‘You see, my good woman,’ said Mrs Garland to Kit’s mother, ‘that it’s necessary to be very careful and particular in such a matter as this, for we’re only three in family, and are very quiet regular folks, and it would be a sad thing if we made any kind of mistake, and found things different from what we hoped and expected.’
— from The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens

During the subsequent obduction I saw most clearly how the corpse made all kinds of movements, and even after the section, during the dictation, of the protocol, my imagination still seemed to see the corpse moving a hand or a foot.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

His father's house was his home, and was ever after fondly remembered; nay, I appeal to some superior men who were educated in this manner, whether the recollection of some shady lane where they conned their lesson; or, of some stile, where they sat making a kite, or mending a bat, has not endeared their country to them?
— from A Vindication of the Rights of Woman With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects by Mary Wollstonecraft

She met all kinds of men along the plank walk, most of whom passed by, apparently unobserving.
— from The Border Legion by Zane Grey

I was quite astonished on emerging from this little temple to find on the other side the walls of the rock sculptured in the Egyptian manner, and kinds of modillions, as in the land of the Pharaohs.
— from From Paris to Pekin over Siberian Snows A Narrative of a Journey by Sledge over the Snows of European Russia and Siberia, by Caravan Through Mongolia, Across the Gobi Desert and the Great Wall, and by Mule Palanquin Through China to Pekin by Victor Meignan

He is one of those men who make a kind of magnetic atmosphere, so that you feel exhilarated and stimulated in their presence.
— from The Stark Munro Letters Being series of twelve letters written by J. Stark Munro, M.B., to his friend and former fellow-student, Herbert Swanborough, of Lowell, Massachusetts, during the years 1881-1884 by Arthur Conan Doyle

I cannot begin the instruction after my pupil has been hearing, in the morning, all kinds of music at the fountains.
— from Villa Eden: The Country-House on the Rhine by Berthold Auerbach

And still more began to come to me a kind of mysterious abhorrence of that building, above whose door was to be found the prayer that God might guard us against temptations.
— from Debts of Honor by Mór Jókai

He was a most amiable, kind old man, and promised to speak for me to all the clergy.
— from Life of Father Ignatius of St. Paul, Passionist (The Hon. & Rev. George Spencer). by Pius a Sp. Sancto (Pius a Spiritu Sancto)

I mean the use of the blowpipe, to make a kind of miniature analysis of minerals in the dry way; so far, at least, as to determine the nature of the constituents of the mineral under examination.
— from The History of Chemistry, Volume 2 (of 2) by Thomas Thomson

During that period, people received Christ to a certain degree unconsciously as far as their higher spirit-forces were concerned, and this caused them afterwards, [65] when they were obliged to receive them consciously, to make all kinds of mistakes, and to lose themselves in a maze instead of understanding Christ.
— from The Spiritual Guidance of Man and of Mankind by Rudolf Steiner