On exploring these heaps of earth to their centre, it is usual to meet with human bones, strange instruments, arms and utensils of all kinds, made of metal, or destined for purposes unknown to the present race.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 1 by Alexis de Tocqueville

Licentiousness and misconduct of any kind rendered them liable to be deprived of their mastership.
— from Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period by P. L. Jacob

A mine of any kind may be said to be either fertile or barren, according as the quantity of mineral which can be brought from it by a certain quantity of labour, is greater or less than what can be brought by an equal quantity from the greater part of other mines of the same kind.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

Abdolominus in Curtius, a poor man, (but which mine author notes, [4549] the cause of this poverty was his honesty ) for his modesty and continency from a private person (for they found him digging in his garden) was saluted king, and preferred before all the magnificoes of his time, injecta ei vestis purpura auroque distincta , a purple embroidered garment was put upon him, [4550] and they bade him wash himself, and, as he was worthy, take upon him the style and spirit of a king, continue his continency and the rest of his good parts.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

KING OLAF AND KING ONUND'S PLANS.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

But if the nutritive juice, so presented, does not remain in the part, but withdraws to another one, and keeps flowing away, and constantly changing and shifting its position, neither adhesion nor complete assimilation will take place in any of them.
— from Galen: On the Natural Faculties by Galen

It was originally only a kind of cap, light and very small; but it gradually became extended in size, and successively covered the ears, the neck, and lastly even the shoulders.
— from Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period by P. L. Jacob

She was haughty and fearless; she cherished a love of power, and a bitter contempt for him who had despoiled himself of a kingdom.
— from The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

As Napoleon pathetically said at St. Helena, when reviewing the conduct of his brothers, "If I made one a king, he imagined that he was King by the grace of God .
— from The Life of Napoleon I (Complete) by J. Holland (John Holland) Rose

He would go into one of the towers and work as long as he dared cutting the bars with a saw he had made out of a knife.
— from The Twin Hells A Thrilling Narrative of Life in the Kansas and Missouri Penitentiaries by John N. (John Newton) Reynolds

It would be unfair to compare the unfinished piece of the older poet, overcrowded as it is with detail and technical phraseology, with an elaborate specimen of Virgil’s descriptive power, exercised on a kind of subject in which the speculative genius of the one poet gave him no advantage over the careful and truthful art of the other.
— from The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil by W. Y. (William Young) Sellar

Although a constant reader of all kinds of papers and books, I had never heard anything of Christian Science, except a short notice that spring in a San Francisco newspaper, from an orthodox clergyman, referring to the Christian Science people in not very complimentary style.
— from Science and Health, with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy

Was I not two years and twenty, and did I not venture for the life of a king’s son?
— from A Daughter of Raasay: A Tale of the '45 by William MacLeod Raine

The gravamen of the charge was, that Frémont had mutinied because Kearney would not appoint him governor of California; and the answer to that was, that Commodore Stockton, acting under full authority from the President, had already appointed him to that place before Kearney left Santa Fé for New Mexico: and the proof was ample, clear, and pointed to that effect: but more has since been found, and of a kind to be noticed by a court of West Point officers, as it comes from graduates of the institution.
— from Thirty Years' View (Vol. 2 of 2) or, A History of the Working of the American Government for Thirty Years, from 1820 to 1850 by Thomas Hart Benton

But on the other hand Moscow was at the moment swarming with spies of all kinds; and this might be one.
— from By Right of Sword by Arthur W. Marchmont

If this is done we cannot further be asked the question, why : for the relation proved is that one which absolutely cannot be imagined as other than it is, i.e. , it is the form of all knowledge.
— from The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer

There must exist a determinate proportion between any number of bearing vines and such a number of young as are necessary to replace them when they go off and keep up a regular succession.
— from The History of Sumatra Containing An Account Of The Government, Laws, Customs And Manners Of The Native Inhabitants by William Marsden

I do not now mean that one man’s estimate of the value of any kind of pleasures differs from another’s: for we have assumed each sentient individual to be the final judge of the pleasantness and painfulness of his own feelings, and therefore this kind of discrepancy does not affect the validity of the judgments, and creates no difficulty until any one tries to appropriate the experience of others.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick