How To Use In kind In A Sentence

Apparently some people have an inborn tendency to develop certain kinds of tumour.
From the outset, we get the kind of writing beloved of a certain kind of creative writing teacher: the kind you can pluck out and quote admiringly.
These networks, which included certain kinds of neighbouring, included those for whom ties of kinship were of primary significance.
He'd come uninvited, but not unexpected; if it was rude of us to be such unsolicitous hosts, I told myself, it was only rudeness paid in kind, so we tried to forgive one another, Willie and I, for our eager, curious hunger grown insatiable. Heron Lake
From the Whiskey Rebellion to the Know-Nothings to the reborn Militias of the 1990s, the eastern establishment has always had reason to fear the expression of a certain kind of cussed American individualism that rebels against what it sees as the encroachments of the state. Obama's Culture War

It applies S-curve and adaptive control method in order to improve system performance and strengthen adaptability in kinds of complex circumstance.
Part of this may be cultural — Korean variety shows certainly display a pleasantly anything-goes aesthetic — but my sense is that merely singing in English semiotically signals a certain kind of Muzak quality within a dramatic context. Archive 2008-04-01
For his part, Walsh declines to respond to Armstrong's bitter personal criticism in kind, and he displays no outward signs of animus toward the Tour champion.
To be a muddle-headed aesthete, even to be interested in the aesthetic qualities of literature at all, has long been anathema to a certain kind of critic, grounds for accusing writers of being morally deficient, but why, for example, would it probably not occur to these critics to declare, say, composers too interested in art, too attentive to the needs of form over those of morality? Narrative Strategies
In this light, George W. Bush’s mendacity is not different in kind but in ambition from that of other presidents. Letters to the Editor
V. -- Your own fortune, father-in-law (in certain kinds of society they say _papa father-in-law_) yielding an income of twenty thousand, and which will soon be increased by an inheritance. Analytical Studies
Children begin school in kindergarten and attend elementary, preparatory, and secondary school.
Certain kinds of stories should be avoided like a hymn with eight verses. Christianity Today
The predictions of standard economic theory – the expectation that freely operating markets will produce a certain kind of optimality – only hold good as long as the markets are not marred by serious imperfections. Limitations of markets
Even if I have different objects interwoven or crosscutting one another or in a certain kind of contrapuntal configuration, the clarity is really important to me. NewMusicBox
Alan had taken his démarche with a certain kindly complacency. DARE CALL IT TREASON
To each sally Lilí responded in kind, with squeals.
Women wanted equal access to positions of power and freedom from the stereotyping of them as inadequate for certain kinds of work.
Over the years, the main explanation of non-use has centred on the notion of nuclear deterrence: states have been deterred from using nuclear weapons because of the concerns of retaliation in kind by adversaries.
There had to be oxygen present, and the surface on which the match was struck had to be of a certain kind.
The fans responded in kind, cheering him and howling with laughter at his relentless japery. Jonah Keri: Tim Raines, Andre Dawson, and Being an Expos Fan
Human beings are genetically programmed to learn certain kinds of language.
His real kindness was shown by genial estimates of character and liberal appreciation of the labours of others engaged in kindred studies.
The humble gilet has become the wardrobe staple for a certain kind of woman. Times, Sunday Times
Excluding these three groups, Rosenberg found a strong correlation between geographic distance and genetic distance, as the clinal theory would predict, but also found that the three main kinds of barriers -- oceans, the Sahara, and the Himalayas -- "adds an equivalent amount of genetic distance as traveling approximately 3,100 km on the same side of the barrier. More revelations about the genetics of race
Disability varies infinitely in degree and in kind. Times, Sunday Times
The nutrient deficiency of Anthurium scherzerianum was studied. The typical symptom of limp and leaves lacking of certain kind of big element were observed and analyzed.
Repetitively hollerin '' ganja 'at the crowd and asking them to respond in kind just seemed silly and by the volume of the response, one would think the crowd thought the same - wrong call Mr B. Virtual Festivals
It’s a natural and useful weapon for use against power, especially against a certain kind of bureaucratized and institutionalized hierarchy — like a government school, and like the military. Work to rule in middle school
To pursue a certain kind of fame is to invite people into your life. Times, Sunday Times
This, too, is not unlike certain kinds of natural selection.
[55] The words ladles and ladler seem to have descended from a time when the exactions were made in kind by ladling the quantity out of the sack. Life of Adam Smith
Those two famous closing rounds were wholly different in kind. Times, Sunday Times
In the first place, the rule could apply only to a certain kind of poetry.
There is a certain kind of movie viewer who wants to know the entire plot of a film before it opens.
It is affirmed that the aumils and renters exact from the proprietors of the actual harvest a large increase in kind on their stipulated rent: that is, from those who hold their _pottah_ by the tenure of paying _one half_ of the produce of their crops, either _the whole_ without subterfuge, or a _large_ proportion of it by a _false measurement_ or other pretexts; and from those whose engagements are for The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 08 (of 12)
February 12th, 2009 at 9: 54 pm dunkin kindler – because the Putins of the world didn’t already conclude George W. Bush was a patsy. Matthew Yglesias » Judd Gregg Fail
Thirty of these families had chosen to redshirt their daughters back in kindergarten.
M. Naudin states, that a certain kind of furze or thistle, of which cattle are very fond, may be made to grow without thorns -- an important consideration, seeing that at present, before it can be used as food, it has to undergo a laborious beating, to crush and break the prickles with which it is covered. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 448 Volume 18, New Series, July 31, 1852
Certain kinds of chemicals that are released in the nose can lead to nasal symptoms like itching, runniness, stuffiness and sneezing. Allergy sufferers journey into the season of symptoms
We also believe that certain settings and certain kinds of support can help parents form these bonds and nurture their children successfully.
It takes a certain kind of cameltoe to pull off the truing stand function. Waist Not Want Not: Excessive Wear
But as you've said, people tend to associate you with a certain kind of picture.
It soothes and elates, bringing me back to the emotional state of being on a class trip in kindergarten, when every kid lined up at the local ice cream parlor and ordered the same thing: mint chocolate chip in a sugar cone. Just-Like-the-Parlor Mint Chip Ice Cream
And so in certain ways, they are in kind of a no-win situation.
The collusion is an activity of alliance made by some people in an organization for seeking a certain kind of malfeasant benefit.
For example, difficulties with certain kinds of math problems are often related to visual-spatial processing.
There's a classicism to it, a dressiness, a certain kind of quaintness, despite the contemporary edge. Times, Sunday Times
The humble gilet has become the wardrobe staple for a certain kind of woman. Times, Sunday Times
And there is a certain kind of neurosurgery by which they can be treated, wherein they still report feeling the same sensation, but they don’t mind it anymore. Well, It’s Relatively Objective
I mean what could you possibly win, apart from cash and the kind of frankly transitory and ephemeral applause of certain kinds?
So imagine we have a certain kind of particle called a graviton -- that's the kind of debris we expect to be ejected out if the extra dimensions are real. Brian Greene on string theory
she pays him back in kind
Same way with a certain kind of patten leather button shoe or something. Oral History Interview with Clay East, September 22, 1973. Interview E-0003. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
Disability varies infinitely in degree and in kind. Times, Sunday Times
Cats can also become allergic to certain kinds of food and also to inhaled pollen and dust. Times, Sunday Times
This strange expression comes from the north of England and is used, mainly by women in my experience, as a sharp-tongued and effective put-down of a certain kind of pushy, over-confident male.
As you have noticed from the arguably strange format of this writing, there is a certain kind of circularity to it: I tell you something, I get your mind-flow going making new associations between familiar words that, hopefully, lead to, not exactly epiphanies, but minor yet possibly useful insights. Pavel Somov, Ph.D.: Pavlovian Sleight-of-Words
As it turns out, Baker has a really firm handle on a certain kind of working class woman.
When we label certain kinds of books "boy books" we are not only reinforcing a certain idea of manliness that doesn't include all boys, we are also cutting boys and girls off from a lot of books they might actually like. Charles London: There Are No Boy Books
From various patrons they may receive outright gifts, sponsorships, bequests, donations in kind and money.
The humble gilet has become the wardrobe staple for a certain kind of woman. Times, Sunday Times
You would see certain kinds of services that would be an integrated aspect of that user interface.
Our commitment's been demonstrated in the $10 million we've already given to the United Nation's Trust Fund and our pledge of an additional $10 million in in kind logistical support to the United Nation's mission in East Timor, which is known as Unimet. Australia Indonesia Business Council
This dog doesn't eat certain kinds of meat
In his eighteenth year he entered Trinity College, Dublin, as a sizar, that is, a poor student who pays in part for his tuition by doing certain kinds of work. Selections from Five English Poets
For certain kinds of mathematical problem, computers have no short cuts to the right answer.
You can't compare them — there is a fundamental difference in kind.
But this is to confuse the practice of a certain kind of commercialized storytelling with realism, the latter of which probably becomes more genuine the farther away it gets from storytelling. Translated Texts
He claimed South African mercenaries were training rebels in Kindu to use the smuggled weapons, and demanded an international probe into the matter.
In kinder climates such as hers, she says, pulmonarias, cyclamen, and primroses bloom early enough to pair nicely.
So job vacancies in kindergartens will for the first time be open to graduates who are not majoring in preschool education.
Poignant and never sentimental, this elegant memoir recalls how a family adapted and reorganized itself over and over, enduring and succeeding to remain kindred in spite of living apart. Brother, I'm Dying: Summary and book reviews of Brother, I'm Dying by Edwidge Danticat.
Nonetheless, for all the protestations of the convinced minority, only a certain kind of mind can make the leap of faith to truly, madly, deeply believe in UFOs.
But unlike in ordinary life, their tales of downfall are not treated with sniggers; they're treated with awe, a certain kind of humility, and sympathy and understanding.
From this perspective male and female genitals are not essentially different in kind but merely located in different places, one inside and one outside, each possessing identical elements.
Mickey and Harry (along with one of Haller's ex-wives, on the D. A.'s team) will work to reconvict a man they believe personifies "certain kinds of evil in the world that had to be contained, no matter the hardship. Death in L.A.; Southern Suspicion; Spenser Gets Artistic
In the limiting case, the visitor is simply told that certain specimens and artifacts have certain kinds of names.
The qualities that make a poet are not different in kind from what other men have.
It must be observed however that the statement of the revenue in money though usual and in some respects convenient is in reality a fiction, the greatest portion of it being claimable and actually paid in kind .... Connecting Histories in Afghanistan: Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier
They differ in degree but not in kind.
Bolton fans have taken Holdsworth to their hearts and the striker has responded in kind with his wholehearted commitment to the cause.
As well as excellent fuel economy it also allows the company driver to avoid the three per cent benefit in kind diesel surcharge.
The seventies were very sleek and empty, more concerned with structure, form, and a certain kind of ascetic rigorousness.
Twenty-four hours later, after what he termed "chirpy Blackburn fans" responded in kind, he decided to quit the social networking site, although the decision is thought to owe more to abuse his outspoken wife, Emma, has received in recent weeks. Blackburn justify Steve Kean's optimism with defeat of Bolton
The approach could mean squeezing the length of appointments late in the day or double-booking certain kinds of visits, such as physicals for new patients who run a higher chance of going AWOL. No-Show Patients Exact a Daily Toll
But Anatole also develops a worthy theme nondidactically: Giving back makes you feel good even if you can’t repay others in kind. 2009 May « One-Minute Book Reviews
The constraints of a certain kind of commercial fiction have tended to formularize the field over the last 50 years.
Adopting principal modes of group play therapy from abroad can inspire its implementation and theory research in kindergartens and primary schools in our country.
I have heard stories of kids having what they call psychotic breakdowns in kindergarten, kids who are distressed because they are 'kindergarten failures' because they can't read and they can't write," she says. Boston.com Top Stories
Has Stanley's ill-considered publication of this literary leviathan given license to a certain kind of rebarbative white animus toward any stirrings of black cultural ascendancy?
That gave, or could have given the impression, or could have caused the danger of creating a certain kind of boastful attitude, creating CASTRO SPEECH DEDICATING ENGELS VOCATIONAL SCHOO
Mourinho was monothematic when it came to football and a certain kind of football. Times, Sunday Times
In fact, many, many Catholic women who are devout and active in their parishes think church leaders hate women, and they respond in kind.
Certain kinds of stories should be avoided like a hymn with eight verses. Christianity Today
The illocutionary act is what is directly achieved by the conventional force associated with the issuance of a certain kind of utterance in accord with a conventional procedure.
It must be something to do with our climate, whose low grey skies encourage a certain kind of anorak to spend hours burrowing in libraries. CathNews
The study of speech acts is indeed the study of a certain kind of human behavior, but for that reason it is in conflict with any form of behaviorism, which is conceptually incapable of studying human behavior. A Special Supplement: Chomsky's Revolution in Linguistics
There are huge gluts in some sectors, particularly in property, infrastructure, carmaking, building materials, and certain kinds of petrochemicals, machinery and engineering.
As for question (5) — one aspect of it is whether education or a certain kind or part of education should be public or not, whether the state should be an edu - cator in the sense of regulating and supporting some or all of the educational enterprise within its bounds. EDUCATION
The essential issue has been the preservation of the ability to resort to armed terror, while limiting their opponents' capacity to respond in kind.
Analogy means that the events being investigated are essentially similar in kind to those of which we ourselves have direct experience.
And—being human—we responded in kind, seeking out dogs for their obsequiousness and unconditional devotion. From the Cave to the Kennel
He believes that even craftsmen and laborers above the lowest level, who generally made 1.5 tael or so a month plus payments in kind, could afford books, but this assumes that they could save a tael a month.
In fact, as we take a closer look at that area, you'll see the rain kind of skirting the region, skirting Lake County at this time. CNN Transcript Feb 3, 2007
His most striking proposition to the lay reader is that human beings are genetically programmed to learn certain kinds of language.
The wedding invitation, once the model of a certain kind of brevity, is now often a mere component of a thick dossier with multiple stamps. The Wedding Merchants
He now no longer thought his cousin without them, but he thought she knew how to control them; in fact, they had grown to love each other with that certain kind of cousinly affection which one often sees, and which is very true and lifelong, but has not the rapture, the intensity, nor the anguish, which belong to really falling in love. Peak's Island A Romance of Buccaneer Days
He was simply mirroring my behavior, responding in kind to whatever I was doing.
Well, just certain kinds, it turns out: His Transportation Security Administration recently tried to prohibit employees from visiting websites displaying "controversial opinion.
But it will never repay a certain kind of close reading, that which is in vogue today and looks for aporias, fissures, self-subversions, and the rest of the deconstructionist's tool-kit.
He had been costly to hire, by Keos reckoning, where most things are paid in kind. The Praise Singer
This woman actually had to be rescued because so much rain kind of deluged this particular apartment complex. 26 other people had to be brought to safety from the flooding in that apartment complex. CNN Transcript Sep 20, 2009
The poor peasants, to whom my apparent poverty and my beggarly attire gave confidence, described their distress in that country where the soil does not produce every year enough grain to pay the pax in kind.
He seems interested only in characters who project a certain kind of masochism, and misogyny. What’s Eating Leonardo DiCaprio?
A certain kind of businessperson, I suspect, will buy Where Good Ideas Come From in order to learn to how to come up with a killer business idea, bring it to market, and clean up financially. The Guardian World News
Human beings are genetically programmed to learn certain kinds of language.
And Gertrude retaliates in kind when she punningly and pithily retorts: ‘We shall as soon get a fart from a dead man as a farthing of courtesy here.’
These obligations were initially rendered in kind, in terms of labor or provisions, but were gradually commuted to cash contributions.
If you follow his convoluted logic, it makes a certain kind of sense, but he's stretching things.
