They then decimated all the inhabitants, both ecclesiastics and laymen, leaving only every tenth person alive; so that they put 7236 persons to death, and left only four monks and 800 laymen alive, after which they confined the archbishop in a dungeon, where they kept him close prisoner for several months.
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

She had fine black eyebrows and long lashes—so long, that when they lay on her cheeks you positively caught the light in them, someone or other had told her.
— from Bliss, and Other Stories by Katherine Mansfield

Could it simply be for lolling in bed, eating and lying, lying endlessly?
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Normally, a BITNET email address looks like this: NOTRBCAT@INDYCMS The part to the left of the @-character is the users' mailbox code.
— from The Online World by Odd De Presno

This will be enjoying a life like that of heaven even while we remain on earth; and 42 when we are carried thither and released from these bonds, our souls will make their progress with more rapidity; for the spirit which has always been fettered by the bonds of the body, even when it is disengaged, advances more slowly, just as those do who have worn actual fetters for many years: but when we have arrived at this emancipation from the bonds of the body, then indeed we shall begin to live, for this present life is really death, which I could say a good deal in lamentation for if I chose.
— from Cicero's Tusculan Disputations Also, Treatises On The Nature Of The Gods, And On The Commonwealth by Marcus Tullius Cicero

“If I could only be even a little like you!” “Why should you be like anyone?
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

If it is a reptile, and I suppose it is; for it has frowzy hair and blue eyes, and looks like a reptile.
— from Eve's Diary, Complete by Mark Twain

See, every warrior shows his head With fragrant blooms engarlanded; All look like southern soldiers who Lift up their shields of azure hue.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

And then he would pop down the lotah and cease milking for a moment, so that both hands might be free for a reverential salaam to the old cow who, at the cessation, would turn her mild white face--the real Brahmini zebu face with its wide dewy black nostril, wide dewy black eyes, and long lopping ears--to see what had come to old Gopi; and as often as not, would give his round frosted black poll a lick round with her black frosted tongue, by way of encouragement to go on, as if he had been a calf!
— from In the Guardianship of God by Flora Annie Webster Steel

I should think the length of the house on the side of the square which contains the staircase might be ninety feet, including the tower at the end, and the tower at the angle; and perhaps the side which contains the offices may be even a little longer; though this will also include the same tower in the same angle, as well as the one at the opposite corner; while the side in which is the gateway can scarcely exceed sixty feet.
— from Recollections of Europe by James Fenimore Cooper

By Eliza Acton. London: Longman.] and will be found very useful to our readers:— 1693.
— from The Book of Household Management by Mrs. (Isabella Mary) Beeton

He was dressed after the Dutch fashion of a hundred years back, in a jacket belted round the waist, and several pairs of breeches, each a little longer than the other.
— from The Strange Story Book by Mrs. Lang

I advanced, led by the beautiful page, in whose fine black eyes and long lashes, arched brow and aquiline nose, I recognized the now well-known lineaments of the Hebrew race.
— from The Pillar of Fire; or, Israel in Bondage by J. H. (Joseph Holt) Ingraham

In the region of the Sobat sources the rains begin earlier and last longer.
— from The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg