Or some entirely new kind of scientific exercise?
— from The Innocence of Father Brown by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
What passed between them, what scene ensued, nobody knows, only this—he positively left her forever.
— from A Terrible Secret: A Novel by May Agnes Fleming
John should either not know, or not mention its creation.
— from The Discovery of a World in the Moone Or, A Discovrse Tending To Prove That 'Tis Probable There May Be Another Habitable World In That Planet by John Wilkins
"Oh give me happiness," and they hand you ever new varieties of covering for the skin, ever new kinds of supply for the digestive apparatus....
— from The Map of Life Conduct and Character by William Edward Hartpole Lecky
"It does sound like some entirely new kind of weapon," she agreed.
— from Project Daedalus by Thomas Hoover
The foremost party of the - 205 - hunters crossed first, and some, either not knowing or careless of the fords, enjoyed a bathe, swimming alongside their horses.
— from At Home with the Patagonians A Year's Wanderings over Untrodden Ground from the Straits of Magellan to the Rio Negro by George C. Musters
She saw no softening of the stern expression, no kindling of the cold, dark eyes, no tinting of the deadly pallor of the face.
— from For Love of a Bedouin Maid by Voleur
He has but one cause of enmity against me, that I refused to marry to his niece my natural son Enzio, now King of Sardinia."
— from History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, Volume II (of 2) Revised Edition by John William Draper
For a moment he feared the coalman might be trying on some elaborate new kind of joke, but the complacency of his face put it out of the question.
— from Erchie, My Droll Friend by Neil Munro
It pointed straight toward some entirely new kind of answer.
— from Occasion for Disaster by Randall Garrett
“It is some sort of privilege of poets to be egotists; but they should ‘use it as not abusing it’; and particularly one who piques himself (though, indeed, at the ripe age of nineteen) on being an infant bard— The artless Helicon I boast is youth— should either not know, or should seem not to know, so much about his own ancestry.
— from The Life of Lord Byron by John Galt
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