Now, comic fancy is indeed a living energy, a strange plant that has nourished on the stony portions of the social soil, until such time as culture should allow it to vie with the most refined products of art.
— from Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic by Henri Bergson

Those who were most ill needed special care, lest a change for the worse might come unnoticed; and besides all this a laundry was set up, so that a constant supply of fresh linen might be at hand.
— from The Red Book of Heroes by Mrs. Lang

I suggest for your consideration the propriety of making without further delay some specific application of the funds derived under the will of Mr. Smithson, of England, for the diffusion of knowledge, and which have heretofore been vested in public stocks until such time as Congress should think proper to give them a specific direction.
— from State of the Union Addresses (1790-2006) by United States. Presidents

Mr. Firth is a minute, russet-featured gentleman; is precise in dress, neat in taste; gets over the ground quietly and quickly; has a full, clear, dark eye; has a youthful clerical countenance; has given way a little to facial sadness; is sharp and serious; has a healthy biliary duct, and has carried dark hair on his head ever since we knew him; is clear-sighted, shy unless spoken to, and cautious; is free and generous in expression if trotted out a little; is no bigot; dislikes fierce judgments and creed-reviling; likes visiting folk who are well off; wouldn't object to tea, crumpet, and conversation with the better end of his flock any day; visits fairly in his district, and says many a good word to folk in poverty, but would look at a floor before going down upon it like his predecessor; thinks that flags and boards should be either very clean or carpeted before good trousers touch them;
— from Our Churches and Chapels: Their Parsons, Priests, & Congregations Being a Critical and Historical Account of Every Place of Worship in Preston by Atticus

The orchestra played and the artists sang, and then there was a little rustle and hush of expectation as they brought in a box or platform for [25] the child to stand upon so that all could see her.
— from Camilla: A Tale of a Violin Being the Artist Life of Camilla Urso by Charles Barnard

If intuition contains factors additional to the concepts through which it is interpreted, these factors must remain outside the realm of mathematical science, until such time as conceptual analysis has proved itself capable of further extension.
— from A Commentary to Kant's 'Critique of Pure Reason' by Norman Kemp Smith

His wife, being touched also, has been to see us several times; and certainly the Lord will comfort us about His people.
— from Journal of Jasper Danckaerts, 1679-1680 by Jasper Danckaerts

These things are easily complied with now: and such as will suffer upon such things are condemned.
— from A Hind Let Loose Or, An Historical Representation of the Testimonies of the Church of Scotland for the Interest of Christ. With the True State Thereof in All Its Periods by Alexander Shields