In doing this, I underwent a kind of rough usage, ill befitting the wounds that my mind had sustained.
— from Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

2 There are different kinds of right understanding; [2] some have right understanding in a certain order of things, and not in others, where they go astray.
— from Pascal's Pensées by Blaise Pascal

As to industrial conditions, however, Babbitt had thought a great deal, and his opinions may be coordinated as follows: “A good labor union is of value because it keeps out radical unions, which would destroy property.
— from Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis

But eloquent as he might be, the eloquence of the grandson of Henry IV. did not touch those hearts of stone; not one man stirred, so Monsieur de Beaufort was obliged to be satisfied with calling them all kinds of rascals underneath the sun.
— from Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas

When he knew that he and his comrades had failed to do anything in successful ways that might bring the little pangs of a kind of remorse upon the officer, the youth allowed the rage of the baffled to possess him.
— from The Red Badge of Courage: An Episode of the American Civil War by Stephen Crane

What mulct, what penance soever is enjoined, they dare not but do it, tumble with St. Francis in the mire amongst hogs, if they be appointed, go woolward, whip themselves, build hospitals, abbeys, &c., go to the East or West Indies, kill a king, or run upon a sword point: they perform all, without any muttering or hesitation, believe all.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

I was tied up in a knot, or rolled up into a ball.
— from Lost in the Fog by James De Mille

I says, an' with that he kind o' reddened up agin.
— from David Harum A Story of American Life by Edward Noyes Westcott

“There is, no doubt, a great deal of the hardest kind of rock under it, which is, in one or two respects, unfortunate.
— from The Greater Power by Harold Bindloss

They were generally covered with forest grass, in tufts, and a coarse kind of rushes, under banksias and cypresses.
— from Two Expeditions into the Interior of Southern Australia — Complete by Charles Sturt

That made me feel better and I kind of raised up on my hands and stopped crying, but when I looked I was scared worse than ever.
— from Swatty: A Story of Real Boys by Ellis Parker Butler

299.jpg a Small Kelek, or Raft, Upon the Tigris At Baghdad.
— from History of Egypt, Chaldæa, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria A Linked Index to the Project Gutenberg Editions by G. (Gaston) Maspero

I have thought it would not be amiss to trust to Mr. Short the sentiments in the ciphered part of the letter, leaving him to govern himself by circumstances, whether to let them leak out at all or not, and whether so as that it may be known or remain unknown that they come from us.
— from Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 3 by Thomas Jefferson

The transforming gospel which religion brings is indispensable to a building of the kingdom of righteousness upon the earth.
— from Christianity and Progress by Harry Emerson Fosdick

If we will descend to latter times, we shall find many the like examples of such kind, or rather unkind, acceptance.
— from Lectures on Bible Revision by Samuel Newth

“Maybe,” said Lauderdale, in his oracular way, “it’s an uncanny kind of relationship upon the whole; but I would not be the one to answer for it, especially if it’s him
— from A Son of the Soil by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant