“We kind o' thought Christ went agin war an' pillage.”
James Russell Lowell (1819–1891) American poet, critic, editor, and diplomat
No. 3
The Biglow Papers (1848–1866), Series I (1848)
“[T]he Kirk of Scotland as at present guidit […] is a kind o' Papery wi' fifty Papes instead o' ane.”
— John Buchan, book Witch Wood
Source: Witch Wood (1927), Ch. XVII "Woodilee and Calidon"
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