There is ways to keep off some kinds of bad luck, but this wasn’t one of them kind; so I never tried to do anything, but just poked along low-spirited and on the watch-out.
— from Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

The Cid becomes the knight of Sancho, King of Castile.
— from The History of Chivalry; Or, Knighthood and Its Times, Volume 2 (of 2) by Charles Mills

I kno ov sevral kinds ov kuriosity, but thare iz one kind which prompts us tew stick our noze into things just for the purpose ov smelling.
— from The Complete Works of Josh Billings by Josh Billings

In England pottery of every sort, and in all countries good pottery, must be baked or burnt in a kiln of some kind or other.
— from Knowledge is Power: A View of the Productive Forces of Modern Society and the Results of Labor, Capital and Skill. by Charles Knight

Hinnuláre, a kind of squeaking Kite or Buzzard.
— from Queen Anna's New World of Words; or, Dictionarie of the Italian and English Tongues by John Florio

“It must make you very, very happy, sir,” she kept on, speaking kind of low and gentle, but not coming as close as he wanted her, “to go about the world doing such generous-hearted good deeds!
— from Santa Fé's Partner Being Some Memorials of Events in a New-Mexican Track-end Town by Thomas A. (Thomas Allibone) Janvier

If i had a boy now who had enny simptoms ov enny kind ov lawless, unfixed, and flux noshuns, and who didn’t seem tew kare whether he ever amounted tew enny thing or not, and who couldn’t tell whare he waz last night till half past two this Morning, and who couldn’t recognize hiz own washer-woman, and who wanted tew go into bizzness fur himself, at 16 years old, with a kapital ov two bottles ov Phalon’s extrakt, and a mustash, that resembled the mold on a pound ov limeberger cheese, I would say confidenshally tu him: “ Son , i hav ben tew blame thus far in frameing yure timber, but yu kan bet them pattent leather boots yu hav got on, and witch haint bin paid for yet, that from now hereafter yu hav got tew begin agin, and weed out yure gardin sass, and sucker yure grape vine, and plough up yure wild oats, and underdrain yure swamp land, and bush hook yure briar patch and fix yure farm for a krop ov sum kind ov grain that will not disgrace both son and daddy, when it iz brought tew market.”
— from The Complete Works of Josh Billings by Josh Billings

Not much wiser would he be, who, when he heard a knock of some kind or other, asserted or believed that it came from the angel of night—the well-known Nox.
— from Ancient Faiths And Modern A Dissertation upon Worships, Legends and Divinities in Central and Western Asia, Europe, and Elsewhere, Before the Christian Era. Showing Their Relations to Religious Customs as They Now Exist. by Thomas Inman

There is ways to keep off some kinds of bad luck, but this wasn't one of them kind; so I never tried to do anything, but just poked along low-spirited and on the watch-out.
— from Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Chapters 01 to 05 by Mark Twain