In the past year, filed as it had been with her literary ambitions and endeavors, she had neglected her music; but she took her violin from the box, hunted the cake of resin, tuned the strings, and, when she heard him come into the kitchen and sit down at the table, seated herself upon the front doorstep and began to play.
"Lonesome Land"
B. M. Bower
Whether it be the partiality of an old man to his youngest child I know not; but they appear to me the best of all my endeavors in this kind.
"Early Theories of Translation"
Flora Ross Amos
She used her utmost endeavors to eat some dinner.
"In Wild Rose Time"
Amanda M. Douglas