And thereafter came a million years, maybe, of silence; with ever the birthing and marrying and dying of those lonesome humans.
"The Night Land"
William Hope Hodgson
And then, to the wonder of all, the Earth-Current had put forth a new power; so that young people ceased to be old over-soon; and there was happiness and a certain joy in the living; and a strange birthing of children, such as had not been through half a million years.
"The Night Land"
William Hope Hodgson
But then, as I have had a sort of family of my own, since that day, why, the less need, you know, to be birthing myself again in any other man's hammock."
"The Red Rover"
James Fenimore Cooper