In addressing members of higher castes, the Tandans call themselves Kuzhiyan, or dwellers in pits.
— from Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 7 of 7 by Edgar Thurston

And 'tis indeed our Saviour's oracle, This kind of devil is not cast out but by fasting and prayer, which makes the fathers so immoderate in commendation of fasting.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Company a sole comfort, and an only remedy to all kind of discontent, is their sole misery and cause of perdition.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Maybe it's an attack of spring fever, or staying up too late at Verg Gunch's, or maybe it's just the winter's work piling up, but I've felt kind of down in the mouth all day long.
— from Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis

Hitherto there had been a kind of desperation in her hardihood; now she was evidently relieved.
— from The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë

What is the use of a violent kind of delightfulness if there is no pleasure in not getting tired of it.
— from Tender Buttons Objects—Food—Rooms by Gertrude Stein

It was easy enough to cross a desert in the night while we were asleep; and it was pleasant to reflect, in the morning, that we in actual person had encountered an absolute desert and could always speak knowingly of deserts in presence of the ignorant thenceforward.
— from Roughing It by Mark Twain

This kind of drum is called "going" because it drives the watch during the operation of winding, which is performed by rotating [Pg 416] the drum arbor to which the inner end of the spring is attached.
— from How it Works Dealing in simple language with steam, electricity, light, heat, sound, hydraulics, optics, etc., and with their applications to apparatus in common use by Archibald Williams

That kind of distinction is founded on the different resemblances, which the same simple idea may have to several different ideas.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

as a kind of double introduction, a frontispiece and vignette title-page to the whole collection, the first book proper only two which are not regarded as David's.
— from The Life of David: As Reflected in His Psalms by Alexander Maclaren

" "This kind of discussion is unfruitful, Vincy," said Mr. Bulstrode, who, finishing his sandwich, had thrown himself back in his chair, and shaded his eyes as if weary.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

A kind of divine inspiration, or sacred fire affecting censorious critics of this dictionary.
— from The Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce

Killed, or dead, is described by closed eyes and a sudden fall of the head on the talker’s chest; and so on, an easily understood gesture, with a few Indian words, being sufficient to tell a long story very clearly.
— from First Across the Continent The Story of the Exploring Expedition of Lewis and Clark in 1804-5-6 by Noah Brooks

In Africa, for example, the chieftainship or kingship often descends in the female line, but it is men, not women, who inherit it.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (Third Edition, Vol. 06 of 12) by James George Frazer

All this has been removed to such an extent as to expose the kistvaen or dolmen in its centre.
— from Rude Stone Monuments in All Countries: Their Age and Uses by James Fergusson

and if God had not wonderfully prouided for them and their necessitie, and time had not made them more cunning and wise to seeke strange remedies for strange kindes of dangers, it had bene impossible for them euer to haue escaped: for among other deuises, wheresoeuer they found any Iland of yce of greater bignesse then the rest (as there be some of more then halfe a mile compasse about, and almost forty fadome high) they commonly coueted to recouer the same, and thereof to make a bulwarke for their defence, whereon hauing mored anker, they road vnder the lee therof for a time, being therby garded from the danger of the lesser driuing yce.
— from The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of The English Nation — Volume 12 America, Part I by Richard Hakluyt

It is to keep off disturbing influences of memory and sense, to hold the mind still, attentive, receptive, and ready.
— from Orthodoxy: Its Truths And Errors by James Freeman Clarke

Is it not, at least, inexpedient to appeal to it in the present state of society, while no kind of disability is contracted by those who profess the principles of Bishop Colenso or Herbert Spencer?
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 07, April 1868 to September, 1868 by Various