| 1. | Moreover we are to consider, that from the presumed great longevity of whales, their probably attaining the age of a century and more, therefore at any one period of time, several distinct adult generations must be contemporary. - from Moby Dick; or The Whale by Herman Melville |
| 2. | Very orderly and methodical he looked, with a hand on each knee, and a loud watch ticking a sonorous sermon under his flapped waist-coat, as though it pitted its gravity and longevity against the levity and evanescence of the brisk fire. - from A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens |
| 3. | de Voltaire, have been dying all their life his was no longevity of a cracked pot this jovial old man had always had good health. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
