Charles , Archduke, claimant to Spanish throne as Carlos III., 206 ; lands at Lisbon, 208 ; lands in Catalonia and takes Barcelona, 213 ; takes and loses Madrid, 214 ; antipathy of Spaniards to, 214 , 216 ; inherits empire of Austria and elected Emperor Charles VI. of Germany, 217 ; makes, as king of Spain, secret commercial treaty with England, 221 ; discontented with Treaty of Utrecht, 222 , 234 ; renounces claim to Spanish throne, 235 ; joins Quadruple Alliance, 236 ; obtains Naples and Sicily, 239 ; loses Naples and Sicily, 248 ; dies, leaving no son, 262 ; succeeded by Maria Theresa, 262 .
— from The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan

When you approach a burrow the Squirels one, or more, usially Set erect on these Mounds and make a kind of Shrill whistleing nois, Something like tweet, tweet, tweet &c. they do not live on grass as those of the Missouri but on roots.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

"He seems to me a kind of Shelley, you know," Mr. Brooke took an opportunity of saying, for the gratification of Mr. Casaubon.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

The most those poor dumb brutes could do was to make a kind of squeak when they were hungry or wanted the door open, and, of course, to purr, and make the various mother-noises to their kittens.
— from Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

In Paris a young man sees in his mistress a kind of slave, whose destiny it is, before everything, to please his vanity.
— from On Love by Stendhal

We must also keep our sons from filthy language.
— from Plutarch's Morals by Plutarch

Every Man a King Orison Swett Marden Crowell Co. Famous Scouts Johnston Fidelity Ellen E. Kenyon Warner Hinds Noble & Co.
— from Boy Scouts Handbook The First Edition, 1911 by Boy Scouts of America

He was made a kind of starting-point and beginning of the advanced youth of God's people, who had passed a kind of age of puberty from Abraham to this David.
— from The City of God, Volume II by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

I have ever since seemed to myself broken off from mankind; a kind of solitary wanderer in the wild of life, without any direction, or fixed point of view: a gloomy gazer on a world to which I have little relation.
— from Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood by James Boswell

Upon Basilio’s imprisonment, the simple and grateful relatives had planned to make all kinds of sacrifices to save the young man, but as they could collect among themselves no more than thirty pesos, Sister Bali, as usual, thought of a better plan.
— from The Reign of Greed by José Rizal

So, one and all set up a roar, And laughed and hooted more and more, And kept on singing,—only think!— "Oh, Blacky, you're as black as ink!"
— from Struwwelpeter: Merry Stories and Funny Pictures by Heinrich Hoffmann

Jim had dodged them all and made a kind of sport of it.
— from We Can't Have Everything: A Novel by Rupert Hughes

, 248 Musket (or Pistol) of Wapping, i. 200, 201 and note Musty, a kind of snuff, i. 229; ii. 214, 352 Myrmidons, the, of Homer, ii. 52, 74, 81, 117 Nab, Ralph, haberdasher, humble petition of, iv.
— from The Tatler, Volume 4 by Steele, Richard, Sir

"Chevalier," said he, "take a friend's advice; send me a kind of surgeon whom you will find in the carriage, and whom I brought with me in case of accident.
— from The Conspirators The Chevalier d'Harmental by Alexandre Dumas

Whenever it shall come to the knowledge of any officer of this government, or any private citizen, that any kind of spirituous liquors are being distilled or manufactured in Oregon, they are hereby authorized and required to proceed to the place where such illicit manufacture is known to exist, and seize the distilling apparatus, and deliver the same to the nearest district judge or justice of the peace, whose duty it shall be immediately to issue his warrant and cause the house and premises of the person against whom such warrant shall be issued to be further searched, and in case any kind of spirituous liquors are found in or about said premises, or any implements or apparatus that have the appearance of having been used, or constructed for the purpose of manufacturing any kind of spirituous liquors, the officer who shall have been duly authorized to execute such warrant shall seize all such apparatus, implements, and spirituous liquors, and deliver the same to the judge or justice of the peace who issued the said warrant.
— from A History of Oregon, 1792-1849 Drawn From Personal Observation and Authentic Information by W. H. (William Henry) Gray

"Why," replied Corry, "all he does is to cut down two saplings, and make a kind of sled of 'em.
— from Winter Fun by William O. Stoddard

But hush, here come they! Don't say a word to him, Channah, or he'll turn round on me and keep on shouting in bed all night!
— from Forward from Babylon by Louis Golding

You see they make me a kind of savings-bank, and have done so for a long time, long before the ‘Plan of Campaign’ was talked about as it is now.”
— from Ireland Under Coercion: The Diary of an American (1 of 2) (2nd ed.) (1888) by William Henry Hurlbert

Really, there is nothing common in the manners of Tommy; there is, at any rate, one piece of rude mischief which he is never guilty of, but which many of the more aristocratic kinds of seal practise habitually.
— from The Strand Magazine, Vol. 05, Issue 26, February 1893 An Illustrated Monthly by Various

"When a man makes any kind of success, however small," he says, "he finds that his old friends resolve themselves into three classes.
— from Famous Authors (Men) by E. F. (Edward Francis) Harkins