Kind Sentence Examples
The years had not been kind to him.
What kind of a job do you have now?
He taught that men ought to be kind even to their enemies.
Be kind, and use your wits.
Alex doesn't want this kind of life.
They were very kind to me.
It kind of leaves you in trouble either way, doesn't it?
Yes, he is a fine fellow and a very kind relation.
In those days, people had not learned to be kind to their enemies.
Jonathan said you were taking him to some kind of horse race tomorrow.
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Well, on the one hand, you would be kind of cheesed-off.
I think you are very kind and patient, and I love you very dearly.
The princess is too kind to wish to deprive me of the pleasure of spending the evening with you.
Kind of humbling, don't you think?
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For the first time, it crossed Carmen's mind that he was kind of cute.
She glanced around for some kind of weapon as they walked, and soon came up with a walking stick.
So they threw their sabots, a kind of clog shoe, into the machinery to break it—an act that gave us the word sabotage.
Chauvinistic, no doubt, but it was kind of nice to be looked after.
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I saw him many times after that, and he was always a good friend to me; indeed, I was thinking of him when I called Boston "the City of Kind Hearts."
But he was kind and gentle only to those of his regiment, to Timokhin and the like--people quite new to him, belonging to a different world and who could not know and understand his past.
Kind of late for a walk, isn't it?
He said Alex was the kind of man who would crawl into bed with a woman on the first date.
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What kind of comment was that to make about her brother?
Over time, we will feel that kind of confidence in this kind of system.
He has such a kind heart!
In answer to Rostov's renewed questions, Denisov said, laughing, that he thought he remembered that some other fellow had got mixed up in it, but that it was all nonsense and rubbish, and he did not in the least fear any kind of trial, and that if those scoundrels dared attack him he would give them an answer that they would not easily forget.
Oh, my brave, kind friends, and he leaned his head against the shoulder of one of the men like a child.
Though nothing of the kind had happened to her she was regarded in that light, and had even herself come to believe that she had suffered much in life.
I figured that if Giddon was using a pseudonym, he would have to either do his banking with his own name or fill out some kind of paperwork to do business under another name.
And she is such a grande dame, so kind, and evidently likes me so much.
He saw the kind faces of those whom he loved.
He, who made every one happy in a beautiful, unobtrusive way, was most kind and tender to Miss Sullivan and me.
As far as he knew, she made a habit of this kind of activity.
At one end of the field was a lean-to shelter with some kind of equipment stored under it.
In an era when cameras were cumbersome and the number of channels on TV could be counted on one hand with enough fingers left over to snap, very little video of any kind was seen.
Conversation of this kind, interesting to no one yet unavoidable, continued all through teatime.
I might enjoy that kind of banter with a real person I will never meet, talking to me from a distant state.
Natasha did not want to go, but could not refuse Marya Dmitrievna's kind offer which was intended expressly for her.
Was it some kind of rhetorical flourish, just words that sounded good?
But, though everybody was kind and ready to help us, there was only one hand that could turn drudgery into pleasure.
The tune, played with precision and in exact time, began to thrill in the hearts of Nicholas and Natasha, arousing in them the same kind of sober mirth as radiated from Anisya Fedorovna's whole being.
He frequented every kind of society, drank much, bought pictures, engaged in building, and above all--read.
And so, if the railroad reached round the world, I think that I should keep ahead of you; and as for seeing the country and getting experience of that kind, I should have to cut your acquaintance altogether.
I did not know whether they had come to sow a crop of winter rye, or some other kind of grain recently introduced from Iceland.
On one of his estates the three hundred serfs were liberated and became free agricultural laborers--this being one of the first examples of the kind in Russia.
But she was not even grateful to him for it; nothing good on Pierre's part seemed to her to be an effort, it seemed so natural for him to be kind to everyone that there was no merit in his kindness.
It's kind of complicated.
They now bade farewell to the kind but unseen people of the cottage, and after the man had called their attention to a high, pyramid-shaped mountain on the opposite side of the Valley, and told them how to travel in order to reach it, they again started upon their journey.
Judge Marshall carried the turkey simply because he wished to be kind and obliging.
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Beneath the trees grew some kind of lush, wet, bushy vegetation with silver-lit leaves and stems here and there.
He is kind and generous.
It means that he is kind, noble, and splendid, and I could not help loving him.
What kind of snack could she whip up in fifteen minutes?
What kind would he be?
This is exactly the kind of problem geneticists can sink their teeth into, so to speak, to make the protein in this grain digestible.
Anything that looks too much like The Matrix movies or The Terminator movies is just, well, kind of creepy.
I have often held in my hand a little model of the Plymouth Rock which a kind gentleman gave me at Pilgrim Hall, and I have fingered its curves, the split in the centre and the embossed figures "1620," and turned over in my mind all that I knew about the wonderful story of the Pilgrims.
With this machine movable type shuttles can be used, and one can have several shuttles, each with a different set of characters--Greek, French, or mathematical, according to the kind of writing one wishes to do on the typewriter.
I had often read the story, but I had never felt the charm of Rip's slow, quaint, kind ways as I did in the play.
We will consider what kind of music they are like.
Every man looks at his wood-pile with a kind of affection.
It was a shared-popcorn, arm-around-her-shoulder, old-fashioned-love-story-movie kind of evening, topped off by a kiss goodnight—a real one, just one, maybe not passionate but on the lips and not a brother-sister smooch at all.
Considering what happened to you there, I don't know how you can look at it with any kind of fondness.
He was slaughtered by my kind, but he exists now.
Others didn't like me picking off their kind on earth?
This pissed your kind off while killing Others pissed them off?
She closed her eyes, ready to die, when a different kind of warmth flowed through her.
He did have kind eyes.
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The meaner sort are covered with mats which they make of a kind of bulrush, and are also indifferently tight and warm, but not so good as the former....
The present was my next experiment of this kind, which I purpose to describe more at length, for convenience putting the experience of two years into one.
It was a kind of fiction, a work of the imagination only, so far as he was concerned.
In such transparent and seemingly bottomless water, reflecting the clouds, I seemed to be floating through the air as in a balloon, and their swimming impressed me as a kind of flight or hovering, as if they were a compact flock of birds passing just beneath my level on the right or left, their fins, like sails, set all around them.
I have actually fished from the same kind of necessity that the first fishers did.
The parent will sometimes roll and spin round before you in such a dishabille, that you cannot, for a few moments, detect what kind of creature it is.
The whole bank, which is from twenty to forty feet high, is sometimes overlaid with a mass of this kind of foliage, or sandy rupture, for a quarter of a mile on one or both sides, the produce of one spring day.
I need only suggest what kind of sermons are still listened to in the most enlightened countries.
Carried out, it finally amounts to this, which also I believe,--"That government is best which governs not at all"; and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which they will have.
Let every man make known what kind of government would command his respect, and that will be one step toward obtaining it.
How is it that we women don't want anything of the kind, don't need it?
What kind?" she almost screamed; "I want to know!"
Secondly because, as far as I know, that girl is not the kind of girl who could please Prince Andrew.
He's not the kind to leave at a time like this.
She glanced up again and realized he was waiting for some kind of response.
No one will see me and tip those who vow to stop my kind.
Yeah. That's all Ronnie want's to discuss with people, like his wife's son is some kind of freak.
Garcia answered, "What kind of danger?"
I can make more than one kind at once.
What kind of creature could do this?
Damian suspected what kind of hell Dusty had been through and was pleased to see his trusted friend looking good.
What kind of creature would hurt a woman like this? her father asked.
I don't take orders from your kind.
I can track any animal, any kind of creature.
He'd killed and buried Jule's kind.
My kind always thought there was a way to reopen that gateway, and a few days ago, the gateway ruptured.
She pulled her hair into a simple French twist, the kind she wore to work, and applied her make-up carefully.
He was the kind of man she wouldn't think twice about running from, though the intelligence gleaming in his soulful brown eyes gave him away as something more.
He looked to his brother again, fury of the deepest kind running within him.
He'd been too kind in his execution of the sick bitch!
Jule is still not in favor among my kind.
She's too young to make that kind of decision!
On the other hand, it was kind of nice, just you and me.
What kind of deity added a smiley face to its messages?
You were kind to her.
What kind of stupid question is that?
I'm a flannel kind of guy.
It's kind of spooky.
This feels kind of weird.
Frankly, I don't think either of us can stand up to this kind of pressure.
The only thing she could think of was some kind of disease.
Sometimes it's kind of hard to figure you out, though.
Lana shook her head, wondering what kind of man thought of chocolate at such a time.
She was trained to assess, protect, repair, and sustain government systems through any kind of crisis.
He wasn't the kind of man to leave it lying somewhere.
Brady was a different kind of man.
She wasn't certain what kind of skills these people had that she didn't.
Mrs. Watson had been kind to her and Jack.
This is the kind of thing Lana could figure out.
They made her want to cry, for she couldn't imagine what kind of pain he'd been in after the helo crash.
What kind of father treats his daughter as a servant her entire life and lies to her about pretty much everything?
Gabriel cursed under his breath. He had no way of knowing what kind of test a deity like Death could create, but it wasn't likely to be good. While he had full faith in Rhyn, he also knew better than to trust the petite woman in white standing in his dream.
Lost in the food fantasy, she didn't see Gabriel disappear into the jungle. Katie blinked and looked around, still uneasy with the snakelike branches that moved of their own volition overhead. She didn't know what kind of creatures followed or what other critters would live in the Immortal jungle, but she wanted nothing to do with such a weird place.
And there is nothing hidden in these injections that will alert your kind?
He's in Hell, with our kind.
She was in some kind of danger, which meant he was the worst guardian angel in the history of guardian angels.
If you loved her enough to destroy the world for her, then you know the pain Kris has been through twice. Hell cannot hold a candle to that kind of pain.
Pain streaked through her, the kind of pain with no physical source. Katie began to cry, unable to see an end to her ordeal that would mean she – or her baby – lived. She hugged her stomach and sobbed for the loss of Rhyn, her own life, their child's.
If he can't deal with that kind of adversity, how could he deal with something greater, like protecting us little humans?
I guess that's the kind of thing you do when you're bored.
Death didn't come. Darkness fell, and Rhyn waited. He paced and stretched, imagining there would be some kind of a struggle. At long last, he forced himself to admit she wasn't coming. No one could've overlooked the blow he dealt her underworld. The trees all around them had died off with a tear forming in the earth that led in the direction of the palace.
Katie's eyes watered, and she squeezed him harder. The nightmares of the past few weeks seemed to fade away while she was in his arms. She'd been too afraid to think about what kind of life they might possibly have, but she found herself wondering how it would feel to wake up and go to sleep with Rhyn beside her.
She had short brown hair and kind hazel eyes.
I don't know what I'd have done without the neighbors—they've been unbelievably kind.
We just didn't have secrets—at least not the sneaky kind.
You're a very kind man.
