| 1. | It is not the strength, but the duration of great sentiments that makes great men. - from Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche |
| 2. | The duration of each lesson was measured by the clock, which at last struck twelve. - from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte |
| 3. | There must remain with me a certain control over the extent and duration of my repose. - from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe |
| 4. | Methought I was immersed in a cataleptic trance of more than usual duration and profundity. - from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe |
| 5. | The duration of my absence was left to my own choice a few months, or at most a year, was the period contemplated. - from Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft (Godwin) Shelley |
| 6. | In Scotland, there is no general law which regulates universally the duration of apprenticeships. - from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith |
| 7. | In France, the duration of apprenticeships is different in different towns and in different trades. - from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith |
| 8. | The ancients believed that the duration of human existence and the destinies of mortals were regulated by three sister-goddesses, called Clotho, Lachesis, and Atropos, who were the daughters of Zeus and Themis. - from Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome by E.M. Berens |
| 9. | The action is hurried on with the most vehement spirit, and its whole duration employs not so much as fifty days. - from The Iliad of Homer by Homer |