There exists in that region a kind of wild animal like a gazelle.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

‘Gentlemen,’ cried Kit, on whom a light broke suddenly, ‘Master, Mr Abel, Mr Witherden, every one of you—he did it!
— from The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens

Monsieur, the King's elder Brother, has set up for a kind of wit; and leans towards the Philosophe side.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

"I also saw fair Epicaste mother of king Oedipodes whose awful lot it was to marry her own son without suspecting it.
— from The Odyssey Rendered into English prose for the use of those who cannot read the original by Homer

You hide and you watch 'em, and you pounce upon that maid-servant—knowing what she's subject to and what a little thing will bring 'em on—in that surprising manner and with that severity that, by the Lord, she goes off and keeps off, when a life may be hanging upon that girl's words!"
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

Young Henry fixed his eyes upon his cousin, while, with steady self-complacency, he delivered this speech, and no sooner was it concluded than Henry cried out in a kind of wonder, “A little man!
— from Nature and Art by Mrs. Inchbald

While rafting, field photography, now so much used by explorers, is very difficult, as it can only be achieved at camping places unless the apparatus is carried ashore in a canoe, if the raftsmen have one; and the ease with which separated persons can lose each other along a river full of islands makes this kind of work a little uncertain, and the services of a good artist more valuable.
— from Along Alaska's Great River A Popular Account of the Travels of an Alaska Exploring Expedition along the Great Yukon River, from Its Source to Its Mouth, in the British North-West Territory, and in the Territory of Alaska by Frederick Schwatka

The creature is to all intents [144] and purposes a kind of worm; and, like many of the higher worms, it has a larva with bands of cilia.
— from Stories of the Universe: Animal Life by B. Lindsay

Does the cessation of diplomatic notes stop the political relations between different nations and governments? Is not war merely another kind of writing and language for political 122 thoughts?"
— from The Reality of War: A Companion to Clausewitz by Stewart Lygon Murray

Oh, King of Wings and Lord of Lords, who alone rulest always in eternity, and who correctest all our wanderings, giver of melody to the choir of angels, listen Thou a little to our bitter grief, and come and rule us,
— from Knights of Art: Stories of the Italian Painters by Amy Steedman

He was one o’ those fellers who can’t tire ’emselves out, an’ so just keep on workin’ as long as the law allows ’em to use daylight.
— from Friar Tuck Being the Chronicles of the Reverend John Carmichael, of Wyoming, U. S. A. by Robert Alexander Wason

King Olave was at length killed in battle against his heathen subjects ( A.D. 1030), and his memory is regarded as that of a saint.
— from Sketches of Church History, from A.D. 33 to the Reformation by James Craigie Robertson