“When he got up, Varinka recognized him, and, looking at his ridiculous face, his crumpled overcoat, and his goloshes, not understanding what had happened and supposing that he had slipped down by accident, could not restrain herself, and laughed loud enough to be heard by all the flats: “‘Ha-ha-ha!’
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

“I flatter myself with a familiar acquaintance with Death, since I have already lived long enough to seem to be buried alive, &c.”
— from The Dance of Death Exhibited in Elegant Engravings on Wood with a Dissertation on the Several Representations of that Subject but More Particularly on Those Ascribed to Macaber and Hans Holbein by Francis Douce

A few years later she died, and left him a last letter ending, “the woman who loved you is dead....
— from Builders of United Italy by Rupert Sargent Holland

The writers of the foregoing age had at least learning equal to their genius; and, being often more able to explain the sentiments or illustrate the allusions of the ancients, than to exhibit their graces and transfuse their spirit, were, perhaps, willing sometimes to conceal their want of poetry by profusion of literature, and, therefore, translated literally, that their fidelity might shelter their insipidity or harshness.
— from The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes, Volume 04 The Adventurer; The Idler by Samuel Johnson

In fact, the original fen-loving Hollander has passed away, and another generation has sprung up, which prefers health and long life even to dollars and dyspepsia.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 385. November, 1847. by Various

But in any case it has already lasted long enough to do incalculable and almost ineradicable harm.
— from What Prohibition Has Done to America by Fabian Franklin

He had at last largely embraced the Positivism which acknowledges only that which is manifest, and [Pg 503] which neither accepts nor denies that which is hypothesis only.
— from Émile Zola, Novelist and Reformer: An Account of His Life & Work by Ernest Alfred Vizetelly

Twenty-four years later, he had already lived long enough to see his prescience in this respect to no little extent verified.
— from Benjamin Franklin; Self-Revealed, Volume 2 (of 2) A Biographical and Critical Study Based Mainly on his own Writings by Wiliam Cabell Bruce

While our King John was signing Magna Charta, Frederick had already lived long enough to comprehend, at least in outline, what is meant by the spirit of modern culture.
— from Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Complete Series I, II, and III by John Addington Symonds