It is obvious, too, that the knowledge of Latin not only leads to a more exact and effective use of our own language, but that it is of vital importance and of great practical value to any one preparing for a literary or professional career.
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

I should tell Plato that it is a nation wherein there is no manner of traffic, no knowledge of letters, no science of numbers, no name of magistrate or political superiority; no use of service, riches or poverty, no contracts, no successions, no dividends, no properties, no employments, but those of leisure, no respect of kindred, but common, no clothing, no agriculture, no metal, no use of corn or wine; the very words that signify lying, treachery, dissimulation, avarice, envy, detraction, pardon, never heard of.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

Then the other one went to swelling around and blowing again—the first one—the one they called Bob; next, the Child of Calamity chipped in again, bigger than ever; then they both got at it at the same time, swelling round and round each other and punching their fists most into each other's faces, and whooping and jawing like Injuns; then Bob called the Child names, and the Child called him names back again: next, Bob called him a heap rougher names and the Child come back at him with the very worst kind of language; next, Bob knocked the Child's hat off, and the Child picked it up and kicked Bob's ribbony hat about six foot; Bob went and got it and said never mind, this warn't going to be the last of this thing, because he was a man that never forgot and never forgive, and so the Child better look out, for there was a time a-coming, just as sure as he was a living man, that he would have to answer to him with the best blood in his body.
— from Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain

But indeed there was no kind of language, no kind of ideas which I really liked, except these.
— from Swann's Way by Marcel Proust

He’s kind of like Nina Harling; you remember how hard she used to take little things?
— from My Antonia by Willa Cather

Some of them kinds of loafers never has a cent in the world, nor a chaw of tobacco of their own.
— from Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

Now she was crouching in the corner trying to extract a circular note from a kind of linen nose-bag which hung in chaste concealment round her neck.
— from A Room with a View by E. M. (Edward Morgan) Forster

"I know one learns names," said Lucy; "but is it real?"
— from Little Lucy's Wonderful Globe by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge

Gentlemen, let us keep our language noble: for we still have heroes to commemorate![1]
— from On the Art of Writing Lectures delivered in the University of Cambridge 1913-1914 by Arthur Quiller-Couch

They therefore, really limit the life they speak of to a certain kind of life; not that they have the right to consider these two kinds of life (life 1024 in general, and rational life) as being ranked alike, as both members of a single division would be, but another kind of distinction might be established between them, such as when we say that one thing is prior, and the other posterior.
— from Plotinos: Complete Works, v. 4 In Chronological Order, Grouped in Four Periods by Plotinus

No, it does not sound probable; but anyhow I mean to find out—if we are going along to-day to thank the old woman for her kindness of last night.
— from Donald Ross of Heimra (Volume 1 of 3) by William Black

TAYLOR: Did these measures result in the unnecessary killing of large numbers of the civilian population?
— from Trial of the Major War Criminals Before the International Military Tribunal, Nuremburg, 14 November 1945-1 October 1946, Volume 4 by Various

I would by contraries Execute all things; for no kind of traffic Would I admit; no name of magistrate ; Letters should not be known: riches , poverty , And use of service , none: contract, succession ; Bourn, bound of land, tilth, vineyard, none; No use of metal, corn or wine or oil; No occupation; all men idle, all; And women too; but innocent and pure: No Sovereignty:”— is but an echo of the following in Florio’s translation of Montaigne:— —“It is a nation, would I answer Plato, that hath no kind of traffic , no knowledge of letters, no intelligence of numbers, no name of magistrate , nor of politic superiority; no use of service , of riches , or of poverty ; no contracts , no successions ; no occupation, but idle, no respect of kindred but common; no apparel, but natural; no manuring of lands, no use of wine, corn, or metal,” etc.
— from A Walk from London to Fulham by Thomas Crofton Croker

VII.—WHEREIN THE ISLES OF SONDUR AND CONDUR ARE SPOKEN OF; AND THE KINGDOM OF LOCAC NOTES.—1.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 2 by Rustichello of Pisa

Consequently the ancient Romans had built another wall of short length outside of it and encircling it, not for the sake of safety (for it was neither strengthened with towers, nor indeed was there any battlement built upon it, nor any other means by which it would have been possible to repulse an enemy's assault upon the fortifications), but in order to provide for an unseemly kind of luxury, namely, that they might confine and keep there lions and other wild animals.
— from Procopius History of the Wars, Books V. and VI. by Procopius

From the scientific point of view it is seen that there is but one universal Kingdom of Life, Nature.
— from Communism and Christianism Analyzed and Contrasted from the Marxian and Darwinian Points of View by William Montgomery Brown

Luxembourg 37 km (on Moselle River) (2008) Madagascar 600 km note: 432 km navigable (2008) Malawi 700 km (on Lake Nyasa (Lake Malawi) and Shire River) (2008)
— from The 2009 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency