| 1. | We should command an annuity of , livres. - from The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, Pere |
| 2. | An annuity is a very serious business it comes over and over every year, and there is no getting rid of it. - from Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen |
| 3. | "Certainly not but if you observe, people always live for ever when there is an annuity to be paid them and she is very stout and healthy, and hardly forty. - from Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen |
| 4. | It at that time advanced to government the sum of ,, for an annuity of ,, or fo. - from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith |
| 5. | Fairfax, the housekeeper, away to her friends at a distance but he did it handsomely, for he settled an annuity on her for life and she deserved it--she was a very good woman. - from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte |
| 6. | The bank fund at this time amounted to ,,, for which was paid an annuity or interest of ,d. - from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith |
| 7. | In , an act was passed for borrowing one million upon an annuity of fourteen per cent., or , a-year, for sixteen years. - from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith |
| 8. | He had reserved from his annuity his family papers, his library, composed of five thousand volumes, and his famous breviary. - from The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, Pere |
| 9. | In return for the capital which they advanced, they obtained, indeed, an annuity of the public funds, in most cases, of more than equal value. - from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith |