“'Tain't much use for fools, you may lay to it—that, nor nothing,” cried Silver.
— from Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson

Lady Feng was, on account (of their arrival), likewise compelled to stay, and she heard Chia Jung take the lead and observe: "My father has sent me to tell you, uncle, that the gentlemen, have already decided that the whole extent of ground, starting from the East side, borrowing (for the occasion) the flower garden of the Eastern mansion, straight up to the North West, had been measured and found to amount in all to three and a half li; that it will be suitable for the erection of extra accommodation for the visiting party; that they have already commissioned an architect to draw a plan, which will be ready by to-morrow; that as you, uncle, have just returned home, and must unavoidably feel fatigued, you need not go over to our house, but that if you have anything to say you should please come tomorrow morning, as early as you can, and consult verbally with him."
— from Hung Lou Meng, or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel, Book I by Xueqin Cao

It was desolate enough, but it had had, we learnt, its modern uses; for five years back when a terrible hurricane had swept the island the whole village had been blown away, and this Indian ruin was for days the only shelter of the disconsolate villagers.
— from The American Egypt: A Record of Travel in Yucatan by Frederick J. Tabor Frost

"'Tain't much use for fools, you may lay to it—that, nor nothing," cried Silver.
— from Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson

'One day I made too free with a gentleman's gold watch on the Common; and they shut me up for five years in the Stone University, where I completed my education at the expense of the State.
— from City Crimes; Or, Life in New York and Boston by George Thompson

Ef I don’t have some of that fried deer’s meat fur [150] your supper to-night, like mother useter fix fur ye, my name ain’t Silas Hackett!”
— from The Kindred of the Wild: A Book of Animal Life by Roberts, Charles G. D., Sir

XVII ONE DOLLAR'S WORTH The judge of the United States court of the district lying along the Rio Grande border found the following letter one morning in his mail: JUDGE: When you sent me up for four years you made a talk.
— from Whirligigs by O. Henry

Then he said: "Now I'll tell you a good story to make up for fooling you."
— from Soldier Silhouettes on Our Front by William L. (William Le Roy) Stidger

I was Captain of a freighter before the Space Guard and the Transport Board took my ship away from me on trumped up charges, and then sent me up for five years of rehab.
— from The Universe — or Nothing by Meyer Moldeven

It appears very clear, then, that Oxford have profited by having five matches played on their own ground and making use, for five years, of Mr. C. D. Marsham, the best bowler they ever possessed, to say nothing of Mr. R. D. Walker.
— from Cricket by A. G. (Allan Gibson) Steel