He said he would watch out, and if they tried to come any such game on him he knowed of a place six or seven mile off to stow me in, where they might hunt till they dropped and they couldn’t find me.
— from Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

While the right of particulars to existence is their own, granted them by the free grace of heaven, their ability to enlarge our knowledge on any particular subject—their relevance or incidence in discourse—hangs on their fulfilling the requirements which that subject's dialectical nature imposes on all its expressions.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

When his son-in-law Dartie had that financial crisis, due to speculation in Oil Shares, James made himself ill worrying over it; the knell of all prosperity seemed to have sounded.
— from The Forsyte Saga, Volume I. The Man Of Property by John Galsworthy

I could not but observe that he had been peeling the lemons with his own clasp-knife, which, as became the knife of a practical settler, was about a foot long; and which he wiped, not wholly without ostentation, on the sleeve of his coat.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

The sceptical errors of this remarkably acute thinker arose principally from a defect, which was common to him with the dogmatists, namely, that he had never made a systematic review of all the different kinds of a priori synthesis performed by the understanding.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

Indicating what kind of a person she was.
— from Warren Commission (09 of 26): Hearings Vol. IX (of 15) by United States. Warren Commission

Our minister ain't no kind of a proselyter, Seems as if he didn't care how folks got to heaven so long as they got there!
— from The Story of Waitstill Baxter by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin

The mummy of King Osymandyas, All pickled snug—the brains drawn out— With costly cerements swathed about,— And "Touch me not," those words terrific, Scrawled o'er her in good hieroglyphic.
— from The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes by Thomas Moore

The geologist has discovered that the figures of serpents, griffins, flying dragons, and other fanciful embellishments of heraldry, have their prototypes in the forms of fossil species which were extinct before man was created, and hence “indicate a faint and shadowy knowledge of a previous state of organic existence.”
— from Walking by Henry David Thoreau

Then he asked about all kinds of things: how she liked the modern Babylon, where she had learned to know her friend, what kind of a person she was.
— from Boris Lensky by Ossip Schubin

Whether or not the duke was in New York or Washington or Spitzbergen, he now felt sure that Miss Lovelace knew of, and perhaps something about, Madame de Nevers.
— from The Poisoned Pen by Arthur B. (Arthur Benjamin) Reeve

Prisuner , sb. gaoler, keeper of a prison, S. Proces , sb. narrative, history, C2, HD, WA.—OF. procès ; Lat. processum .
— from A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 to 1580 by A. L. (Anthony Lawson) Mayhew

Let's call a rickshaw and see what kind of a place she has selected."
— from The Green Odyssey by Philip José Farmer