The numerous gas-lamps served only to show more clearly a long line of wooden houses, each with its veranda facing the street, unkempt and dirty.
— from The Valley of Fear by Arthur Conan Doyle

His assiduity at court, the cares this brought on, continually hunting, fatigue, and especially that of the service during the quarter he was in waiting, required the vigor of a young man, and I did not perceive anything that could support his in that course of life; since, besides after his death, his dignities were to be dispersed and his name extinct, it was by no means necessary for him to continue a laborious life of which the principal object had been to dispose the prince favorably to his children.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

And out of the Church angels learn lessons of wisdom (Eph. iii. 10); we cannot then doubt but that the eyes of angels are directed towards us.’
— from Norman Macleod by John Wellwood

His grandfather had given him a small car, a long, low one with a nose like a chisel.
— from Red Dynamite A Mystery Story for Boys by Roy J. (Roy Judson) Snell

The names of the invaders, as well as could be ascertained, were as follows: John Brown, Watson Brown, Oliver Brown, Owen Brown, Aaron D. Stevens, Edwin Coppic, Barclay Coppic, Albert Hazlett, John E. Cook, Stuart Taylor, William Lehman, William Thompson, John Henrie Kagi, Charles P. Tydd, Oliver Anderson, Jeremiah Anderson, 'Dolph Thompson, Dangerfield Newby, Shields Greene alias "Emperor," John Copeland and Lewis Leary, of whom the last four were negroes or Mulattoes.
— from The Strange Story of Harper's Ferry, with Legends of the Surrounding Country by Joseph Barry

From English alone, which for twelve hundred years has had an abundant written literature, and which has been studied by many eminent linguists, who have had many sister-languages with which to compare it, it would be an easy matter to compile a long list of words, well-known words of everyday occurrence, which etymologists have had to give up as beyond their powers of solution ( fit , put , pull , cut , rouse , pun , fun , job ).
— from Language: Its Nature, Development and Origin by Otto Jespersen

A metal made from "slag" from refining, together with "base" thorns, would be very impure; for the latter, according to the paragraph on concentrates a little later on, would contain the furnace accretions, and would thus be undoubtedly zincky.
— from De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 by Georg Agricola

At length came a long line of wagons, extending as far as the eye could reach, and a strong
— from Three Years in the Service A Record of the Doings of the 11th Reg. Missouri Vols. by D. McCall

Such cases, a long list of which might be given, render the prudent surgeon very cautious in his diagnosis of abdominal tumours, and chary of operative interference with them.
— from Elements of Surgery by Robert Liston

Fling up your heels, An' mind: a speäde to dig out theäsem wheels, An' hook to cut a little lock o' widdicks.
— from Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect by William Barnes