He had no particular desire for her, he could not even remember what she looked like, but now he wanted to speak to her and it irritated him that her late arrival home meant this day would be full of unease and disorder right to its very end.
— from The Trial by Franz Kafka

“Not at all,” cried d’Artagnan, who was anxious the matter should be accomplished; “on the contrary, I think it very easy.
— from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

“Oh, that is very easily arranged.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

The Irregular Verb eō — Indirect Statements 177-180 LXXIII.
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

Often during these excursions, Herbert talked with Gideon Spilett on the incident of the bullet, and the deductions which the engineer drew from it, and one day—it was the 26th of October—he said—“But, Mr. Spilett, do you not think it very extraordinary that, if any castaways have landed on the island, they have not yet shown themselves near Granite House?” “Very astonishing if they are still here,” replied the reporter, “but not astonishing at all if they are here no longer!”
— from The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne

“That is very easily said,” answered the Raven.
— from Andersen's Fairy Tales by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

[260] Slowly it dawned upon Johnny that here was something quite marvelous; well worth watching to its very end; a battle between the brains of a boy and the brawn of a black rabble.
— from The Rope of Gold A Mystery Story for Boys by Roy J. (Roy Judson) Snell

We find, therefore, that in very early days the practice of accepting money in lieu of personal service crept in, and enabled the Norman kings to fight their battles with hired mercenaries.
— from A History of the British Army, Vol. 1 First Part—to the Close of the Seven Years' War by Fortescue, J. W. (John William), Sir

We are sprung from the sea; a county of seaports is our dwelling-place, and the sea itself our ample dominion, covered throughout its vast extent with our fellow subjects in their "floating cities.
— from The Danes in Lancashire and Yorkshire by S. W. Partington

Lastly, they think it very extraordinary that Aaron, who was the most guilty of all, should have been rewarded for that very crime for which the rest underwent so dreadful a punishment, by being created high-priest, and go to offer sacrifice at the high altar, while the bodies of three and twenty thousand of his slaughtered brethren lay bleeding round him.
— from The Works of Voltaire, Vol. IV of XLIII. Romances, Vol. III of III, and A Treatise on Toleration. by Voltaire

"This is very extraordinary!" exclaimed Mr. Bragg, when he had read the clause seven times, each perusal contributing to leave the case still clearer in favour of his employer, the individual, and still stronger against the hoped-for future employers, the people.
— from Home as Found Sequel to "Homeward Bound" by James Fenimore Cooper

In a moment, however, the cart luckily was caught between two bushes, and there it stuck, while the dogs rushed to the foot of the nearest apple-tree, to leap and howl there in vain excitement, while the peaceful cat smiled at them in safety from the topmost bough.
— from Five Mice in a Mouse-trap, by the Man in the Moon. by Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards