I was in the service that I might have something to eat (and solely for that reason), and when last year a distant relation left me six thousand roubles in his will I immediately retired from the service and settled down in my corner.
— from Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Up and down, in every nook and corner of the roof and windows, last year’s empty birds nests perched.
— from Cruel As The Grave by Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth
"Siegfried is very proud of his room, and would like you to see it."
— from The Blower of Bubbles by Beverley Baxter
To illustrate: It was very rainy and wet two years ago; it was rainy and wet last year, but not so rainy and wet as the year before; there has been plenty of rain this summer, but not so much as during the two previous years.
— from The Story of a Country Town by E. W. (Edgar Watson) Howe
'Not by any means; I want to be run away with, like yourself.'
— from The International Monthly Magazine - Volume V - No II by Various
Thus we are told that Sisenand owned a plate of gold (no word is said of its design or style) five hundred pounds in weight, proceeding from the royal treasure of his race, and which, long years before, had been presented by the nobleman Accio to King Turismund.
— from The Arts and Crafts of Older Spain, Volume 1 (of 3) by Leonard Williams
I had an opportunity of reviewing them in 1863 in London, and again at Wimbledon in 1870; I saw them at the Review at Windsor last year, and I sincerely hope, if it may not be inconvenient to those members of the corps who have so many avocations, to see them before many weeks are over at the Review at Portsmouth.
— from Speeches and Addresses of H. R. H. the Prince of Wales: 1863-1888 by King of Great Britain Edward VII
ROSA. Are we less your children than these who have been picked up in the street?
— from Anathema: A Tragedy in Seven Scenes by Leonid Andreyev
"It is; see here," he replied, rapidly, and with lessened yet telling earnestness he reasoned and convinced her.
— from The Spider and the Fly; or, An Undesired Love by Charles Garvice
The great majority of the Southerners indicated their ready acceptance of the compromise as a “finality”; and radicals like Jefferson Davis, Robert Barnwell Rhett, and William L. Yancey retired from public life, either voluntarily or by compulsion of the people.
— from Expansion and Conflict by William Edward Dodd
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