“My hour for tea is half-past five, and my buttered toast waits for nobody.”
Volume II [Tauchnitz, 1860] ( p. 226 https://books.google.com/books?id=xAm2X8YfpJIC&pg=PA226)
Also in The Secret Ingredient by Laura Schaefer [Simon & Schuster, 2012, ISBN 1-442-41960-1] ( p. 169 https://books.google.com/books?id=o1ctj37QuikC&pg=PA169)
Source: The Woman in White (1859)
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“I don't drink coffee I take tea my dear
I like my toast done on one side…"
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Phantasmagoria (1869)

After being asked "What does it take to be normal again, after having your humanity stripped away by the Nazis?" in an interview in O : The Oprah Magazine (November 2000)

“But though I repeated my plea, and waited on my knees for nearly an hour, there was no answer.”
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