Mr. Mayer has been very kind.
What kind of car does he drive?
Otherwise I'd always wonder what it looked like, what kind of place it was and I'd never know.
He's barefoot after he leaves his shoes on the beach and needs some kind of footwear so he might as well get bike shoes; after all, he's biking.
Sunday was a sleep-in-late kind of day, followed by a Phillies game on TV and a few naps in between mental re-hashes of the prior late-night conversation with Cynthia Byrne.
Where would he come up with that kind of dough to repay you?
I kind of hoped she might be with you," and then he added, a tad self-consciously, "she's been gone all night."
Fred asked, reaching for his glasses, "some kind of a race?"
I'll do nothing of the kind!
I should know better, but I kind of fell in back there with your pace.
Fred, in a particularly kind mood, had not only picked up the gear but set up Dean's tent for him.
It kind of ticked me off—like I was an assignment he had to take care of, and our going out wasn't a social thing.
You're looking kind of fuzzy.
They saw people not for who they were or what they had, but for what kind of person they were.
In two weeks, they'd be relatives... kind of.
At twenty-five, that kind of thing wouldn't be an issue for most women.
It seems kind of silly for you to get up every morning and walk over there to clean his house and do his chores – then go back to your house.
Throwing back the covers, she slid off the window seat and headed for the door, using her fingers as a comb to put her hair in some kind of order.
There's nothing between us anymore but friendship and I don't want to ruin that with this kind of talk.
Kind of, except that in this case, God told you not to open them in the first place – and he saw you do it anyway.
She rescued me from three of your kind.
When this is over, I'll encourage Darian to hunt your kind as well.
Your kind is not exactly protected against us.
What kind of men did such to a woman of any clan, even an enemy clan?
He was among his own kind.
Not the kind of fear one experienced when falling from a horse, but a soul-deep fear that wrapped around her core.
I cannot see what comes, but I know what kind of a man Taran is.
I wondered …He has such kind eyes.
Yes, Alex did have kind eyes, though she had never actually thought of it that way before.
Rob wasn't the first man to make that kind of remark and he probably wouldn't be the last.
Even so, how did a person respond to that kind of praise?
That kind of praise was reserved for the less attractive, it seemed.
Now she was costing him time at the clinic, an ambulance bill and who knew what kind of medical bills?
Don't act like I'm some kind of control freak.
That's just the kind of thing your father would say.
If you gave me free rein I'd have every kind of animal there was.
Polaris – that kind of rolls off the tongue, doesn't it?
It sounds kind of noble.
I know nothing of the kind.
On the other hand, she hadn't been exactly kind either.
And I didn't think you were the kind to jump into bed with . . .
What kind of place is that?
Kind of like a mower, only they drag it behind a tractor.
What kind of questions was he asking?
Tall with dark hair... had a kind of sophisticated look about him.
The forest floor was rocky, with occasional yellow flowers and some kind of ground cover with tiny blue flowers.
Refreshed and clean, she made herself a sandwich of lunch meat and scratched her way through half of a novel before she gave up and went to the bathroom to search for some kind of ointment.
I should have warned you to wear some kind of repellent.
He sounded kind of like a snob to me.
I suppose he is... kind of.
I thought you were some kind of wild animal.
Not that it mattered, except that kind of talk would make it uncomfortable for Denton and Clarissa.
No, you wanted a take-charge kind of man.
After all, every married couple started out with some kind of problem.
It was not a warm smile, like Xander's mother gave him, but a kind of smile that left Xander scared, without knowing why.
It was the kind of finery she should be wearing, instead of being trapped in rags at the edge of the city.
Born to a wealthy merchant family, she'd been disowned when it became known what kind of deformed child she bore.
What kind of monster refuses to kill women?
I don't think hurting them is the right kind of motivation.
He'd never be able to sense the Original Other or Original Watcher, since they were able to move without detection by anyone, even their own kind.
I wish I'd been involved in the latest war to protect my kind.
This was the kind of place one went for a sexual escape.
What kind of cat had red eyes?
Which meant – whatever her intentions were – she was a new kind of challenge, and Xander found himself intrigued.
It was bad enough that Jonny was threatening some kind of penalty.
The kind of body that was strong enough to hold and protect her from the freaky dream she'd stumbled into this week.
She hated that kind of insincerity, but if ever she wanted to deliver it, it was now.
What kind of psycho are you?
Drinking her blood was a different kind of experience.
A surrender from someone like this was the kind of challenge he needed.
He was well-dressed and perfectly presented, not the kind to dine at what she envisioned a taco shack to be.
Fortunately, he was good at reminding her what kind of …creature he actually was.
He's the kind of person you need to run from, if you ever meet anyone like him.
Not the kind you're interested in.
He's not the kind of person I want to piss off.
He doesn't seem like the kind who has friends.
Your kind are targets for bad guys.
Kind of like how Jonny moved around.
What kind of secret could you possibly have?
I'm not a one-night stand kind of girl.
One she kind of found herself liking for more reasons than he was the sexiest man she'd ever seen and his touch made her want to throw herself into his bed.
Xander is an anomaly among our kind.
Xander understood that some part of Jessi was stuck in hard core denial, the kind that needed irrefutable proof that she had no other alternatives.
He was torn again between frustration and the kind of interest that came from trying to capture a ghost.
Maybe this kind of revenge really is better.
Kind of hard not to agree at that point.
I may not control them, but I maintain power over my kind, the way you do over the vamps.
Considerations of this latter kind will naturally present themselves in the two great departments of cosmology and psychology, or they may be delegated to an independent research under the name of religious philosophy.
