- 1920, Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Susanoo no mikoto:
- 部落の戦いは翌朝まで続いた。
- Buraku no tatakai wa yokuasa made tsuzuita.
- The fighting continued in the hamlet until the next morning.
- 1921, Katsunobu Itakura, Returning from the Spring Spears:
- 一週間ぐらい続くこともある。
- Isshūkan-gurai tsuzuku koto mo aru.
- Sometimes it continues for about a week.
- 1927, Shirō Kunieda, Somekichi no Shubon:
- これが四回も続いたのである。
- Kore ga yonkai mo tsuzuita no de aru.
- This happened four more times.
- 1942, Kōseki Satō, Silkworm and Son:
- 前橋の敷島公^園に続く清水の穴で釣った大鰻のことは、いまでも忘れられないでいる。
- Maebashi no shikishima kōen ni tsuzuku shimizu no ana de tsutta ōunagi no koto wa, ima demo wasurerarenai de iru.
- I still can't forget the time when I caught the giant eel in a pool of the springwater flowing into Shikishima Park in Maebashi.