Such a man usually attains his end; among other consummations, he is apt to marry a rare, beautiful girl who hates him.
"A Forest Hearth: A Romance of Indiana in the Thirties"
Charles Major
The time for such events appears to us immense, for millions of years are required for the sediments to grow in thickness, and the geotherms to move upwards; but vast as it is, it is but a moment in the life of the parent radioactive substances, whose atoms, hardly diminished in numbers, pursue their changes while the mountains come and go, and the 133 rudiments of life develop into its highest consummations.
"The Birth-Time of the World and Other Scientific Essays"
J. (John) Joly
Again while his new friend delivered himself our own tried in vain to place him; he indulged in plenty of pleasant, if rather restlessly headlong sound, the confessed incoherence of a happy mortal who had always many things "on," and who, while waiting at any moment for connections and consummations, had fallen into the way of talking, as they said, all artlessly, and a trifle more betrayingly, against time.
"The Finer Grain"
Henry James