Certain difficulties that he met with in his speculations led him to the conclusion that the particles of any one kind of gas, though all of them alike, must differ from those of another gas both in size and weight.
It is evident that this is practicable if the number and kind of atoms contained in the molecule of a compound can be determined.
The symbols of compounds become very concise, as the number of atoms of one kind in a molecule can be expressed by a sub-index.
Quarrels of a kind only too common among exiles followed; the Hungarians were especially offended by his claim still to be called governor.
A kind of jam-cake, called a "Bakewell pudding," gives another sort of fame to the place.
The food of this species seems to consist of the seeds and buds of many sorts of trees, though the staple may very possibly be those of some kind of pine.
It is evident from the fact of thirteen inhabitants being allowed to hold the manor that the town had some kind of incorporation in the 17th century, although its incorporation charter was not granted until 1899, when it was created a municipal borough.
This belief in the infallibility of revelation is involved in the very beliefs in revelation itself, and is common to all sections of Christians, who differ mainly as to the kind and measure of infallibility residing in the human instruments by which this revelation is interpreted to the world.
The scenery is fine, but wild and desolate in most parts, and of a kind that appeals rather to the northern genius than to the Italian, to whom, as a rule, Sardinia is not attractive.
They have a kind of short kilt, stiff, made of black wool, with a band from back to front between the legs; under this they wear short linen trousers, which come a little below the knee, and black woollen leggings with boots.
Institutions possessing a special character are the monti frumentarii, public grain deposits, founded for the purpose of supplying peasant proprietors with seed corn, debts being paid in kind with interest after harvest.
In all other questions of this kind he shows himself far in advance of the economic fallacies of the day.
What makes him memorable in English history is that he opposed the establishment of a special kind of political organization.
He appears to have entered into consultation of a treasonable kind with Monmouth and others; he himself had, he declared, ten thousand brisk boys in London ready to rise at his bidding.
The name is also applied to a special kind of wall-paper, which has an appearance almost like cloth, or, in the more expensive kinds, of velvet.
It is one of the largest buildings of the kind in Germany, covering an area of 15 acres, and having a frontage of about 600 yards.
As it was to a cat of the latter kind that Linnaeus gave the name of Felis catus, Pocock urges that this title is not available for the European wild cat, which he would call Felis sylvestris.
The first kind lay quite beyond the power of man to receive it, the second was within man's reach.
In reason, as in revelation, man can only attain to the lower kind of knowledge; there is a higher kind which we may not hope to reach.
The excessive heat of the upper regions compels him to descend, and he next visits the bottom of the sea in a kind of diving-bell.
The footless larvae are elongate, worm-like and very active; they feed upon almost any kind of waste animal matter, and when full-grown form a silken cocoon.
Owing to the proximity of the capital this group is comparatively subject to the Turkish power, and pays a small annual tribute; the chiefs, who assess and collect the tribute, form a kind of administrative council; the confederation has also an official representative council at Scutari, called the Jibal, under the presidency of a Serkarde or Moslem official.
The fixing of stoves of this kind entails the laying of pipes or ducts from the open to convey fresh air to the back of the stove.
Napier lived in the very midst of fiercely contending religious factions; there was but little theological teaching of any kind, and the work related to what were then the leading political and religious questions of the day.
As the deed was not destroyed, but is in existence now, it is to be presumed that the terms of it were, riot fulfilled; but the fact that such a contract should have been drawn up by Napier himself affords a singular illustration of the state of society and the kind of events in the midst of which logarithms had their birth.
But Presbyterianism was associated in the 2nd century with a kind of episcopacy.
A second powerful influence was of a different kind, viz.
No kind of information is excluded, but the fullest details refer to the bishopric of Merseburg and to the wars against the Wends and the Poles.
Evergreens predominate in the south, where grow subtropical plants such as the myrtle, arbutus, laurel, holm-oak, olive and fig; varieties of the same kind are also found on the Atlantic coast (as far north as the Cotentin), where the humidity and mildness of the climate favor their growth.
The museum was the first institution of its kind in Greece, but the collection was transferred to Athens in 1834.
This, however, does not necessarily imply that in its origin it was specifically Hebrew, but only that it had acquired distinguishing features of a marked kind.
His great fame as a professor of civil law at the university of Bologna caused Balduinus to be elected podestd of the city of Genoa, where he was entrusted with the reforms of the law of the republic. He died at Bologna in 1225, and has left behind him some treatises on procedure, the earliest of their kind.
Existing classifications, however, do not take account of any difference in kind between mountain and hills, although it is common in the German language to speak of Hiigelland, Mittelgebirge and Hochgebirge with a definite significance.
Edward took the paper and thanked the kind minister.
A full-scale, no-holds-barred, nuclear-missiles-raining-down kind of world war would profoundly change the course of human history for all time.
If you will be so kind, I'll fix a time and go down to the estate just for a day, and leave my lassies with you.
It was plain that l'amour which the Frenchman was so fond of was not that low and simple kind that Pierre had once felt for his wife, nor was it the romantic love stimulated by himself that he experienced for Natasha.
Whether the preservation of my father's house in Moscow, or the glory of the Russian arms, or the prosperity of the Petersburg and other universities, or the freedom of Poland or the greatness of Russia, or the balance of power in Europe, or a certain kind of European culture called "progress" appear to me to be good or bad, I must admit that besides these things the action of every historic character has other more general purposes inaccessible to me.
Apparently he was merely looking for companionship - his kind.
