In this way it can be understood why in the whole faculty of reason it is the practical reason only that can help us to pass beyond the world of sense and give us knowledge of a supersensible order and connection, which, however, for this very reason cannot be extended further than is necessary for pure practical purposes.
— from The Critique of Practical Reason by Immanuel Kant

Several kinds of apparatus, some of them very ingenious in their construction, have been proposed for preparing coffee, but they are all made upon the principle of extracting only the aromatic flavour, while Professor Donovan's suggestions not only enable us to accomplish that desirable object, but superadd the less obvious but equally essential matter of extracting and making our own all the medicinal virtues.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

In the house of Mynheer Van Guldensack I made myself so pleasant to high and low, that I came to be quite intimate there: and got the knowledge of a state secret or two, which surprised and pleased my captain very much.
— from Barry Lyndon by William Makepeace Thackeray

If a corpse be kept over a Sunday another death will occur before the week is out; should a big bumble-bee enter the window, a guest may be expected; and when the woodpecker, commonly called the yaffle, laughs, they say the rain is coming.
— from English Villages by P. H. (Peter Hampson) Ditchfield

Ever since she got out of college she's been too rambunctious to live with—doesn't know what she wants—well, I know what she wants!—all she wants is to marry a millionaire, and live in Europe, and hold some preacher's hand, and simultaneously at the same time stay right here in Zenith and be some blooming kind of a socialist agitator or boss charity-worker or some damn thing!
— from Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis

Eat a little of this quince-pie; it is very proper and convenient for the shutting up of the orifice of the ventricle of the stomach, because of a kind of astringent stypticity which is in that sort of fruit, and is helpful to the first concoction.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

An ancient king of Ayodhyá said by some to have been Prithu's father.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

2-3: An anchorite; one who pursues a sadhana or path of spiritual discipline. 2-4: When I discovered by these words that Mother had possessed secret knowledge of a short life, I understood for the first time why she had been insistent on hastening the plans for Ananta's marriage.
— from Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda

But if it had, we would learn it too late to make the knowledge of any service.
— from Capturing a Locomotive: A History of Secret Service in the Late War. by William Pittenger

Glue the [158] clock together, using the blunt end of a lead-pencil, or any kind of a stick, to assist in holding the sides and tops together until the glue is perfectly dry.
— from Indoor and Outdoor Recreations for Girls by Lina Beard

"Kind of a sharp craft that," he observed, watching' Mandy cross the road.
— from Cap'n Abe, Storekeeper: A Story of Cape Cod by James A. Cooper

She waited until King prepared some kind of a shelter, and then went wordlessly to it; she felt fir-boughs under her aching body and was, in pure animal fashion, conscious of blanket and canvas over her and of a grateful warmth.
— from The Everlasting Whisper by Jackson Gregory

I cannot describe the character nor the color in the street nor the kind of a stone.
— from Geography and Plays by Gertrude Stein

"Do you know of any secret passage?" asked the general in an insinuating tone.
— from A Voyage with Captain Dynamite by Charles Edward Rich

An experiment of this kind on a small scale was witnessed in 1909 in an English village in Buckinghamshire.
— from Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 Sex in Relation to Society by Havelock Ellis

A kindness or a slight puts a man under one flag or the other, and he marches with it to the end of the campaign.
— from Henry Esmond; The English Humourists; The Four Georges by William Makepeace Thackeray

But the most part of Hawthorn Village and the country to the north of it knew otherwise and said otherwise [138] with unction and lifted looks.
— from The Witch by Mary Johnston