I tell you Adelaide, the time is coming when every kind of school except kindergarten will be self-supporting.
— from The Second Generation by David Graham Phillips

They reveal a firm conviction that, when death takes place, a something termed a soul or spirit leaves the body and continues to exist in Sheol for a period of indefinite duration, even though there is no proof of any belief in absolute immortality; that such spirits can return to earth to possess and inspire the living; that they are, in appearance and in disposition, likenesses of the men to whom they belonged, but that, as spirits, they have larger powers and are freer from physical limitations; that they thus form a group among a number of kinds of spiritual existences known as Elohim, of whom Jahveh, the national God of Israel, is one; that, consistently with this view, Jahveh was conceived as a sort of spirit, human in aspect and in senses, and with many human passions,
— from Essays Upon Some Controverted Questions by Thomas Henry Huxley

This proves that the accusation against Catholics of putting the Blessed Virgin and the saints, as objects of worship, in the place of God, is a false accusation, so well known or so easily known to be false, that no one of ordinary intelligence can honestly make it.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 07, April 1868 to September, 1868 by Various

By reference to a Garden Journal (every man should keep one), we find that we planted in 1840, sixteen kinds of peas; seventeen kinds of beans; seven kinds of corn; six kinds of squash; eight kinds of cabbage; seven kinds of lettuce; eight sorts of cucumber, and seven of turnips— seventy-six varieties of only eight vegetables !
— from Pleasant Talk About Fruits, Flowers and Farming by Henry Ward Beecher

“She eats no other kind of sweets; everybody knows it.
— from Camille (La Dame aux Camilias) by Alexandre Dumas

King Olas Scobcong entreated king Edred, who died in 91{} to send him missionaries to preach the gospel in his country.
— from The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Other Principal Saints. January, February, March by Alban Butler

Cauaríccie, a kind of snailes euer keeping in holes and sticking together in clusters.
— from Queen Anna's New World of Words; or, Dictionarie of the Italian and English Tongues by John Florio

Except you've somehow managed to get so far ahead of any kind of science Earth knows that, even today, your effects can only be explained as 'magic' or 'miracle.'" "How could we get that far ahead of you?"
— from Pagan Passions by Randall Garrett

The ancient Gaels drank from shells; and hence such phrases as “chief of shells,” “hall of shells,” “king of shells,” etc. (king of hospitality).
— from Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 3 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer