The twigs overhung the current thickly, and from distance to distance a large limb of some tree projected rigidly over the stream.
— from Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

They had filled his hair quite solid with mud; they had rolled him up and down on knobby pebbles; they had sat upon him in a long line of six; they had thumped him and bumped him till he could hardly breathe; and though he did not understand their language, he was almost sure that the names the Neolithic ladies called him were not ladylike.
— from Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling

Just emerged from a long line of snowdrifts and stepped at this little country tavern, supped and am now roasting over a hot stove.
— 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

Bede's narrative is taken from an extant ancient Latin life of St. Fursa (or Fursey), the “libellus de vita ejus conscriptus” to which he refers several times ( v. infra ).
— from Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England by Bede, the Venerable, Saint

Shall I, the terror of this sinful town, Care, if a liveried lord or smile or frown?
— from An Essay on Man; Moral Essays and Satires by Alexander Pope

In short, the principle of vicarious suffering is commonly understood and practised by races who stand on a low level of social and intellectual culture.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

The other Neolithic ladies at once knocked him down and sat on him in a long line of six, while Teshumai pulled his hair.
— from Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling

They are industrious, prudent, and economical; yet after a long life of striving, old age finds them still poor.
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden

I am under the most cruel apprehensions lest Lord Orville should suppose my being on the gallery-stairs with Sir Clement was a concerted scheme, and even that our continuing so long together in his chariot was with my approbation, since I did not say a word on the subject, nor express my dissatisfaction at the coachman’s
— from Evelina, Or, the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World by Fanny Burney

Even so, he left the ground car a mile from the tall and looming lacework of steel.
— from The Hate Disease by Murray Leinster

Just emerged from a long line of snow drifts and stopped at this little country tavern, supped, and am now roasting over the hot stove."
— from Susan B. Anthony Rebel, Crusader, Humanitarian by Alma Lutz

This appears to be a lumber loft of some sort; it cannot contain valuable merchandise, or the opening through which I made an entrance would have been closed.
— from Voyages and Travels of Count Funnibos and Baron Stilkin by William Henry Giles Kingston

All through the long and laborious life of Smollett, the lessons of Love bore fruit.
— from Tobias Smollett by William Henry Oliphant Smeaton

He attacked the nuts and sawdust which had come back and settled down again in company with a large lump of some unidentified material, as if he were bucking center.
— from The Prince and Betty by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse

" He cast his eyes over a long line of straw mattresses at the end of the room; the two last were empty, but covered with blood.
— from The Invasion of France in 1814 by Erckmann-Chatrian

Soon a long line of soldiers appeared and passed the camp bearing in their midst a covered chair.
— from Camps and Trails in China A Narrative of Exploration, Adventure, and Sport in Little-Known China by Roy Chapman Andrews

Above this coliseum of monstrosities rose a long line of sharp, jagged needles, like a vast chevaux-de-frise , forbidding escape.
— from Overland: A Novel by John William De Forest

A little later on, she must be apprised that she too may become a mother , and that that would be a great disgrace for one so young and not married.
— from Femina, A Work for Every Woman by John A. (John Alexander) Miller