“To be sure; rather than hanging about and dying of hunger, you ought to have gone to the farm long ago.”
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

They had reëntered a world which caused their faces to shine just as my father's face shone when he told of Grant at Vicksburg or recounted the days of his youth on The Old Wisconse.
— from A Daughter of the Middle Border by Hamlin Garland

65:20 There shall be no more there an infant of days, nor an old man who has not filled his days; for the child shall die one hundred years old, and the sinner being one hundred years old shall be accursed.
— from The World English Bible (WEB), Complete by Anonymous

The sense of power was undeniably pleasant; pleasanter still was the feeling that someone really needed her, that the happiness of the man at her side depended on her yes or no.
— from The Glimpses of the Moon by Edith Wharton

Her lavender embroideries were the only reminders of the existence of the departed Cherry, and their lavishness was a direct defiance of his years of effort in the curtailing of the tastes of his expensive wife.
— from Andrew the Glad by Maria Thompson Daviess

She had been very handsome, and her beauty lingered as the beauty of some flowers linger, in fainter tints and in less firm outlines; for she had never fallen from that “grace of God vouchsafed to children,” and therefore she had kept not only the enthusiasms of her youth, but that sweet promise of the “times of restitution” when the child shall die one hundred years old, because the child-heart shall be kept in all its freshness and trust.
— from The Man Between: An International Romance by Amelia E. Barr

I ended by having the honour of telling you, gentlemen, that in order to operate upon New York it would be necessary not to commence later than the first days of September; and, after this explanation, I said that General Washington, feeling the most perfect confidence in you, was very desirous of having your opinion upon the subject, and would only undertake what might appear to you most advantageous.
— from Memoirs, Correspondence and Manuscripts of General Lafayette by Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier, marquis de

What was there for her now but solitude and forgetfulness, all the delights of her youth over and done?
— from A Widow's Tale, and Other Stories by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

From that hand comes all his power; If it set him down one hour, Yea, one moment set him by, In that moment he would die, And the winter, ice, and snow Come on us, and never go.
— from The poetical works of George MacDonald in two volumes — Volume 2 by George MacDonald

“Ye locusts, worms, and caterpillars,” they say, “who have died or hanged yourselves, or have been killed by a falling log or devoured by a shark, go into the village.”
— from The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (Third Edition, Vol. 08 of 12) by James George Frazer

Wherefore, although born a Magee and baptised an Elmer, it was inevitable in this community that from the days of his youth onward he should have been called what they did call him.
— from Old Judge Priest by Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury) Cobb