He never questioned if Julie knowledge presented any kind of threat.
It took me back to when we were kids, in Amherst and this knowing kind of trust and kinship we'd shared.
Howie is kind of tired and the old lady, his mother, isn't doing well.
I kind of have your soul, don't I?
The drug wore off, leaving her in a dark fog, hot and sweating with a different kind of headache, the kind she got after taking a lot of Dr. Mallard's drugs.
He was built from the same mold—large and muscular, the kind of man more fitted to military special forces or UFC prizefighting than financial planning.
Jule had never said what he'd done to piss someone off and get exiled to earth, but it must have been bad if the Watcher's kind clipped his powers and sent him packing.
His was not the kind of pain she could fix.
I didn't just turn you Immortal; I turned you into one of my kind.
He had almost been kind, or at least, as kind as he was capable of being.
This was the kind of man whose depravity Darkyn preyed on.
I kind of like him, even if he scares me.
I mean, you're in Hell maybe even being torn to pieces every day and you're being kind to me.
What kind of backward thinking is that?
Boston was a tad rowdy back then and we were kind of young and frisky ourselves.
Kind of like me, huh?
Kind of a drag, but he meant well and his old lady's cooking was something.
It came in the form of a drone who told him in her second language that information of that kind was not available.
It looks as if they were kind enough to just let the air out—not slash them.
It's kind of spooky knowing that's a part of a human being.
I don't need that kind of grief.
Look, I feel like a fool asking embarrassing questions, especially to someone as kind as you've been, but my wife and I promised a little girl we'd follow up on this.
The runners might encounter any kind of weather, including freezing temperatures, fog, rain, or snow.
But what Lydia suggested he was up to was the worst kind of criminal sexual harassment.
I was kind of scared they might shoot us or something, but nothing bad happened.
I was kind of embarrassed about the money not coming in the mail like I said.
No. It was like they came in it from the store but a different kind of package.
What kind of deal did she make with Darkyn to rewrite the mating laws of the time-before-time?
He listened, though, curious what kind of deal human-Deidre had made with the only goddess to ever outsmart the Dark One and Immortal Laws.
She crossed to the pantry again, suddenly curious about what kind of new, intense flavors awaited her in the assortment of boxes and cans.
The pain settling into her was of a different kind.
He was able to tackle this kind of problem, unlike the strange tension between him and his mate.
They were the kind of fangs a man fantasized about, not too large to cause damage but sharp enough to offer an exquisite combination of pleasure and pain if she nipped him.
It was a new kind of sense, one he'd never experienced before.
That was kind of far out, even for Lori.
The dark eyes implored her, possibly searching for some kind of assurance that he wasn't going to die.
He was tall and kind of heavy set.
I'm kind of a plain Jane.
That's kind of like buying a baby.
She wasn't the kind who sat around waiting to die, not when she wanted so badly to enjoy every day until she was no longer able to.
She didn't seem like the lunatic kind.
His strength was the kind she could almost imagine herself melting into.
What kind of deal had past-Deidre made that the Oracle didn't record?
She didn't want to know what kind of creatures they might be.
There's an anomaly in your blood that makes you compatible with our kind.
The kind of good friend I need to pay a special visit to?
What kind of children's book is this?
My magic is of a different kind.
He was the kind of man who struck once - and it'd kill his target.
I think the compass tells you what kind of soul it is.
No, I was kind to you and to the human Deidre.
He had her kind of humor.
This time, she sensed restrained power of a different kind.
Darkyn was not a kind master.
The soft, firm words of the female in the driver's seat were the first kind ones of the day.
What kind of mother let her five-year-old son carry on with death like he was a favorite uncle?
You fell, and I tried to catch you, but then you kind of veered to one side and I grabbed your arm but then you --
It's kind of like… Ully looked around and stretched for the pen on the table.
She has a hereditary blood anomaly that makes her immune to all but the oldest of our kind.
Is there any other kind?
Though she tried hard not to fear death, she wondered what kind of creature was capable of breaking through bars made of materials she'd never before seen and held in place with some sort of magic.
She wanted to see what the beast looked like, what kind of monster he'd be, yet knew if she saw him in full light, he was on his way to kill her.
What kind of human protector allowed one of his own men to turn her over to something like Sasha?
The geometric shapes changed as they circled her neck rather than stuck to a pattern; she assumed it was some kind of writing.
That's kind of sad.
Their gazes locked, and she felt a different kind of warmth slide through her.
His penetrating gaze gave her a different kind of chill, one that made her blood quicken as well as her step.
Silence surrounded them, not the good kind, but the heavy kind that made her want to hold her breath lest she break it and all hell erupt.
The walls were made of uneven, massive stones, the same kind beneath her feet.
There really couldn't be any kind of good demon, could there?
It was cold and large, not the kind of place she.d ever choose to live.
Andre was too kind to kill you.
You are a traitor of the worst kind.
She continued to the small women.s boutique that stocked every kind of facial and body care product she.d ever heard of—and many she hadn.t.
He.s not the kind of demon you want to piss off.
Even at such a young age, Rhyn.s features were troubled and somber, as if he knew what kind of a life awaited him.
He wasn.t the kind to pity himself.
She hadn.t been certain about the kind of life she.d have with him, but she was certain she didn.t want a life without him.
At least there you know what kind of shit you.ll go through.
He radiated the kind of quiet power Gabriel did.
In all his years in Hell, he.d never known this kind of pain.
She couldn't help wondering if Evelyn really understood that going to his home country would mean she'd hear this kind of nonsense all the time.
