Sometimes a KNUCKLE-DUSTER has knobs or points projecting, so as to mutilate and disfigure the person struck.
— from The Slang Dictionary: Etymological, Historical and Andecdotal by John Camden Hotten

[CAS. 678] But if we should grant (to Ephorus) that this oblique line is the direction of the isthmus, most of these places, Cappadocia in particular, would be included, and (the kingdom of) Pontus, properly so called, which is a part of Cappadocia on the Euxine; so that if we were to admit the Chalybes to be a part of the peninsula, with more reason we ought to admit the Cataonians, the two nations of Cappadocians, and the Lycaonians, whom even he himself has omitted.
— from The Geography of Strabo, Volume 3 (of 3) Literally Translated, with Notes by Strabo

Against the Change of Venue bill - Baxter, Bohnett, Butler, Callan, Cogswell, Dean, Gerdes, Gillis, Kehoe, Otis, Polsley, Preston, Sackett, Whitney, and Young - 15.
— from Story of the Session of the California Legislature of 1909 by Franklin Hichborn

The first thing that I can recollect is a kind of picture, preserved, so to speak, in my head.
— from For Faith and Freedom by Walter Besant

For ages a chief rabbi and judge had ruled all the communities; the person holding the office had possessed a kind of princely power, similar to that formerly exercised by the princes of the exile in Babylon.
— from History of the Jews, Vol. 4 (of 6) by Heinrich Graetz

Besides the French, there were present at this meeting the Emperor Alexander, the King of Prussia, Prince Schwartzenberg, M. Nesselrode, M. Pozzo-di-Borgo, and Prince Liechtenstein.
— from Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte — Volume 12 by Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne

As long as you don't fall away from that thought you have your feet planted on solid ground—you can face things squarely—" "You preach a kind of political pragmatism," she said as he paused.
— from One Man in His Time by Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow

The book bears somewhat the same relation to my [Pg 49] little book on Climbing Plants , which Cross-Fertilisation did to the Fertilisation of Orchids ; for in accordance with the principle of evolution it was impossible to account for climbing plants having been developed in so many widely different groups unless all kinds of plants possess some slight power of movement of an analogous kind.
— from Charles Darwin: His Life Told in an Autobiographical Chapter, and in a Selected Series of His Published Letters by Charles Darwin

He figured conspicuously as a pettifogger before the justice of the peace, but regarding it merely as a kind of preliminary practice, seldom made any charge for his services.
— from Abraham Lincoln: The True Story of a Great Life, Volume 1 (of 2) by William Henry Herndon

After church a parade, here the Emperor and the King of Prussia played soldiers for an hour and a half.
— from Charles Philip Yorke, Fourth Earl of Hardwicke, Vice-Admiral R.N. — a Memoir by Biddulph, Elizabeth Philippa, Baroness