Nothing of that wonderful promise, to read him by his form, as you are like to find him in the proof of his valour.
— from Twelfth Night; Or, What You Will by William Shakespeare

Looking all around him with great attention, he then went to the river's edge, and flung it in as far, and yet as lightly as he could.
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

For as yet all lies so solid, peaceable; and doubts not, as was said, that it will endure while Time runs.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

I thought so noble a creature would have power to attach you for a year at least!’
— from The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë

Nay, the cunning slut pretended to hearken to me, and to despise all wantonness of the flesh; and yet at last broke out at a window two pair of stairs: for I began, indeed, a little to suspect her, and had locked her up carefully, intending the very next morning to have married her up to my liking.
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

“Yes; but without fail.” “Ah, you are laughing at me; send tomorrow at twelve, and the bank shall be notified.”
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

,” said Debray, “you have a splendid fortune, an income of about 60,000 livres a year, which is enormous for a woman who cannot keep an establishment here for a year, at least.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

I could not help wondering that in rich England, the home of the oppressed and the free, a young and lovely woman like the fair author of those pages should be obliged to thus pawn her jewels—her marriage gift—for the means to procure her bread!
— from The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales With Condensed Novels, Spanish and American Legends, and Earlier Papers by Bret Harte

To avoid Nicknames and Witticisms, we call ourselves The Hebdomadal Meeting: Our President continues for a Year at least, and sometimes four or five: We are all Grave, Serious, Designing Men, in our Way: We think it our Duty, as far as in us lies, to take care the Constitution receives no Harm, — Ne quid detrimenti Res capiat publica — To censure Doctrines or Facts, Persons or Things, which we don't like; To settle the Nation at home, and to carry on the War abroad, where and in what manner we see fit: If other People are not of our Opinion, we can't help that.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

Pondering these and other things, Cicely drove along the country lanes, between banks and hedges bright with the growth of early summer, through woods in which pheasants, reared at great expense that her father and brothers and their friends might kill them, called one another hoarsely, as if in a continual state of gratulation at having for a year at least escaped their destined end; between fields in which broods of partridges ran in and out of the roots of the green corn; across a bridge near which was a deep pool terrifically guarded by a notice-board against those who might have disturbed the fat trout lying in its shadows; across a gorse-grown common, sacred home of an old dog-fox that had defied the South Meadshire hounds for five seasons; and so, out of her father's property on to that of Jim Graham, in which blood relations of the Kencote game and vermin were protected with equal care, in order that the Grahams might fulfil the destiny appointed for them and the Clintons and the whole race of squirearchy alike.
— from The Squire's Daughter: Being the First Book in the Chronicles of the Clintons by Archibald Marshall

Do go and find somebody who is fresher and younger and less--tired than I am."
— from Sylvia Arden Decides by Margaret Piper Chalmers

It will keep us busy for a year, at least, showing her all the wonderful things in Oz." Glinda smiled.
— from The Scarecrow of Oz by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

Lionel, who was very fond of the art, and indeed painted well for a youthful amateur, listened with great delight.
— from What Will He Do with It? — Complete by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

There she'll stand shivering and shaking, white-sick with fright, waiting for her cue, and when she gets it, she skips on and waltzes through her scene as if she'd been at it for a year at least.
— from Life on the Stage: My Personal Experiences and Recollections by Clara Morris

All the distance you have climbed in the ox-sleds, by the funicular, and afoot drops away perpendicularly at your feet, and you are looking down, straight down, and still down, to what seem fairy tree-tops and a wonderful picture valley through which a tumbling ribbon of water goes foaming to the sea.
— from The Ship-Dwellers: A Story of a Happy Cruise by Albert Bigelow Paine

A more valid objection would be that the measure was not more complete; and the University system will certainly be crippled and impotent unless residence for a year at least in it be essential to a University degree.
— from Thomas Davis, Selections from his Prose and Poetry by Thomas Osborne Davis

To Egypt, Joseph repeated, and memories awoke in him of the months he spent in Alexandria, of the friends he left there, of the Greek that he had taken so much trouble to perfect himself in, and the various philosophies which he thought enlarged his mind, though he pinned his faith to none; and reading in his face the pleasure given by the word Egypt, Nicodemus pressed him to come with him: all those who are suspected of sympathy with Jesus, he said, will do well to leave Judea for a year at least.
— from The Brook Kerith: A Syrian story by George Moore

Had they possessed mortars with which to reply to our vertical fire, they say they would have held out for another year at least, "but the army of defence, with a deep seaway in its rear, with one flank menaced by a fleet, and the other by the works at Inkerman, so that in reality its centre was only effective, could not strategically resist an army of attack which had such advantages of position."
— from The British Expedition to the Crimea by Russell, William Howard, Sir