The Exchequer Rolls , I, cxiv.-cxvii., contain a long list of purchases in the Low Countries for the household of the young people—food, furniture, utensils, etc.
— from The Bruce by John Barbour

At the end of September Richard totally defeated the French, and drove their army in wild flight through the town of Gisors, precipitating Philip himself into the river Epte by the breaking down of the bridge under the weight of the fugitives, and capturing a long list of prisoners of distinction, three of them, a Montmorency among them, overthrown by Richard's own lance, as he boasted in a letter to the Bishop of Durham.
— from The History of England from the Norman Conquest to the Death of John (1066-1216) by George Burton Adams

But I couldn't let on.... We were going to marry on it and go out to California and live like other people.
— from Ramshackle House by Hulbert Footner

[641] Legislation in pursuance of this clause has withdrawn from the jurisdiction of the Court a long list of possible subjects of litigation.
— from The Governments of Europe by Frederic Austin Ogg

A tall, heavy-set man nearing fifty, he wore casual clothes and looked like old pictures of his father in middle age.
— from The Silicon Jungle by David H. Rothman

It would be most shortsighted to carry a long line of pipe from a house to a pond several miles away, only to have the pond made unfit
— from Rural Hygiene by Henry N. (Henry Neely) Ogden

Very old spots must be boiled in water containing a little liquor of potassa.
— from Cooley's Cyclopædia of Practical Receipts and Collateral Information in the Arts, Manufactures, Professions, and Trades..., Sixth Edition, Volume II by Richard Vine Tuson