sort of

There was a sort of music in his prose, not indeed, arresting, but perhaps, I thought, haunting, and laden, perhaps, with meanings as deep as Mallarmé's own. 🔊

He had a sort of weak doggedness which I could not but admire. 🔊

It was the sort of thing that in old days he would have said for effect; but it carried conviction now. 🔊

You've gone on believing I'm above that sort of thing. 🔊

I glanced at the writing on itsome sort of gibberish, apparently. 🔊

"He's a vulgarian, he's a swell mobs-man, he's the sort of man who hangs about the corridors of trains going to the Riviera and steals ladies' jewel-cases. 🔊

"A sort of uniform?" 🔊

D.K.F. 78,910that sort of thing?" 🔊

The men at the round desk in the middle seemed to have a sort of panic whenever I went to make inquiries." 🔊

"Not very easy reading. Some sort of phonetic spelling. All the modern books I saw were phonetic." 🔊

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