Perhaps she had already been out and had taken this method of detaining us, knowing that we would wait to watch her.
— from Gold of the Gods by Arthur B. (Arthur Benjamin) Reeve

"(6) To employ every constitutional means to excite a spirit of intellectual activity and enquiry, and to satisfy it as far as possible by aiding in the establishment and selection of school libraries and other means of diffusing useful knowledge.
— from Egerton Ryerson and Education in Upper Canada by J. Harold (John Harold) Putman

Each Part will be sold for Three Shillings , thus making the price of a quarto volume, of eight hundred ample pages, only Thirty-six Shillings ; a price very considerably lower than that of any similar publication of the day, and which, when the quantity of Matter in each volume, the quality of Paper and Printing, the numerous Engravings, and the ability of the Articles, are taken into account, must be allowed to place the Work in a highly advantageous point of view, even at a period when the modes of diffusing useful knowledge at a moderate expense have so justly engaged the attention of the Public.
— from Lives of Eminent Zoologists, from Aristotle to Linnæus with Introductory remarks on the Study of Natural History by William MacGillivray