For example, because you are a millionnaire, I told you that I exacted money, a lot of money, a deal of money.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

Mon pauvre ami , must I tell you that you have a terrible disease?"
— from The Moon and Sixpence by W. Somerset (William Somerset) Maugham

Monuments most to be noted are these: The parish church of St. Buttolph without Bishopsgate, in a fair churchyard, adjoining to the town ditch, upon the very bank thereof, but of old time inclosed with a comely wall of brick, lately repaired by Sir William Allen, mayor, in the year 1571, because he was born in that parish, where also he was buried.
— from The Survey of London by John Stow

and must I tell you, my lord what they wished us to cry as well?”
— from Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas

For a minute I thought you might be a dream too.”
— from The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

And he was, moreover, married at a well advanced maturity, in the year 1528, the three-and-thirtieth year of his age, upon his way home from Italy.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

To say nothing of ordinary mortals, even great men have not escaped errors and mistakes in their youth.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Answer me, I tell you.” “Candidates,” murmured Sunday, “are only required to answer eight out of the seventeen questions on the paper.
— from The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

Cneius Pompeius, the eldest son of Pompey the Great, was defeated at Munda, in the year B.C. 45, and the town destroyed.
— from The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 1 (of 6) by the Elder Pliny

An expression of the profoundest disgust gleamed for a moment in the young man’s refined face.
— from Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Here Murray communicated with Cardinal Tencin, the successor of Cardinal Fleury, in the management of the affairs of the Chevalier, and here he met the exiled Marquis of Tullibardine, who, notwithstanding his losses and misfortunes in the year 1715, was still sanguine of ultimate success.
— from Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745. Volume III. by Thomson, A. T., Mrs.

[10] The poet Davydd ab Gwilym, in a humorous account of his troubles in a mist, in the year 1340, says: Yr ydoedd ym mhob gobant Ellyllon mingeimion gant.
— from British Goblins: Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions by Wirt Sikes

The hunger for good books is more general and more insistent than you would dream.
— from The Haunted Bookshop by Christopher Morley

I said I had found out that Le Caron's camp did not exist in two years, did not have a meeting in two years, that the junior guardian given in the directory had not been in the town of Braidwood for over two years.
— from The Crime of the Century; Or, The Assassination of Dr. Patrick Henry Cronin by Henry M. Hunt

I never heard anything more ingenious than your suggestion, and I hope you may be able to prove it true.
— from Darwin and Modern Science by A. C. (Albert Charles) Seward

It may be said to be laid out on Bacon's rule: "There ought to be gardens for all months in the year, in which severally things of beauty may be then in season"; only for "year" we naturally must read "academic year.
— from The Charm of Oxford by J. (Joseph) Wells

If there are mercenaries in this year, then there will be left countries of the king, my lord.
— from Archæology and the Bible by George A. (George Aaron) Barton

In other words, two men might run exactly the same institution with the same machinery manufacturing the same article; one set of men will run it so there will not be any accidents maybe in ten years; the other set may have ten accidents in the first year by reason of the way they rush, and their carelessness, and the grade of men they hire and their failure to protect their machinery and all that sort of thing.
— from Proceedings, Third National Conference Workmen's Compensation for Industrial Accidents by National Conference on Workmen's Compensation for Industrial Accidents

Between 1895 and 1910 improvements, machinery, repairs, and maintenance in the yard amounted to $10,857,693, although there was a large navy-yard within seventy miles.
— from Defenseless America by Hudson Maxim