This thought has been growing in my mind ever since the silver wedding of two dear friends: that quarter of a century has been but a prolonged courtship.
— from Hortus Vitae Essays on the Gardening of Life by Vernon Lee

the dinner-table I get in my most effective strokes.
— from Dear Enemy by Jean Webster

They were the well-known lines from Horace, which, at the time, I had great difficulty in construing, but which have remained graven in my memory ever since: [79]
— from My Autobiography: A Fragment by F. Max (Friedrich Max) Müller

I then told him quite frankly of the conviction which had been growing in my mind ever since the previous day, and had been confirmed by my conversations with Wilson and Haig, that Foch appeared to me to be the man who had the greatest grasp of the situation, and was most likely to deal with it with the intensest energy.
— from While I Remember by Stephen McKenna

I seem to be not so much thinking things out as reviving and developing things I've had growing in my mind ever since we met.
— from Marriage by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

I've always seen it grey in my mind, ever since one day—it was Fruen that said so....”
— from Wanderers by Knut Hamsun