Also in the Absurdities of Ravisius Textor, there is a long list of characters who came to the same magnificent end.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2 by Edgar Allan Poe

"Poor fellow," he thought, "some men with his years are like lions; one can tell nothing of their age except that they are full grown.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

Among a long list of churches, art galleries, and such things, visited by us in Venice, I shall mention only one--the church of Santa Maria dei Frari.
— from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain

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— from The Online World by Odd De Presno

A large lump of crystal, round and cut into facets, attracted my attention.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

This place, so named by the emigrants who had pitched their tents in that solitary wilderness, was a long line of cleared land, extending upon either side for some miles through the darkest and most interminable forest.
— from Roughing It in the Bush by Susanna Moodie

"A lone, lorn old critter," with whom everything "goes contrairie," was denied the solace of being counted the one-two-hundreth part of a man by a labor convention!
— from The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Ida Husted Harper

History has preserved a long list of consular senators sacrificed to his wanton suspicion, which sought out, with peculiar anxiety, those unfortunate persons connected, however remotely, with the family of the Antonines, without sparing even the ministers of his crimes or pleasures.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

O, give me always a little, lean, old, chopt, bald shot.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

Behind the Chamberlain a long line of couples formed; the signal was given and the dance began—he was its leader.
— from Pan Tadeusz Or, the Last Foray in Lithuania; a Story of Life Among Polish Gentlefolk in the Years 1811 and 1812 by Adam Mickiewicz

I say the Pope; for his coronation, the acknowledgment by the spiritual head of Christendom that he, a little lieutenant of Corsica, was the chief sovereign of Europe, from whatever motive it proceeded, was the most striking consummation of glory that could happen to an individual.
— from Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 2, No. 8, January, 1851 by Various

In enumerating the different species of Dystocia, we have mentioned a long list of causes, by which the process of labour might be rendered one of considerable danger either to the mother or her child; but, for the most part, they are not of very common occurrence, those only which are of trifling import being met with most frequently.
— from A System of Midwifery by Edward Rigby

17 30w “An excellent bibliography contains a long list of contemporary writings upon the war, which the ordinary reader would never know of.
— from The Book Review Digest, Volume 13, 1917 Thirteenth Annual Cumulation Reviews of 1917 Books by Various

The closer contact of all the members of the family often results in bringing all of them down to a low level of culture.
— from Rural Problems of Today by Ernest R. (Ernest Rutherford) Groves

The Chinese have a long list of culinary vegetables, and much of their agriculture consists in rearing them.
— from The Middle Kingdom, Volume 1 (of 2) A Survey of the Geography, Government, Literature, Social Life, Arts, and History of the Chinese Empire and its Inhabitants by S. Wells (Samuel Wells) Williams

A mountebank’s child who helps her father to earn shillings when she is six years old—a child that inherits a singing throat from a long line of choristers and learns to sing as it learns to talk, has a likelier beginning.
— from Daniel Deronda by George Eliot

The dogs are tied to a long length of chain stretched on the sand; they are coiled up after a long day, looking fitter already.
— from Scott's Last Expedition Volume I Being the journals of Captain R. F. Scott by Robert Falcon Scott

After two or three short stretches were made, Mark found himself half a mile to windward of a long line, or coast, of dark rock, that rose from twenty to twenty-five feet above the level of the water, and beyond all question in the open ocean.
— from The Crater; Or, Vulcan's Peak: A Tale of the Pacific by James Fenimore Cooper

Be so kind as to inform Elmsley of what he will hardly believe, that I am preparing materials for a letter to him, with a long list of commissions.
— from Private Letters of Edward Gibbon (1753-1794) Volume 2 (of 2) by Edward Gibbon

Its results are less striking and less complete than those of General Grant at Vicksburg, but then you have had greater difficulties to encounter, a longer line of communications to keep up, and a longer and more continuous strain upon yourself and upon your army.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman