1 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.
2 An annuity is a very serious business; it comes over and over every year, and there is no getting rid of it.
3 'David had bought an annuity for himself with his money, I know,' said she, by and by.
4 I had often heard him complain of the disproportion of his rank with his fortune; and I advised him to invest all he had in an annuity.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 18. The Treasure. 5 He had reserved from his annuity his family papers, his library, composed of five thousand volumes, and his famous breviary.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 18. The Treasure. 6 The calculations of various life assurance and annuity offices, among other figures which cannot go wrong, have established the fact.
7 Gillenormand found himself a widower, there remained to him just sufficient to live on, by sinking nearly the whole of it in an annuity of fifteen thousand francs, three-quarters of which would expire with him.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER V—BASQUE AND NICOLETTE