| 1. | And sad posterity repeat the tale. - from The Iliad of Homer by Homer |
| 2. | And late posterity enjoy the deed. - from The Iliad of Homer by Homer |
| 3. | And late posterity record our praise. - from The Iliad of Homer by Homer |
| 4. | But at last posterity comes around to their way of thinking, abandons the old ruts and follows the trails they have blazed. - from How to Analyze People on Sight by Elsie Lincoln Benedict and Ralph Paine Benedict |
| 5. | Yea, more than equally, thought Ahab since both the ancestry and posterity of Grief go further than the ancestry and posterity of Joy. - from Moby Dick; or The Whale by Herman Melville |
| 6. | This their way is their folly yet their posterity approve their sayings. - from The King James Bible |
| 7. | Let our remotest posterity recall your achievements this day with pride. - from War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy |
| 8. | As I went with them the memory of my confident anticipations of a profoundly grave and intellectual posterity came, with irresistible merriment, to my mind. - from The Time Machine by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells |
| 9. | Some go further, and speak of a fair posterity in the third and fourth generation. - from The Republic by Plato |