Half an hour, an hour, an hour and a half elapsed, and during this period of anguish, Edmond leaned over his friend, his hand applied to his heart, and felt the body gradually grow cold, and the heart’s pulsation become more and more deep and dull, until at length it stopped; the last movement of the heart ceased, the face became livid, the eyes remained open, but the eyeballs were glazed.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

Then as he played, Robello felt the great hall grow dim, until at last it seemed to fade away, and he saw naught but a vision: the deep dark forest just at dusk, and he was [Pg 107] once more the Night Wind caressing the Little Tree.
— from The Green Forest Fairy Book by Loretta Ellen Brady

The submarine boat went ahead very rapidly all this time, dropping down until at length it struck the bottom at a depth of several thousand feet.
— from The King of Gee-Whiz by Emerson Hough

From this casual coincidence, the word paganus carried with it, and began more and more steadily to suggest, the idea of a worshiper of the ancient divinities; until at length it suggested that idea so forcibly that people who did not desire to suggest the idea avoided using the word.
— from A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive by John Stuart Mill

There was something doing all day and every day until at last it seemed to me that I never saw my wife except at the other end of a dining table with a crowd of silly fools in between us.
— from The Shadow of the East by E. M. (Edith Maude) Hull

No, no, sweetheart; I have thought of it, night and day, until at last I see the truth.
— from The Thrall of Leif the Lucky: A Story of Viking Days by Ottilie A. (Ottilia Adelina) Liljencrantz