Thirteen year old August is the eldest; he begins to pull the kite downward. Like his sister and brother, June and July, he has been named after the month in which he was born.

Reminded of some of his past opinions about the coalition, he smiled and said what amounted to: That was then; this is now.

Jane has been studying case in Caucasian languages.  Latin is a language that employs case.

1. Intended as ironic, this remark empurpled the anti-anti-Communists who predominated on the intellectual left. —Christopher Hitchens. Susan Sontag: Remembering an intellectual heroine. http://www.slate.com/id/2111506