In that month Jane was at Godmersham again, and though she did not know it, this was the last visit she would pay before the death of Mrs. Edward Knight, which occurred in the following October, at the birth of her eleventh child; Jane seems to have noticed her sister-in-law was not in good health, she says, “I cannot praise Elizabeth’s looks, but they are probably affected by a cold.”
— from Jane Austen and Her Times by G. E. (Geraldine Edith) Mitton

It was necessary to step along briskly if they meant to accomplish the walk which Miss Todd had in her mind's eye, and anybody who has ever acted leader to a party of twenty-four knows the difficulty of making everyone keep the pace.
— from A harum-scarum schoolgirl by Angela Brazil

This attorney began the world with nothing, but he contrived to scrape together a good deal of money, everybody knew how.
— from The Parent's Assistant; Or, Stories for Children by Maria Edgeworth

“From the time of the discovery of Rose Standish’s corpse, until Mattus and I had rolled the bed toward the elevator, the deportment of William, the orderly, was most praiseworthy and the demeanor of Miss Evelina Kerr astonishingly calm.
— from The Hospital Murders by Means Davis

It might even now be made most charmingly effective, if the singers of the choir had only a director of more extensive knowledge.
— from Louis Spohr's Autobiography Translated from the German by Louis Spohr

The teachers in other departments must aid in this task or we fail; but where the whole duty of making expression keep pace with thought and with life is given to them, they will be forced either to overload, or to neglect all but the little arcs that bound their subjects.
— from College Teaching Studies in Methods of Teaching in the College by Paul Klapper