If anything could be more certain than that, in whatever bliss Doctor Unonius now inherits, forty years—or a thousand for that matter—count as one day, it is that throughout his life he detested stained-glass.
— from Corporal Sam and Other Stories by Arthur Quiller-Couch

Combined with the bellowing intonation it made the language of one’s childhood sound weirdly startling, and even if considered purely as a kind of unmeaning noise it filled you with astonishment at first.
— from Falk: A Reminiscence by Joseph Conrad

Are you able to state whether what you are telling us now is from your own knowledge, or is it confused with anything you may have seen in the movies?
— from Warren Commission (12 of 26): Hearings Vol. XII (of 15) by United States. Warren Commission

"Did you tell him that the U.S. Army of Occupation had sent machine guns to the number of three thousand two hundred and fifty to the Ukraine?" "No. I followed your instructions to the dot.
— from The Love Chase by Felix Grendon