Ningún vecino de Orbajosa lo está, y menos yo.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

Bread, the staff of life, earn your bread, O tell me where is fancy bread, at Rourke’s the baker’s it is said.
— from Ulysses by James Joyce

Sooner or later every young man dropped into a set or circle, and frequented the few houses that were willing to harbor him.
— from The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams

It reflects disgrace on no one living, except you who use it.
— from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

These negroes know that man is revengeful, so they consider that nothing will more content the dead than to sacrifice all his enemies upon his grave, and, as man is curious and may not know how to entertain himself in the other life, each year they send him a newsletter under the skin of a beheaded slave.
— from The Social Cancer: A Complete English Version of Noli Me Tangere by José Rizal

The bank, instead of losing every year about two and a half per cent.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

Nearly all of these turn out laws every year; even when the legislatures meet biennially, they frequently have an annual session.
— from Popular Law-making A study of the origin, history, and present tendencies of law-making by statute by Frederic Jesup Stimson

list to my lay— Oh, list, ere your bumpers ye fill— Her Majesty's dead!—lack-a-day!
— from The Choice Humorous Works, Ludicrous Adventures, Bons Mots, Puns, and Hoaxes of Theodore Hook by Theodore Edward Hook

The sightseers of London eighty years ago must have looked on amused at what they considered the vagaries of those worthy folks.
— from Elizabeth Fry by Emma Raymond Pitman

In observations of invar which extended through six years, an elongation of one part in 100,000 was detected; subsequently its changes of length each year seemed less than one-millionth.
— from Inventors at Work, with Chapters on Discovery by George Iles

Then he watched with grinning superiority the fate of less experienced youngsters who followed his dare.
— from Skippy Bedelle His Sentimental Progress From the Urchin to the Complete Man of the World by Owen Johnson

On the contrary, it destroys hundreds, perhaps thousands, of lives every year.
— from The cremation of the dead considered from an aesthetic, sanitary, religious, historical, medico-legal, and economical standpoint by Hugo Erichsen

This coast has not had a survey since 1830, yet it changes more or less every year, and half a century makes every map and plan obsolete.
— from To The Gold Coast for Gold: A Personal Narrative. Vol. I by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

It reflects true disgrace on no one living, except you who use it.
— from Oliver Twist, Vol. 3 (of 3) by Charles Dickens

Carriages and horses had been ordered from the stable for our conveyance to Craigaderyn church, a three miles' drive through lovely scenery, and I resolved to accompany the sisters in the barouche, leaving whom fate directed to take charge of Lady Estelle; yet great was my contentment when she fell to the care of Sir Madoc in the family carriage.
— from Under the Red Dragon: A Novel by James Grant