Annuity to be paid at the two Feasts equally as above said or else to distrain on the Ground if she be not paid after fourteen days at Lindly as the other some is out of the said Land Item I give to my Servant John Upton the Annuity of Forty Shillings out of my said Farme during his life (if till then my Servant) to be paid on Michaelmas day in Lindley each year or else after fourteen days to distrain Now for my goods I thus dispose them First I give an C'th pounds to Christ Church in Oxford where I have so long lived to buy five pounds Lands per Ann.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Hundreds, yes thousands of people, disappear in London every year, and many of them are never heard of again.
— from The Mystery of Lincoln's Inn by Robert Machray

Business to the extent of millions of dollars is lost every year among retail shoe stores, due to this one cause.
— from Retail Shoe Salesmanship by Frank Butterworth

Over fifty million dollars is lost every year on American farms because implements and machinery are not properly housed.
— from Implement sheds by K. J. T. (Karl John Theodore) Ekblaw

The day is long enough; you will have time enough for everything; in truth, do not be so severe with yourself.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 05, April 1867 to September 1867 by Various

Although an empirical correspondence between the great scarlatina periods and a series of dry years has not been made out without important exceptions, hitherto unexplained, yet there is a very obvious correspondence between the great rise of scarlatina deaths in London every year and the season of late autumn, which is the season when the ground-water touches its lowest level or begins to rise therefrom to the high water-mark of spring.
— from A History of Epidemics in Britain, Volume 2 (of 2) From the Extinction of Plague to the Present Time by Charles Creighton

Say that his description of her beauty, and of her unhappy plight, hath so wrought upon your mind that you were deep in love ere you e'en saw her.
— from Captain Ravenshaw; Or, The Maid of Cheapside. A Romance of Elizabethan London by Robert Neilson Stephens