Nothing was too small to receive attention, if a supervising eye could suggest improvements likely to conduce to the common welfare. Mr. Gordon Burnage, for instance,personally visited dust-bins and back premises, accompanied by a sort of village bailiff, going his round like a commanding officer doing billets.
1956 [1880],Johanna Spyri,Heidi, translation of original by Eileen Hall, page84:
'There's a boy here who wants to speak to Miss Clarapersonally,' he announced.
Personally I felt shy and uncomfortable at this obsequious adoration, and I read the same feeling in the faces of Roxton and Summerlee, but Challenger expanded like a flower in the sun.
As a person.
I like youpersonally, but as a colleague you have yet to do well.
