And once a year, when I sit in my balcony in the sunshine, you must lie at my feet as becomes a shadow to do; for I must tell you I am going to marry the princess, and our wedding will take place this evening.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

The blackness in the sky yawned wide and breathed white fire.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Now this war began in the second year of the government of Florus, and the twelfth year of the reign of Nero.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

For if the first of these years be now current, it is present, but the other ninety and nine are to come, and therefore are not yet, but if the second year be current, one is now past, another present, the rest to come.
— from The Confessions of St. Augustine by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

This is a vain poetry: but I pray you, tell me, If there were propos'd me, wisdom, riches, and beauty, In three several young men, which should I choose? ANTONIO.
— from The Duchess of Malfi by John Webster

We do not inquire if we were born in the same year, the same month, or on the same day, but we desire only that the same year, the same month, and the same day may find us united in death.
— from Myths and Legends of China by E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers) Werner

The surprise among those who had brought in this seemingly young dancer was so great that no one laughed, no one said a word.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

It may be observable, too, that my Muse and my Spouse were equally prolifick; that the one was seldom the Mother of a Child, but in the same Year the other made me the Father of a Play: I think we had a Dozen of each Sort between us; of both which kinds, some died in their Infancy, and near an equal Number of each were alive when I quitted the Theatre—But it is no Wonder, when a Muse is only call'd upon by Family Duty, she should not always rejoice in the Fruit of her Labour.
— from An Apology for the Life of Mr. Colley Cibber, Volume 1 (of 2) Written by Himself. A New Edition with Notes and Supplement by Colley Cibber

He had read Renan at fourteen, finally discarding all religious beliefs in the same year.
— from Queed: A Novel by Henry Sydnor Harrison

He was also Captain of a vessel that took despatches from there to Boston in the same year.
— from The Loyalists of Massachusetts and the Other Side of the American Revolution by James Henry Stark

It will be well enough to bear that relationship to your husband, but fairly ludicrous to pretend to bear it to so young and fair a lady as yourself.”
— from Elsie and Her Loved Ones by Martha Finley

If it were not a shame to propose it, I should be inclined to shorten your visit.”
— from The Grim House by Mrs. Molesworth

Herder had good reason to resent the licence with which his private affairs had been obtruded on the public in Pater Brey , [139] but in the same year Goethe made him the main subject of another production which raises equally our astonishment at the manners of the time and at the wanton audacity of its author.
— from The Youth of Goethe by Peter Hume Brown

Mr. Charles C. Perkins, historian of the Handel and Haydn Society, whose foundation was coincident with the sixth society in Germany (Bremen, 1815), enumerates the following predecessors of that venerable organization: the Stoughton Musical Society, 1786; Independent Musical Society, "established at Boston in the same year, which gave a concert at King's Chapel in 1788, and took part there in commemorating the death of Washington (December 14, 1799) on his first succeeding birthday;" the Franklin, 1804; [Pg 264] the Salem, 1806; Massachusetts Musical, 1807; Lock Hospital, 1812, and the Norfolk Musical, the date of whose foundation is not given by Mr. Perkins.
— from How to Listen to Music, 7th ed. Hints and Suggestions to Untaught Lovers of the Art by Henry Edward Krehbiel

But in the same year he went to Buda-Pesth, Venice, and Constantinople.
— from The Life of George Borrow by Clement King Shorter

The more detailed answers: Our current official schedule is to do 36 Etext per month— I am TRYING to do 40 per month—but it is a tough go at the moment, with so many of our academic people having been out for the summer, and not really back in the saddle yet. .
— from Project Gutenberg Newsletters 1999 Thirteen Letters: December 1998 to December 1999 by Michael Hart