It's about a certain kind of sensibility - fear and sensitivity in the modern world.
I choose to rise up out of that storm and see that in moments of desperation, fear, and helplessness, each of us can be a rainbow of hope, doing what we can to extend ourselves in kindness and grace to one another. And I know for sure that there is no them - there's only us. Oprah Winfrey
He was simply mirroring my behavior, responding in kind to whatever I was doing.
Robert Fulghum is right to say that the world would be a much better place if everyone would do what they learned in kindergarten.
Certain kinds of property are transferred automatically at death.
So long as a cadger [from the Scandinavian word for "huckster"] is generous in turn (though not necessarily in kind), he ought not to be considered a deadbeat, freeloader, or sponger. Boing Boing
Where is Isabel, the courteous, the conversable, a sister in kindness? Chronicles of the Canongate
Doctors suggest drivers avoid eating certain kinds of fruits, such as bananas and litchis, because these fruits can result in inattentiveness, sleepiness and fatigue, which increase the risk of traffic accidents.
Again and again the relation of conductors and non-conductors has been shown to be one not of opposition in kind, but only of degree (1334, 1603.); and, therefore, for this, as well as for other reasons, it is probable, that what will affect a conductor will affect an insulator also; producing perhaps what may deserve the term of the electrotonic state (60. 242. 1114. Experimental Researches in Electricity, Volume 1
In the ritual legal opera only certain kinds of song can be performed; only certain persons can sing.
I choose to rise up out of that storm and see that in moments of desperation, fear, and helplessness, each of us can be a rainbow of hope, doing what we can to extend ourselves in kindness and grace to one another. And I know for sure that there is no them - there's only us. Oprah Winfrey
But they're very masculinist, they're very blokey, they do appeal to a certain kind of image of modernist, alpha male sort of image.
It takes a certain kind of stoicism to endure such an extreme environment, and to flourish there.
He gathered a handful of burdock leaves and a bundle of deadfall branches, shaving some of the latter into paper-thin kindling. A PLAGUE OF ANGELS
Macramé is an Arabic word, signifying an ornamental fringe or trimming, which has been adopted as the term for a certain kind of hand-work, known also as «knotted fringe» or «Mexican lace» and produced by the knotting, interweaving and tying together of threads. Encyclopedia of Needlework
It takes a certain kind of breed of person to jump on the back of a bull.
But now, increasingly, those infinitesimal aspects of everyday life, taken together, are seen to have a broader importance and even might be the keys to a certain kind of political action or subversion.
The stories are collectively a portrait of a certain kind of enervated sophistication that even the enervated sophisticates yearn to see upended. The Munro Doctrine of Humor
In fact, some of them were truly vitriolic, mostly from students (presumably) who had taken the "you" in the title personally, and decided to respond in kind. WordPress.com News
Those two famous closing rounds were wholly different in kind. Times, Sunday Times
But as we approach the 10th anniversary of 9/11, a treasure trove of documentaries, books representing both sensationalistic and investigative journalism, Hollywood action blockbusters, PBS and Christiane Amanpour specials later, there still seems to be a lack of clarity around and an obsession with the term "terrorism" -- and a certain kind of racially and religiously understood "terrorism. Maytha Alhassen: From 9/11 To 8/22: My Arab-American Muslim Father Was A Victim Of American Terrorism
Solesmes have established for it in their valuable publications, then we must admit that the melismata of the Gregorian Alleluia, even the longest of them, are much shorter than, and are different in kind from, the melismata of the jubilus to which the versus ad sequentias and the sequences proper were attached. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss
Collected under direct military pressure, these allowed exactions of money and payments in kind at considerably higher rates than any civil system permitted.
This coding system assumes that no children were using substances in kindergarten and any reports of use by the sixth grade represent initial onset of substance use.
Those two famous closing rounds were wholly different in kind. Times, Sunday Times
In the ritual legal opera only certain kinds of song can be performed; only certain persons can sing.
Its quarries, with those of Rohannou, were the principal ones of Egypt; they supplied a certain kind of red granite called syenite, out of which were cut the obelisks, monolithic temples, the colossus, etc. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon
Again, a certain kind of modish appearance seems important. Movie stars see their name in lights and on babies
But member states have sometimes refused to allow currency exchanges designed to facilitate certain kinds of transaction.
a certain kind of jocoseness which is so naturally associated with spirituous liquors; no talk could have been less offensive. By the Ionian Sea
Then she brought in kindling and a final armful of logs to put in the stove itself. MIDNIGHT IS A LONELY PLACE
Some, like Carlsbad, resemble Yucca in kind if not location—find a quiet area and bury the stuff.
Bribes are receivable in kind: for example, a university professor gives an A grade to the child of the manager of a building company in exchange for renovation work on the professor's house.
As I understand it, in a process developed by a Kiwi agricultural scientist working in cooperation with the airport, an endophyte fungus is introduced to a certain kind of grass called fescue and the end product is given the catchy name Grasslanz Technology. Christine Negroni: Airport Sends Biological Message to Critters: Planes Suck
However, programmes are not allowed to accept cash or gifts in kind in return for using products.
His wildly successful steakhouses, of which the Houston edition is No. 11, asks the diner to surrender to a certain kind of theatrical experience.
On the other hand, her version of the pigment known as cochineal red, a concoction made from the carapaces of a certain kind of beetle, eventually achieved an electric intensity that has almost no equal; only the Italian architect Felice della Greca, who worked in Rome in the 1650s, ever mixed cochineal red with oranges and purples in such boldly fluorescent combinations, and he drew buildings and cityscapes rather than insects, birds, and flowers. The Flowering Genius of Maria Sibylla Merian
Revenue in kind received by the grazier included animals and sheep products.
A certain kind of fictionalist might claim that the real meaning of “Stealing is wrong” should be rendered in the cohortative mood (which in English is not grammatically distinguished from imperative): “Let's pretend that stealing is wrong.” Moral Anti-Realism
There was little currency available so that payment in kind, barter and truck were widespread.
Literature, we might conclude, is a speech act or textual event that elicits certain kinds of attention.
The devices were crude and consisted of two main kinds: a) the flat applicators (radium plaques) which were flexible or rigid and designed for external use and b) the spherical ones used in endocavitary applications. Trafficking Materials and Gendered Experimental Practices: Radium Research in Early 20th Century Vienna
Then Germany declared against Portugal, whose government replied in kind; Austria followed Germany in the alignment and finally, in August, 1916, there were exchanges of sharp "courtesies" -- the complete severance of all diplomatic relations and open warfare -- between Roumania and Kelly Miller's History of the World War for Human Rights
In (_a_) the application of _words_ is limited, or restricted, to the two words mentioned; in (_c_) _words_ is restricted to a certain kind. Graded Lessons in English an Elementary English Grammar Consisting of One Hundred Practical Lessons, Carefully Graded and Adapted to the Class-Room
A macrobiotic diet consists mainly of whole grains and certain kinds of vegetables.
These are merely answers in kind, which can no doubt be met with plausible rejoinders.
For example, if a certain kind of protein on the surface of a cell - a "cadherin" -- tends to get sticky under certain microenvironmental conditions, and when this happens cadherin-bearing cells will clump together. The Origin of Form Was Abrupt Not Gradual
The Ammonites were next, both in kindred and neighbourhood, to the Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
Since the joke is about a patriarchally-constructed stereotype of a certain kind of woman, then yeah, the joke is anti-woman. MORE VINTAGE ADS (SEXIST ONES THIS TIME) » Sociological Images
Total remuneration includes bonuses or the value of benefit in kind extras such as company cars as well as salary.
Those two famous closing rounds were wholly different in kind. Times, Sunday Times
Now it chanced one holiday, that Kuzia Fakan fared forth to make festival with certain kindred of the court, and she went surrounded by her handmaids. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
Other creatures, such as the antelope-like saiga of Central Asia and certain kinds of desert hares, have filtering tissues surrounding their respiratory tracts that give them the same adaptive advantage.
