Books are all annuals; and, to revive Scott, you must annihilate the existing generation of writers, which is legion.
"Memoirs of James Robert Hope-Scott, Volume 2"
Robert Ornsby
Outside, the environment flattered or rewarded us with a garden of laurel and other evergreens, and with flower-beds where the annuals were beginning to show the gardener's designs in their sprouting seeds.
"Roman Holidays and Others"
W. D. Howells
Oppressed by dread, this young scoundrel was not capable of doing his best work at the semi-annuals.
"Dave Darrin's First Year at Annapolis"
H. Irving Hancock