"Kind of" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... and nearer level than any over which they had passed since starting, so that nothing was in the way of preventing the richest kind of sport. ...
— The Huge Hunter - Or, the Steam Man of the Prairies • Edward S. Ellis
... one had only to go there with some one to play the flute, the tambourine, or the cymbals, set the proverbial mantic sieve [Footnote: I have no information on Coscinomancy or sieve- divination. 'This kind of divination was generally practised to discover thieves ... They tied a thread to the sieve, by which it was upheld, then prayed to the Gods to direct and assist them. After which they repeated the names of the person suspected, and he at whose name the sieve ...
— Works, V2 • Lucian of Samosata
... diamond ring, accompanied by an address, expressive of the admiration of the subscribers to the testimonial, had been publicly presented in that town to the popular author, at the rooms of the Society of Arts in Temple Row. The kind of feeling inspiring this little incident may be recognised through the inscription on the salver, which intimated that it, "together with a diamond ring, was presented to Charles Dickens, Esq., by a number of his admirers in Birmingham, on the occasion of the literary and artistic ...
— Charles Dickens as a Reader • Charles Kent
... the name of Israel was actually in point of fact in the olden time the proper Israel, and Judah was merely a kind of appendage to it. When Amaziah of Judah after the conquest of the Edomites challenged to battle King Jehoash of Samaria, whose territory had at that time suffered to the utmost under the continual wars with the Syrians, the latter bid say ...
— Prolegomena to the History of Israel • Julius Wellhausen
... put an end to that kind of fun," he said, angrily, while whittling a piece of soft wood. "With this in your mouth there won't be ...
— Down the Slope • James Otis
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