Perplexed as to what kind of movers worked at such an hour, she roamed through the row house from top to bottom.
At first glance, Lishana did not seem the kind of mother-in-law that might cause Evelyn problems.
Ne'Rin was the kind of man who took orders, not the kind of man who valued strategy.
Someone else would have to do the thinking for him if he were to execute any kind of betrayal.
He'd never seen art of this kind, only the statues of his father's court and the multi-hued strands used to decorate homes.
I wanted my nephew to see what kind of enemy he had.
I want to see what kind of planet produces women like you.
You're kind of upset about it.
Dean wondered if she might be on some kind of medication.
I wasn't going to tell you, but you've been so kind.
You'll do nothing of the kind!
Kind of beating the horse to the front of the pack a bit early in the race, isn't she?
She lacks any kind of positive self-image.
It's your inn and you've been very kind to all of us.
The WCTU and Anti-Saloon League were active and the churches sure didn't like the kind of business going on in Ouray.
There was a biography on him from some local storage shed association that made him some kind of muck a muck a few years back.
But then he pictured his beautiful wife, her unfailingly sweet and kind nature, and refused his mind's picture of her kneeling there in the snow, calmly sawing Shipton's rope until it parted, plunging him to his bloody death.
In my mind, that speaks of organizing, not the kind of behavior Edith Shipton has demonstrated.
I wouldn't be giving out that kind of information now, would I?
Then she added, What kind of a mother lets her son do something stupid like climbing icicles at the age of twelve?
It didn't appear Shipton had a relationship of any kind with Janet nor did she seem to have any logical reason to try and kill him.
Kind of strange, I guess.
Regardless of Weller's kind words, he realized deep down if he had been more understanding of the troubled woman, she might still be alive.
I guess there was death—but not scary death—only inevitable, the-time-has-come kind of passing.
Jackson did not feed recklessly like many of his kind.
He had never felt such shame and self-loathing. He closed the door to his room, and leaning against it, thought, what kind of monster have I become?
The Exemplars rule our kind.
The kind man's face held a hint of sympathy.
She is a kind, gentle soul and would never hurt you.
He heard her sharp intake of breath and crooned, "I'm thinking we might have a different kind of fun together."
So, I think you can understand you really get to know a person in that kind of time, right?
Maybe she had some kind of contacts that blocked you.
This seems kind of thin.
What kind of perfume are you wearing, it's wonderful.
Elisabeth, what kind of car do you drive?
What kind of cheese did you use in the omelet?
No, but I try to stay as far away from your kind as I can.
He finally broke the silence, "So, are you some kind of wolf royalty?"
Do you know much about my kind?
No, I'm okay, kind of talked out.
You know, Sarah was very kind to me.
I don't know, it kind of feels like I would be moving in.
You have no idea what kind of magic it holds.
Elisabeth asked Sam, "What kind of higher purpose are you talking about?"
Every year, the full moon in January is the Wolf Moon and there is a three day festival that all werewolves attend… kind of our high holiday.
I hate to admit it, but I'm kind of bummed that you're leaving me on my birthday.
They're one of a kind.
As the family climbed the stairs with Sarah, Jackson said, "I can take care of this, perhaps you should see to a drink of a different kind for yourself."
She thinks she is some kind of vicious animal.
That's kind of gross, isn't it?
The worst of it is, now he thinks he has some kind of claim staked on me.
Maybe that kind of love didn't exist.
Or maybe that kind of excitement existed only in newfound relationships.
So what kind of man are you looking for?
Just for the sake of conversation, what kind of man would appeal to you?
It was time to give Josh some kind of answer.
Carmen, I want to marry you in the worst way, but if you think I'm going to be the kind of man to stand back while my woman flirts with another man, you're sadly mistaken.
What kind of person did he think she was?
You're kind of tough on wildlife, aren't you?
Maybe the goats had some kind of control over commencement of labor.
What kind of girl do you think I am?
I'm kind of tied to Houston at the moment.
Now tell me what kind of class you're attending.
Kind of silly, when you get to thinking about it, I guess.
Of course, Josh was as good looking, if not better looking in a rugged kind of way.
We kind of strayed from the subject, didn't we?
You'd better be careful making that kind of remark.
I'm simply not ready to face that kind of commitment yet.
I thought you domestic security types were supposed to be watching this kind of thing.
They don't take our kind there, anyway.
She wasn't the kind of woman who would ever belong in his world.
She wanted to think he'd done it to help her, but what kind of a monster could execute another in cold blood?
The heads are surrounded with a kind of head-dress or halo and one wears a necklace.
They never, in any situation, cultivated the soil for any kind of food-crop. They never reared any kind of cattle, or kept any domesticated animal except the dog, which probably came over with them in their canoes.
Thus, if x= horned and y = sheep, then the successive acts of election represented by x and y, if performed on unity, give the whole of the class horned sheep. Boole showed that elective symbols of this kind obey the same primary laws of combination as algebraical symbols, whence it followed that they could be added, subtracted, multiplied and even divided, almost exactly in the same manner as numbers.
The Turkestan Committee elects a small council, forming a kind of cabinet and having control of the different branches of the administration.
On the formation of the Wirth ministry in May 1921 he was appointed Minister of Reconstruction, and in that capacity negotiated with the French minister, Loucheur, a convention for supplying German materials for the restoration of the devastated area in France, and thus paying in kind part of the reparation which the German Reich had undertaken to pay in gold.
If the gall-bladder was swollen, it pointed to an extension or enlargement of some kind.
