I have seen a teacher instruct a class of forty in such a way, as, in the first place, to secure the subordinate end of ascertaining and registering with a sufficient degree of exactness how much each scholar knows of the lesson by his own preparation, and secondly, to secure, during the whole hour, the active exercise and coöperation of each individual mind, under the powerful stimulus of the social instinct, and of a keenly awakened attention.
— from In the School-Room: Chapters in the Philosophy of Education by John S. (John Seely) Hart

Grote, always somewhat inclined to racial explanations, argues (ed. 1888, ii, 262), as against K.O. Müller, who had still stronger leanings of the kind, that the Spartans were not the "true Doric type," in that their institutions were peculiar to themselves, distinguishing them "not less from Argos, Corinth, Megara, Epidaurus, Sikyôn, Korkyra, or Knidus, than from Athens or Thebes.
— from The Evolution of States by J. M. (John Mackinnon) Robertson

It was an act of gallantry which inspired infinite gratitude, because it was performed in a manner evincing such kindness of heart.
— from Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon by Various

The teacher has seldom been trained to impart even the most elementary scientific knowledge of the facts of sex, of reproduction, and of sexual hygiene, and is more often than not without that personal experience of life in its various aspects which is required in order to teach wisely in such a difficult field as that of sex, even if the principle is admitted that the teacher in class, equally whether addressing one sex or both sexes, is not called upon to go beyond the scientific, abstract, and objective aspects of sex.
— from The Task of Social Hygiene by Havelock Ellis

The heads of each family were required to proceed to Loughrea before the 31st of January, 1654, to receive such allotments as the commissioners pleased to give them, and that they might erect some kind of huts on these allotments, to shelter their wives and daughters when they arrived.
— from An Illustrated History of Ireland from AD 400 to 1800 by Mary Frances Cusack

We've both always lived here; she's kept tab on me ever since; kind of puts the burden of proof on me to show that I can get along without her, if you understand.
— from The Opened Shutters: A Novel by Clara Louise Burnham

Mr. Ellsworth smiled, kind of, and shook his head, then he just sat looking at me.
— from Roy Blakeley's Adventures in Camp by Percy Keese Fitzhugh

The first white visitors to America found men exercising some kind of authority, and they called them kings, after the fashion of European government.
— from French Pathfinders in North America by William Henry Johnson