Persons who wear glasses for reading should be careful to use them while reading music, and good light is necessary to avoid any undue strain.
— from A Practical Physiology: A Text-Book for Higher Schools by Albert F. (Albert Franklin) Blaisdell

A great length is needed to form the close network which is spread over the thatch, as each piece measures about fifty yards.
— from The Aran Islands by J. M. (John Millington) Synge

But something more than a great leader is needed to create a Republic.
— from A Short History of Spain by Mary Platt Parmele

A galley lay inside, nuzzling the harbour wall, and presently the ladder of ropes was let down from the top of the nearest fort, and a crew came down to man the oars.
— from The Lost Continent by Charles John Cutcliffe Wright Hyne

In many cases the hewing of the trees at ground level is not to be thought of.
— from On the Edge of the Primeval Forest Experiences and Observations of a Doctor in Equatorial Africa by Albert Schweitzer

Speaking of the Maha-Radza-Weng, and other books which he had ordered to be brought for the Envoy, the King said: "The mass of earth, water, and air which composes the Great Island [the earth] and Mount Myen-mo is vast, but learning is more stupendous still, and great labor is necessary to acquire it.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 120, October, 1867 A Magazine of Literature, Science, Art, and Politics by Various