Besecke, Detert, Gropel, Mahle, Mann, Metz, J. J. Mueller, Schaefer, Simon, and Temme, were to have belonged to the company projected by Messrs. Klinkenfus, Knauft, and Krueger, of Lower Town, St. Paul.
— from History of Company E of the Sixth Minnesota Regiment of Volunteer Infantry by Charles J. Stees
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