I have heard women say that they would go without necessary articles of clothing and other requirements just as long as possible and worry for days and weeks before they could summon courage to ask for money, because they dreaded a scene and the consequent discord in the home.
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden

For just as long a period I was pursued by evil slander, due to the unfavorable outcome of this case.
— from A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud

The simplicity of Partridge set Jones a laughing, and put a final end to his anger, which had indeed seldom any long duration in his mind; and, instead of commenting on his defence, he told him he intended presently to leave those lodgings, and ordered him to go and endeavour to get him others.
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

But we are not blissfully safe, in having of our endless joy, till we be all in peace and in love: that is to say, full pleased with God and with all His works, and with all His judgments, and loving and peaceable with our self and with our even-Christians and with all that God loveth, as love beseemeth.
— from Revelations of Divine Love by of Norwich Julian

[2161] A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword: and many men are as much galled with a calumny, a scurrilous and bitter jest, a libel, a pasquil, satire, apologue, epigram, stage-play or the like, as with any misfortune whatsoever.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Between these two races there is constant intercourse even now; for Irish seers say that they can behold the majestic, beautiful Sidhe , and according to them the Sidhe are a race quite distinct from our own, just as living and possibly more powerful.
— from The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by W. Y. (Walter Yeeling) Evans-Wentz

It is recorded by Canter Visscher 37 that, in the building of a house in Malabar, the carpenters open three or four cocoanuts, spilling the juice as little as possible, and put some tips of betel leaves into them.
— from Omens and Superstitions of Southern India by Edgar Thurston

He judges art like a parrot, without having ever stopped to evoke an image.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

Meantime the crowd is just as large, and perhaps more excited and impatient than before; for they would not understand these "asides" between the disciples and the Master, nor could they read as yet His compassionate and [275] benevolent thought.
— from Expositor's Bible: The Gospel of St Luke by Henry Burton

I know not if I have at all been able to hit the mean, and to succeed in making these letters, as it has been my object to make them, present, without offence or intrusion, a just, a living, and proportionate picture of the man as far as they will yield it.
— from The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. 23 by Robert Louis Stevenson

The highest questions cannot be solved by us, just as little as problems of the fourth dimension.
— from Zones of the Spirit: A Book of Thoughts by August Strindberg

Its master held it to a slow, even pace, so that the wounded boy was jolted as little as possible.
— from A Man Four-Square by William MacLeod Raine

Before that time, likely enough, the beasts owned both the day and the night, and you can imagine them denying man's superiority just as long as possible.
— from The Strength of the Pines by Edison Marshall

John and Lincoln are playing airs on the violin and flute; the other young men are on deck.
— from Audubon and His Journals, Volume 1 (of 2) by John James Audubon

Karmos was crowned, and then began that government whose morality and justice and love and purity have passed into the proverbs of my race.
— from The Great White Queen: A Tale of Treasure and Treason by William Le Queux

However," she continued, brightening up, "I can help her, for now I shall never marry; and my master here is just and liberal, and pays me sixty florins a year, which is high wages."
— from The Grey Woman and other Tales by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell