“As long as you don't know whether they are in that room or not, you are uncertain what to do,” said Miss Pross to herself; “and you shall not know that, if I can prevent your knowing it; and know that, or not know that, you shall not leave here while I can hold you.”
— from A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

"For to thee shall be its turning," so long as you do not encourage it by giving it the rein, but bridle it by quenching its fire.
— from The City of God, Volume II by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

“But, as long as you don’t sing out for help, you’re all right—and I don’t think you will.
— from The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie

He immediately and quietly assumed the man’s place in the room; attended to every one’s wants, lessened the pretty maid-servant’s labour by waiting on empty cups and bread-and-butterless ladies; and yet did it all in so easy and dignified a manner, and so much as if it were a matter of course for the strong to attend to the weak, that he was a true man throughout.
— from Cranford by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

We can always remain so as long as you don’t— Lord Darlington .
— from Lady Windermere's Fan by Oscar Wilde

The Athenians would not let any of them go, but themselves called for heralds from the mainland, and after questions had been carried backwards and forwards two or three times, the last man that passed over from the Lacedaemonians on the continent brought this message: "The Lacedaemonians bid you to decide for yourselves so long as you do nothing dishonourable"; upon which after consulting together they surrendered themselves and their arms.
— from The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides

Fathom had previously reconnoitred the ground, and discovered some marks of inflammability in Mademoiselle's constitution; her beauty was not such as to engage her in those gaieties of amusement which could flatter her vanity and dissipate her ideas; and she was of an age when the little loves and young desires take possession of the fancy; he therefore concluded, that she had the more leisure to indulge these enticing images of pleasure that youth never fails to create, particularly in those who, like her, were addicted to solitude and study.
— from The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom — Complete by T. (Tobias) Smollett

And that God, who has been till now your Leader, and by whose goodwill I have myself been useful to you, will not put a period now to his providence over you, but as long as you desire to have him your Protector in your pursuits after virtue, so long will you enjoy his care over you.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

I think so too, so long as you don't have to pay for it in the morning.
— from A Doll's House : a play by Henrik Ibsen

I can see them now, with the thin legs of the small boys tottering under them, like a young donkey overridden by a coal-heaver.
— from We and the World: A Book for Boys. Part I by Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing

"So long as you don't have to eat salt horse, you ought to consider yourself lucky," retorted Rector.
— from The Pony Rider Boys on the Blue Ridge; or, A Lucky Find in the Carolina Mountains by Frank Gee Patchin

“I was wrong,” said the Egyptian, a little alarmed; “you do not understand me at all.”
— from The Little Minister by J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie

How could you do that looking as you do?
— from Corpus of a Siam Mosquito by Steven David Justin Sills

If you had heard nothing but hair-raising yarns about cemeteries and coffins and fearful diseases when you were very young, instead of listening to the fairy stories of Anderson and Grimm, you, too, would have lived all your days in a dread of the final hour and the gruesome day of Judgment.
— from The Story of Mankind by Hendrik Willem Van Loon

"I know almost as little as you do."
— from Off Course by Mack Reynolds

"You are compelling Ulster," he said, "to divorce her present husband, to whom she is not unfaithful, and you compel her to marry someone else whom she cordially dislikes, with whom she does not want to live; and you do it because she happens to be rich, and because her new partner has a large and ravenous offspring to provide for.
— from Ulster's Stand For Union by Ronald McNeill

“You are not sure that she is in London and you don't know when she is coming back,” he said, slowly.
— from Kent Knowles: Quahaug by Joseph Crosby Lincoln

What's more, I like a young doctor like yourself who thinks up ways of his own—" and, according to his daughter, he did take it, and was helped, saying always that what young doctors needed to do was to keep abreast of the latest medical developments, that medicine was changing, and perhaps it was just as well that old doctors died!
— from Twelve Men by Theodore Dreiser

The catastrophe of 1800, when Cadoudal and all his followers perished for our cause, will be repeated once again; and this time the fate of your kindred, of your lover and of your father, will be laid at your door, their blood will sully your hands.
— from A Sheaf of Bluebells by Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness