Caesar ruled as king of Rome for five years and a half, not half as long as Alexander: in the intervals of seven great campaigns, which allowed him to stay not more than fifteen months altogether in the capital of his empire, he regulated the destinies of the world for the present and the future .
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce

A kind of rhythmic fervour fell on all of us; we gabbled and swayed faster and faster, repeating this amazing Law.
— from The Island of Doctor Moreau by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

This is to enable each one to commence the New Year with a kind of reserve fund for a rainy day, when they would have this money to fall back upon.
— from Two Years in the Forbidden City by Princess Der Ling

To preserve a kind of reputation for fairness it has elected, now and again, a man of more or less advanced opinions; but the majority has always remained much the same, the "liberal" members never being more than ten or twelve in number.
— from Émile Zola, Novelist and Reformer: An Account of His Life & Work by Ernest Alfred Vizetelly

[27] According to Napoleon's instructions, his brothers were to prevent the empress and the King of Rome from falling into the hands of the enemy.
— from Queen Hortense: A Life Picture of the Napoleonic Era by L. (Luise) Mühlbach

Hence Christ is called King of righteousness first; 'first being by interpretation King of righteousness, and after that also King of Salem, which is, King of peace' (Heb 7:1,2).
— from Works of John Bunyan — Complete by John Bunyan

Ah, it is only the irrational that now seems to be 'real,' i.e. really doing something; and to bring this kind of reality forward for the elucidation of history is reckoned as true 'historical culture.'
— from On the Future of our Educational Institutions; Homer and Classical Philology Complete Works, Volume Three by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

They say you may meet her there, after sunset, flying along the path among the trees, with her hair half down, and a knot of ribbon fluttering from it, and parted lips, and terror in her eyes.
— from Melchior's Dream and Other Tales by Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing

She felt that she was dependent upon the kindness of richer friends for those little delicacies which she required to support her mother’s sinking frame; and never was heart more sensitively grateful than this poor girl’s when she received some unexpected trifle of bounty from the table of her indulgent mistress.
— from The History of Margaret Catchpole, a Suffolk Girl by Richard Cobbold

I don't want my gum boots, nor my Burberry, British warm or rug, as you know I have my Thresher and Glenny and a fleece lining, also a fur coat, a mackintosh cape, and a pair of thigh gum boots, all the last three presents from the King, or rather from Father as a taxpayer.
— from Letters from France by Isaac Alexander Mack