I pressed a silent kiss on the lips of the Muses, and they seemed to stir and move.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

Properly a small kind of nails used by cobblers.—
— from The Slang Dictionary: Etymological, Historical and Andecdotal by John Camden Hotten

He has no respect for the plainer and simpler kind of people as politicians, but a great respect and regard for their hearts.
— from Shakespearean Tragedy: Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth by A. C. (Andrew Cecil) Bradley

“If you want a doctor, tell him to keep his counsel, for people at Soleure know of my little indisposition, and they might say you caught it from me, and this would do us both harm.”
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

Properly, a small kind of nails used by cobblers.—Compare HORSE NAILS .
— from A Dictionary of Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words Used at the Present Day in the Streets of London; the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge; the Houses of Parliament; the Dens of St. Giles; and the Palaces of St. James. by John Camden Hotten

some strong and lusty, well fed like [2992] Hercules, [2993] Proculus the emperor, lusty Laurence, [2994] prostibulum faeminae Messalina the empress, that by philters, and such kind of lascivious meats, use all means to [2995] enable themselves: and brag of it in the end, confodi multas enim, occidi vero paucas per ventrem vidisti , as that Spanish [2996] Celestina merrily said: others impotent, of a cold and dry constitution, cannot sustain those gymnics without great hurt done to their own bodies, of which number (though they be very prone to it) are melancholy men for the most part. MEMB.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Performance is ever the duller for his act, and but in the plainer and simpler kind of people the deed of saying is quite out of use.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

Before the store-house is filled with yams, the magician places a special kind of heavy stone on the floor, and recites a long magical spell.
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski

But, as the law hath foolishly omitted this office of vice-husband, or guardian to an eloped lady, and as malice is apt to denominate him by a more disagreeable appellation, it was concluded that his lordship should perform all such kind offices to the lady in secret, and without publickly assuming the character of her protector.
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

Even in England, the most liberal country in Europe, they were exiled for long periods, maltreated at all points of contact with other people, more or less put under the ban of the Common and the Statute law, often outrageously taxed on their goods and persons, and studiously kept out of the paths of highest public employment even down to a time within the memory of living men.
— from Principles of Political Economy by Arthur Latham Perry

and he pressed a sounding kiss on the picture—"you're one in a million!
— from Thelma by Marie Corelli

On his first visit to the town after the sugar season is ended, he will be accompanied by his entire family, decked in their more tidy garments; and, before his return home, you may be certain that the Catholic priest, whose church he regularly attends, will receive a handsome present of the newly-made 18 sugar, with perhaps a small keg of the delicious maple sirup or molasses.
— from Haw-Ho-Noo; Or, Records of a Tourist by Charles Lanman

Its perfunctory sentences show that our Lord was for the Socinians simply a Prophet sent from God to proclaim a superior kind of morality.
— from A History of the Reformation (Vol. 2 of 2) by Thomas M. (Thomas Martin) Lindsay

Might not the Englishmen fear that their prisoners would denounce them to the fervent Catholics of that island as pirates and sacrilegious kidnappers of priests?
— from France and England in North America, Part I: Pioneers of France in the New World by Francis Parkman

C7-163 Thornley also believed that Oswald’s Marxist beliefs led to an extraordinary view of history under which: He looked upon the eyes of future people as some kind of tribunal, and he wanted to be on the winning side so that 10,000 years from now people would look in the history books and say, “Well, this man was ahead of his time.”
— from Report of the President's Commission on the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy by United States. Warren Commission

Rosie saw the pain in mamma's dear face, the tears in her eyes as she pressed a silent kiss on the brow of the innocent questioner, and with ready, loving tact she seized the little fellow's hand, and, drawing him away, "Come, Walter," she said, "let us go and tell the rest about it."
— from Elsie's Widowhood A Sequel to Elsie's Children by Martha Finley