In the absence, however, of any relics of a kind which might lead to the identification of the ancient miners, their nationality and origin are matters which must continue to be mere questions of speculation and conjecture.
The most valuable kind is that obtained from young trees of twenty to thirty years' growth, but the trunks and boughs of timber trees also furnish a large supply; it is separated from the tree most easily when the sap is rising in the spring.
The astringent principle is a peculiar kind of tannic acid, called by chemists quercitannic, which, yielding more stable compounds with gelatine than other forms, gives oak bark its high value to the tanner.
A peculiar kind of sugar called quercite exists in all acorns.
But his chief work was of a different kind and done on a different scale.
Oracular possession of the kind above described is also common among savages and people of lower culture; and Dr Tylor, in his Primitive Culture, ii.
Francis Bacon expressed his conviction that heat consists of a kind of motion or "brisk agitation" of the particles of matter.
In the interest of euphony some harmonious sound is needed to bridge the great gap which almost always exists between the bass and the upper instruments, but this filling out must be of the softest and most atmospheric kind.
The complainer entirely overlooks the fact that this is the kind of music in which such a phrase will certainly be heard again before we have time to forget it; and as a matter of fact the strings promptly repeat it fortissimo in a position which nothing can overpower.
Far greater polyphonic detail of another kind is no doubt possible, but it requires far longer time for its expression.
Timbre itself is, as Helmholtz shows, a kind of harmony felt but not heard.
It was regarded as the principal establishment of the kind in the country till the foundation of Netley in Hampshire.
The actual load factor to be chosen depends on the nature of the work and the kind of crane.
Obviously, nearly every kind of crane can be made portable by mounting it on a carriage, fitted with wheels; it is even not unusual to make the Portable Scottish derrick portable by using three trucks, one under the mast, and the others under the two back legs.
A transporter of this kind, when fitted with a grab, is a very efficient machine for taking coal from barges and depositing it in a coal store.
The state demanded men for the army and the corvee as well as dues in kind.
In commercial matters, payment in kind was still common, though the contracts usually stipulate for cash, naming the standard expected, that of Babylon, Larsa, Assyria, Carchemish, &c. The Code enacted, however, that a debtor must be allowed to pay in produce according to statutory scale.
Faults or any other irregularity in the cable may be represented by putting resistances of the proper kind into the artificial line.
Experiments of this kind were actually tried by Graham Bell in 1882, with boats on the Potomac river, and signals were detected at a distance of a mile and a half.
In 1894 he exhibited apparatus of this kind in which the tapping back of the tube of filings was effected automatically.
Marconi, however, made the important discovery that if his sensitive tube or coherer had one terminal attached to a metal plate lying on the earth, or buried in it, and the other to an insulated plate elevated at a height above the ground, it could detect the presence of very feeble electric waves of a certain kind originating at a great distance.
It is still used locally for making shoes, ships' cables, mats and a kind of spun cloth.
The earliest instrument of this kind was the Hunnings transmitter, patented in 1878.
It has been defined as apparently a kind of collective madness.
In the former case a peasant family undertakes all the necessary work in return for payment in money or kind, which varies according to the crop; in the latter the money wages and the payment in kind are fixed beforehand.
If the tiller receives as much as 45 lire per month, supplemented by other wages in kind, it is said to be boaria a salario; if the principal part of his remuneration is in kind, his contract is called boaria a spesa.
The estaglio, or rent, is often paid in kind, and is equivalent to half the produce of good land and one-third of the produce of bad land.
There are various categories of inquilinaggio, according as rent is paid in money or in kind.
Founded in 1735 by the marquis Carlo Ginori, they maintained a reputation of the very highest kind down to about 1860; but since then they have not kept pace with their younger rivals in other lands.
Other cities where the ceramic industries keep their ground are Pesaro, Gubbio, Faenza (whose name long ago became the distinctive term for the finer kind of potters work in France, falence), Savona and Albissola, Turin, Mondovi, Cuneo, Castellamonte, Milan, Brescia, Sassuolo, Imola, Rimini, Perugia, Castelli, &c. In all these the older styles, by which these places became famous in the IthI8th centuries, have been revived.
The cura tori or curatoli (factors) receive 40 a year, with a slight interest in the profits; the stockmen hardly earn in money and kind 13; the muleteers and underworkmen get between 5 to 8, plus firewood, bread and oil; irregular workmen have even lower wages, with a daily distribution of bread, salt and oil.
Up to that year some of the regions of the kingdom, such as Tuscany, continued to have a kind of autonomy; but by the laws of the 20th of March the whole country was divided into 69 provinces and 8545 communes.
As the companies grew in size and improved their discipline, it was seen by the Italian nobles that this kind of service offered a good career for men of spirit, who had learned the use of arms. To leave so powerful and profitable a calling in the hands of foreigners seemed both dangerous and uneconomical.
Another work of a similar kind was Le Speranze dItalia (1844) by the Piedmontese Count Cesare Balbo.
The catastrophe was the greatest of its kind that has ever occurred in any country; the number of persons killed was approximately 150,000, while the injured were beyond calculation.
As he himself took part in the events he describes, his work was a kind of memoirs.
But Osiander's house had another attraction of a different kind from theological sympathy.
The gradual elaboration of the sacrificial ceremonial, as the all-sufficient expression of religious devotion, and a constantly growing tendency towards theosophic and mystic speculation on the significance of every detail of the ritual, could not fail to create a demand for explanatory treatises of this kind, which, to enhance their practical utility, would naturally deal with the special texts and rites assigned in the ceremonial to the several classes of officiating priests.
