“In an hour’s time.” “Oh, for mercy’s sake!” “Well, let me drink my coffee, anyway.”
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

The host will tell you I have three or four more, so that you will not inconvenience me in any way.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

All that we have a right to expect is, that those groups which have, within known geological periods, undergone much modification, should in the older formations make some slight approach to each other; so that the older members should differ less from each other in some of their characters than do the existing members of the same groups; and this by the concurrent evidence of our best palaeontologists is frequently the case.
— from The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, 6th Edition by Charles Darwin

Among the extraordinary acts of power executed by the former we may remark the foundation of twenty-nine cities, and the distribution of three or four millions sterling to his troops.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

Napoleon knew also that she had been the mistress of Ouvrard, the banker, who in his Spanish speculations a few months earlier had involved the Bank of France to the tune of four millions sterling, and forced Napoleon to make a premature peace after Austerlitz.
— from Napoleon's Letters to Josephine, 1796-1812 For the First Time Collected and Translated, with Notes Social, Historical, and Chronological, from Contemporary Sources by Emperor of the French Napoleon I

"No, no, we want nothing but to be left to ourselves for ten or fifteen minutes," said Ashwoode, placing a piece of money upon the table.
— from The Cock and Anchor by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

Thirty or forty minutes, something like that.
— from Warren Commission (12 of 26): Hearings Vol. XII (of 15) by United States. Warren Commission

On the centre of the lake were three or four motionless sampans; in each were two or three Chinamen; but the fishermen were huge cormorants.
— from When We Were Strolling Players in the East by Louise Jordan Miln

When prisoners, and solicited by the Americans to join their standard and settle among them, not one individual violated the oath he had taken, or forgot his fidelity or allegiance, a virtue not generally observed on that occasion, for many soldiers of other corps joined the Americans, and sometimes, indeed, entered their service in a body."
— from The Clan Fraser in Canada: Souvenir of the First Annual Gathering by Alexander Fraser