Or with what excitement she had watched each walk out, leaning on the arm of the man she had chosen and henceforth to be called his in ail things to the end while the loud crash of the wedding march closed their separate pasts with a single melody.
"The Mettle of the Pasture"
James Lane Allen
Indeed, does not the very fact of their recurrence, of them and of the hundreds of other types and temperaments, point implacably to the conclusion to which the historian, the philosopher and the biologist have driven us: that in the grip of an endless chain of pasts the human soul has no future?
"The Glands Regulating Personality"
Louis Berman, M.D.
For Broadway is a place for presents or futures; she has no welcome for pasts.
"Garrison's Finish A Romance of the Race-Course"
W. B. M. Ferguson