In " Some Causes of Belief," he tries, standing outside the psychological process, to show how beliefs grow up under every kind of influence except that of genuine evidence.
Although in later ages its importance was enormously magnified, it differs only in degree, not in kind, from other charters granted by the Norman and early Plantagenet kings.
In its original form the text of Magna Carta was not divided into chapters, but in later times a division of this kind was adopted.
This kind of writ allowed a man to refer the question of his guilt or innocence to the verdict of his neighbours instead of proving his innocence by the duel.
Roger of Wendover asserts that John issued a separate charter of this kind when Magna Carta appeared.
The mesogloea in the hydropolyp is a thin elastic layer, in which may be lodged the muscular fibres and ganglion cells mentioned above, but which never contains any connective tissue or skeletogenous cells or any other kind of special mesogloeal corpuscles.
In massive colonies of this kind no sharp distinction can be drawn between hydrorhiza and hydro-, .
In some polyps the tentacles are webbed at the base, and it was supposed that a medusa was a polyp of this kind set free, the umbrella being a greatly developed web or membrane extending between the tentacles.
To Spinoza (as Kuno Fischer observes) man differs from the rest of nature in the degree only and not in the kind of his powers.
A complex apocentric modification of a kind which we cannot imagine to have been repeated independently, and which is to be designated as uniradial, frequently forms a new centre around which new diverging modifications are produced.
It is suggested that even in the absence of modification produced by any possible Darwinian or Lamarckian factors, that even in a neutral environment, divergent evolution of some kind would have occurred.
His image and name are often found on "votive hands," a kind of talisman adorned with emblems, the nature of which is obscure.
That this may be conveniently inquired into, synods are to be held, three in every year, in each province, and questions of this kind examined.
The occupants of certain sees by a kind of prescription became legates without special appointment, legati nati, as in the case of Canterbury.
In the diocese of Rome, exercised discipline of a penitential kind over their lay members; but in later times their censures have generally ceased to carry temporal consequences.
The so-called "black amber" is only a kind of jet.
Both inculcated a peculiar kind of ascetic life; both had a mystical speculative theory of religion, with purificatory rites, abstinence from beans, &c.; but Orphism was more especially religious, while Pythagoreanism, at least originally, inclined more to be a political and philosophical creed.
The rules of the Orphic life prescribed abstinence from beans, flesh, certain kinds of fish, &c., the wearing of a special kind of clothes, and numerous other practices and abstinences.
A specialized conducting tissue of this kind, used mainly for transmitting organic substances, is always developed in plants where the region of assimilative activity is local in the plant-body, as it is in practically all the higher plants.
When, in place of a number of such cells called tracheids, we have a continuous tube with the same kind of wall thickening, but composed of a number of cells whose cross walls have disappeared, the resulting structure is called a vessel.
Another kind of differentiation in such a cell-mass as we are dealing with is the setting apart of particular groups of cells for various metabolic purposes.
It may be, however, that there is no special mechanism, but that this power is a particular differentiation of a physiological kind, existing in all vegetable protoplasm, or in that of certain cells.
There is no direct connection between the two, the oxygen is absorbed almost immediately by the protoplasm, and appears to enter into some kind of chemical union with it.
The decomposition of the complex molecule of the sugar liberates a certain amount of energy, as can be seen from the study of the fermentation set tig by yeast, which is a process of this kind, in that it is intensified by the absence of oxygen.
The growing apex of such a stem will alternately incline, first to one side and then to the other, exhibiting a kind of nodding movement in the two directions.
There is consequently a transmission of the stimulus from the sensitive organ to a kind of motor mechanism situated some little way off.
The existence of rhythm of this kind has been observed and studied with some completeness.
They are composed of a homogeneous proteid substance, and often contain albuminoid or proteid crystals of the same kind as those which form the pyrenoid.
As the sieve plate grows these non-cellulose regions swell and gradually become converted into the same kind of mucous substance as that contained in the tube; the two cells are thus placed in open communication.
Metamorphosis.It has already been pointed out that each kind of member of the body may present a variety of forms. For example, a stem may be a tree-trunk, or a twining stem, or a tendril, or a thorn, or a creeping rhizome, or a tuber; a leaf may be a green foliage-leaf, or a scale protecting a bud, or a tendril, or a pitcher, or a floral leaf, either sepal, petal, stamen or carpel (sporophyll); a root may be a fibrous root, or a swollen tap-root like that of the beet or the turnip. All these various forms are organs discharging some special function, and are examples of what Wolff called modification, and Goethe metamorphosis.
The most varied changes of this kind have been described, and are generally familiar as monstrosities; the study of them constitutes, under the name of teratology, a distinct department of biology.
For instance, the animal traps of carnivorous plants (Drosera, Nepenihes, &c.) did not, presumably, originate as such; they began as organs of quite another kind which became adapted to their present function in consequence of animals having been accidentally caught.
Investigations of every kind which have been based on original sources of knowledge may be styled "research," and it may be said that without "research" no authoritative works have been written, no scientific discoveries or inventions made, no theories of any value propounded; but the word also has a somewhat restricted meaning attached to it in current usage.
This slender distinction was made much of by most subsequent writers until Nathanael Carpenter in 1625 pointed out that the difference between geography and chorography was simply one of degree, not of kind.
The direct geographical elements are the arrangement of land and sea (continents and islands standing in sharp contrast) and the vertical relief of the globe, which interposes barriers of a less absolute kind between portions of the same land area or oceanic depression.