xi. 186 that at this point of Ulysses' voyage Telemachus could only be between eleven and twelve years old.
— from The Odyssey Rendered into English prose for the use of those who cannot read the original by Homer

The letter is addressed by my mother to her second husband, Mr. Fairlie, and the date refers to a period of between eleven and twelve years since.
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

‘Under the impression,’ said Mr. Micawber, ‘that your peregrinations in this metropolis have not as yet been extensive, and that you might have some difficulty in penetrating the arcana of the Modern Babylon in the direction of the City Road,—in short,’ said Mr. Micawber, in another burst of confidence, ‘that you might lose yourself—I shall be happy to call this evening, and install you in the knowledge of the nearest way.’
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

* Elizabeth died one day in March in the year when her son George became eighteen, and the young man had but little sense of the meaning of her death.
— from Winesburg, Ohio: A Group of Tales of Ohio Small Town Life by Sherwood Anderson

For they would say, "Socrates, we have strong proof of this, that you were satisfied both with us and the city; for, of all the Athenians, you especially would never have dwelt in it if it had not been especially agreeable to you; for you never went out of the city to any of the public spectacles, except once to the Isthmian games, nor anywhere else, except on military service, nor have you ever gone abroad as other men do, nor had you ever had any desire to become acquainted with any other city or other laws, but we and our city were sufficient for you; so strongly were you attached to us, and so far did you consent to submit to our government, both in other respects and in begetting children in this city, in consequence of your being satisfied with it.
— from Apology, Crito, and Phaedo of Socrates by Plato

You left me, sweet, two legacies, — A legacy of love A Heavenly Father would content, Had He the offer of; You left me boundaries of pain Capacious as the sea, Between eternity and time, Your consciousness and me. III.
— from Poems by Emily Dickinson, Three Series, Complete by Emily Dickinson

“Ask something more,” he said presently; “it is my delight to be entreated, and to yield.”
— from Jane Eyre: An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë

Girls are commonly married between eight and twelve years of age; and a customary payment of Rs. 9 is made to the father of the bride, double this amount being given by a widower.
— from The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India, Volume 3 by R. V. (Robert Vane) Russell

And there was a certain man there, that had been eight and thirty years under his infirmity.
— from The Gospel of St. John by Joseph MacRory

“Are you ill, my beloved Eagle?” asked the youth, “or why is it that you do not eat?”
— from Zuñi Folk Tales by Frank Hamilton Cushing

“Yes,” said the boy eagerly; “and then you put down the other anchor.
— from Menhardoc by George Manville Fenn

Not Mère Tabeau, certainly; that old witch with the bleared eyes and the yellow teeth.
— from Jean Baptiste: A Story of French Canada by James Edward Le Rossignol

When it is ascertained that the cuckoo has arrived, parents give their children pence for luck, and they themselves take care not to leave their houses with empty pockets, for should they do so, those pockets, if the cuckoo is heard, will be empty all the year.
— from Welsh Folk-Lore a Collection of the Folk-Tales and Legends of North Wales by Elias Owen

Lord Elphinstone and his council decided as follows: That the native commissioned officers, present when the disarming took place, should be dismissed from the army, unless they could bring forward special proofs of fidelity—that of the native non-commissioned officers, the elder should be expelled, and the younger reduced to the ranks—that the sepoys or privates should not be expelled unless special grounds were assignable in their disfavor—that the 21st and 27th regiments should be formally erased from the Bombay army list, to mark with some stigma the conduct of those regiments—that two new regiments, to be called the 30th and 31st infantry, should be formed, with a rank lower in dignity than that of the other native infantry regiments of the Bombay army—that all the privates of the (late) 21st and 27th, with excepted instances, and such native officers as could clear themselves from ill charges, should form the bulk of the two new regiments—finally, that the vacancies in the list of officers (subadars, jemadars, havildars, naiks) should be filled by chosen sepoys who had worthily distinguished themselves in the campaigns of Rajpootana and Central India.
— from The History of the Indian Revolt and of the Expeditions to Persia, China and Japan, 1856-7-8 by George Dodd