| 1. | But, up to that epoch of my life, I had lived in vain. - from The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| 2. | Above all, the warfare of Hester's spirit at that epoch was perpetuated in Pearl. - from The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| 3. | "I've had a splendid time," she concluded happily, "and I feel that it marks an epoch in my life. - from Anne Of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery |
| 4. | From the earliest epoch of her conscious life, she had entered upon this as her appointed mission. - from The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| 5. | At the epoch of her birth the Directory still existed. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 6. | And, with these words upon her lips, she yielded up her innocent life, putting an end to the first epoch of my own. - from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe |
| 7. | At that epoch there were no gas-jets in the streets of Paris. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 8. | was what the Restoration called "the epoch of the Spanish war.. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 9. | As Anne would have said at one time, it was "an epoch in her life," and she was deliciously athrill with the excitement of it. - from Anne Of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery |
| 10. | Insanity in individuals is something rare--but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs it is the rule. - from Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche |
| 11. | The great epochs of our life are at the points when we gain courage to rebaptize our badness as the best in us. - from Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche |
| 12. | These epochs are peculiar and mislead the politicians who desire to convert them to profit. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 13. | In the earlier epochs of history, we find almost everywhere a complicated arrangement of society into various orders, a manifold gradation of social rank. - from The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels |
| 14. | Certain slang phrases which participate in the two epochs and have at once the barbaric character and the metaphorical character resemble phantasmagories. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |