You cannot write a good letter even without some knowledge of this study.
— from The Bobbin Boy or, How Nat Got His learning by William Makepeace Thayer

Genevieve laughed, even while she made a wry face.
— from The Sunbridge Girls at Six Star Ranch by Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman) Porter

When I learned that Queen Mary had deceased, and that our gracious Lady Elizabeth was set on the Throne in her Stead, I thought it hard to be still kept from Home, where Terror and Tears had {239} now given Place to Joy and Gladness.
— from The Colloquies of Edward Osborne, Citizen and Clothworker of London by Anne Manning

The musicians struck their instruments to a wild Ionic air, while the youngest voice in the band chanted forth, in Greek words, as numbers, the following strain:— THE EVENING HYMN OF THE HOURS I Through the summer day, through the weary day, We have glided long; Ere we speed to the Night through her portals grey, Hail us with song!— With song, with song, With a bright and joyous song; Such as the Cretan maid, While the twilight made her bolder, Woke, high through the ivy shade, When the wine-god first consoled her.
— from The Last Days of Pompeii by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

And to prevent any conversation which may be understood by themselves, and not by the guard, let every word spoken by them be noted.
— from The Border Spy; or, The Beautiful Captive of the Rebel Camp A Story of the War by Harry Hazelton

The nondescript craft hampered their movements, could not be controlled, and if once it got loose everything was sure to be lost.
— from The Romance of the Colorado River The Story of its Discovery in 1840, with an Account of the Later Explorations, and with Special Reference to the Voyages of Powell through the Line of the Great Canyons by Frederick Samuel Dellenbaugh

It is lined with crimson satin, edged with gold lace enriched with sequins, and the opening is connected with bands of satin finished with lace insertion.
— from The Evolution of Fashion by Florence Mary Gardiner