Since the opponents argument depended on Scripture, Paul - an expert exegete - replied in kind.
The Cress of the herbalist is a noun of multitude: it comprises several sorts, differing in kind but possessing the common properties of wholesomeness and pungency. Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure
What they do not do is erase the larger cultural matrix and power relations that propel women to undertake certain kinds of body transformations instead of others.
In the second segment, we introduce the classification of the group life insurance and the clauses of the main kind of group life insurance in our life insurance company.
The humble gilet has become the wardrobe staple for a certain kind of woman. Times, Sunday Times
Unfortunately, I can remember being taught, “No one likes a tattletale” in kindergarten by my teacher. Live Blog from the Anchor Desk 10/01/09
The bladder also is of the nature of membrane, but of membrane peculiar in kind, for it is extensile. The History of Animals
A born super model, according to Lauren Hutton (who, if you’re old enough to remember, could do some awfully nice things to a swimsuit), has a small head, a perfectly symmetrical face, superior bone structure, and a certain kind of proportioned body. Heidi Klum Loves Your Forkhorn
The waiter, though, bowed before us -- a shockheaded personage in the ruins of a dress suit -- at the same time saying words which I took to be complimentary until one of my friends explained that he had called us something that might be freely translated as a certain kind of female lobster. Europe Revised
The Bamfords have stopped contributing directly to the Tory party, although free helicopter and plane rides fall into the bracket of payments in kind.
He was an ignorant fellow as far as book-learning went, but there was a lively intelligence there, of a certain kind. TESTIMONIES
In both books, the name for a certain kind of boy at Eton is bitch. Arrested Development
He came home; and Mr. Austin kindly bade him take his house for his home till he could return to me. Letter 20
As for the Manitou Stone--it's probably not this one--"Manitou stones" are in fact a generic name for certain kinds of headstones in New England; as this page puts it, "manitou" is "a word used by the Algonquin speaking peoples of New England to mean 'spirit,' as in having spiritual power. Week 22: Fried
The boiled chrysalis of a species of silkworm is exposed for sale as a great delicacy, and so are certain kinds of hairless, fleshy caterpillars. The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither
Sometimes, a lie is told in kindness. I don't believe it ever works kindly. The quick pain of truth can pass away, but the slow, eating agony of a lie is never lost. John Steinbeck
Yes, mam, de spider got three legs dat it sets on en de griddle, dat what I makes dese little thin kind of hoecake on. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves South Carolina Narratives, Part 1
I mean what could you possibly win, apart from cash and the kind of frankly transitory and ephemeral applause of certain kinds?
A certain kind of Briton prefers circumlocution and euphemism for even everyday speech: ‘I wonder if I could trouble you for a glass of water?’
The other was 'a certain kind of liquid matter, which they call starch, wherein the devil hath willed them to wash and dye their ruffs well; and this starch they make of divers colours and hues -- white, red, blue, purple, and the like, which, being dry, will then stand stiff and inflexible about their necks. ' Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 442 Volume 17, New Series, June 19, 1852
Apparently some people have an inborn tendency to develop certain kinds of tumour.
Social arrangements differed more in degree than in kind from those in other colonies. The American Nation: A History of the United States to 1877
In crude terms, the causes of mental illness seem to be of three main kinds.
The Liberals have an interesting dilemma, similar in kind to the Labour dilemma.
There is alfo found a certain kind of fat clay, called marl, both white and red, which they dig up and fpread upon their arable ground, which maketh it more rank, and bringeth corn in as great abundance as that which is dunged. The History of Cheshire: Containing King's Vale-royal Entire
It was answered in kind by Wellington, who was no longer Wellington but a windigo. THUNDER BAY
The typical teardrop is basic, just a bed and a little galley (kitchen) area, and this one is no exception, except for the extra-wideness of it and the spoke tires, apparently a sign of hot-rodness incarnate (and to be honest, not a selling point for me, though I get many admiring remarks - about the trailer - from certain kinds of men at gas stations, probably for that reason particularly). Archive 2009-06-01

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