Neither gobernadorcillo nor councillors dared act in opposition to his wishes, and the alcalde of the province was careful to keep on friendly terms and leave town affairs largely to his dictation.
— from A History of the Philippines by David P. Barrows

My clothes were in tatters, my hands, face, and body covered with scratches, received from the sharp knots of fallen trees, and in climbing over piles of brush and floodwood.
— from Twelve Years a Slave Narrative of Solomon Northup, a Citizen of New-York, Kidnapped in Washington City in 1841, and Rescued in 1853, from a Cotton Plantation near the Red River in Louisiana by Solomon Northup

And this he attempts to accomplish by denying that there is any knowledge of future things, and maintains with all his might that there is no such knowledge either in God or man, and that there is no prediction of events.
— from The City of God, Volume I by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

How evil he was to-night; possessed by ill-humour at being detained so long from her; irritated by the mention of some name, because he thought it belonged to a more successful lover; now ill-tempered because he had been unable to cope, with a light heart, against one who was trying, by gay and careless speeches, to make the evening pass pleasantly away,—the kind old friend to all parties, whose manner by this time might be well known to Mr. Thornton, who had been acquainted with him for many years.
— from North and South by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

" Philippe le Bel went still further, for, in 1287, he invited "all those who possess temporal authority in the kingdom of France to appoint, for the purpose of exercising civil jurisdiction, a bailiff, a provost, and some serjeants, who were to be laymen, and not ecclesiastics, and if there should be ecclesiastics in the said offices, to remove them."
— from Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period by P. L. Jacob

As he read on it turned out to be all about grass and barley and hay—in short, all the kinds of fodder that Asses are fond of.
— from Aesop's Fables; a new translation by Aesop

The divine law does not allow all kinds of food to all men, but takes into account what is possible to human nature and allows us to eat most animals, as I have said.
— from The Works of the Emperor Julian, Vol. 1 by Emperor of Rome Julian

What shall I say of the numberless kinds of food to alleviate hunger, and the variety of seasonings to stimulate appetite which are scattered everywhere by nature, and for which we are not indebted to the art of cookery?
— from The City of God, Volume II by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

Every kind of finer tendon and ligament that is in the nature of poultry to possess is developed in these specimens in the singular form of guitar-strings.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

The concordat afterwards, in the sixteenth century, gave to the kings of France the absolute right of presenting to all the great, or what are called the consistorial, benefices of the Gallican church.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

They can do all kinds of foolish things and nobody ever says a word, but the minute we
— from Mrs. Radigan: Her Biography, with that of Miss Pearl Veal, and the Memoirs of J. Madison Mudison by Nelson Lloyd

Only the Arabs would call it a knowledge of financial trickery and an experience of political intrigue, and the power given by hoards of money not only of their own but of other peoples.
— from The New Jerusalem by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

He's short and swack o' body, red of hair and face, wears a kilt o' Farquharson tartan, and winna' say where he comes frae.
— from The Black Colonel by James Milne

Page 69 TARTS Special recipes for every kind of fruit tart are not given, as the same rules apply to all.
— from Dr. Allinson's cookery book Comprising many valuable vegetarian recipes by T. R. (Thomas Richard) Allinson

"Well," said Ben lightly, "I've got a little business in that there house, shipmate, and if so be as I finds out anything about what kind of folks they are, I'll let you know."
— from The Boy Aviators' Treasure Quest; Or, The Golden Galleon by John Henry Goldfrap

"She has a queer odd kind of fascination too, and any man must admire a woman so clever and capable and altogether fine.
— from The Sisters-In-Law: A Novel of Our Time by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton

(Baeyer does not appear, as recently stated by Meisenheimer [ 1907 , p. 8], Wohl [ 1907, 2 ], and Buchner and Meisenheimer [ 1909 ] to have suggested that lactic acid was an intermediate product in alcoholic fermentation, but rather to have represented independently the course of the two different kinds of fermentation, the alcoholic and the lactic.)
— from Alcoholic Fermentation Second Edition, 1914 by Arthur Harden

" I killed only five thousand , as I told you I would; the others died of fright ."
— from In Tune with the Infinite; or, Fullness of Peace, Power, and Plenty by Ralph Waldo Trine