They all spoke kindly of my dead mother, who had been a slave merely in name, but in nature was noble and womanly.
— from Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself by Harriet A. (Harriet Ann) Jacobs

Hesiod reckons it among the qualities of the good , benevolent Eris, and it was not considered as offensive to attribute some kind of envy even to the gods.
— from The Dawn of Day by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

By this time Mrs. Hsüeh had prepared tea and several kinds of nice things and kept them all to partake of those delicacies.
— from Hung Lou Meng, or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel, Book I by Xueqin Cao

And that cause gave me, to aid my understanding, certain beliefs which are perhaps not wholly out of harmony with the true and sacred knowledge of the gods.
— from The Works of the Emperor Julian, Vol. 1 by Emperor of Rome Julian

Unfortunately its study would lead us to digress too far, and presupposes a more thorough and special knowledge of the subject.
— from A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud

But later on the princess noticed that, apart from this adoration, some kind of serious spiritual change was taking place in her daughter.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

There are several kinds of detachments.
— from The Art of War by Jomini, Antoine Henri, baron de

She might in truth have safely trusted him now; but he had forfeited her confidence for the time, and she kept on the ground progressing thoughtfully, as if wondering whether it would be wiser to return home.
— from Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman by Thomas Hardy

τὸ θεῖον μακαρίζομεν οὐδὲ ἐπ᾽ ἄλλῳ τινὶ τῶν νομιζομένων ἀγαθῶν, ἀλλ᾽ ὅπερ Ὅμηρός φησι (Further, that to make oneself like God as far as possible is nothing else than to acquire such knowledge of the essential nature of things as is attainable by mankind, is evident from the following.
— from The Works of the Emperor Julian, Vol. 2 by Emperor of Rome Julian

"My dear Embro," said Julius, "there are several kinds of facts.
— from Master of His Fate by J. Maclaren (James Maclaren) Cobban

For such they had unbounded goodwill and respect, and through their intercourse with these they acquired some knowledge of the latent possibilities of that civilisation of which the expedition, as a whole, was such a poor exponent.
— from Bonaparte in Egypt and the Egyptians of To-day by Abdullah Browne

The only proper method of endeavoring to acquire some knowledge of ancient history is to ascertain whether there remain any incontestable public monuments.
— from A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 06 by Voltaire

I can say as one who has tried the experiment—for it may be called an experiment to the beginner—that all who will take the course and accept the doctrine thus marked out will, through faithfulness, become acquainted with the truth, and shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God or of man, and will rejoice in it as all good, faithful Latter-day Saints do.
— from Gospel Doctrine: Selections from the Sermons and Writings of Joseph F. Smith by Joseph F. (Joseph Fielding) Smith

Years, experience, many trials, and some knowledge of the world, have convinced me that we have no lawful or harmless cravings for which, as far as God is concerned , there is not abundant satisfaction.
— from The Conquest of Fear by Basil King

There are six kinds of these tastes which the worker [14] especially observes and examines; there is the salty kind, which shows that salt may be obtained by evaporation; the nitrous, which indicates soda; the aluminous kind, which indicates alum; the vitrioline, which indicates vitriol; the sulphurous kind, which indicates sulphur; and as for the bituminous juice, out of which bitumen is melted down, the colour itself proclaims it to the worker who is evaporating it.
— from De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 by Georg Agricola

In this month, we must still continue to look out for ripe flower-seeds; also, there are several kinds of autumnal flower-bulbs, which may be planted, such as the autumnal crocus and Guernsey-lily.
— from The Book of Sports: Containing Out-door Sports, Amusements and Recreations, Including Gymnastics, Gardening & Carpentering by William Martin

“My colors,” said Tom, taking a small knot of yellow and maroon from his coat lapel.
— from A Quarter-Back's Pluck: A Story of College Football by Lester Chadwick