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

There strode towards one of these mothers who was seated on the stone bench which ran all round the Court of Honour, the Governor of St. Martin des Champs (a stern man who had never possessed either wife or child, nor anything of a home but tents and barracks, during a long life of soldiering) accompanied by a woman from the Hospital of Charity--which preceded by some years the Hospital for Foundlings--a nurse.
— from Servants of Sin: A Romance by John Bloundelle-Burton

During a long life of servitude Madame Cerise had acquiesced in many
— from Aunt Jane's Nieces in Society by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

The mouth of the James and the York were visible from the deck, and long lines of shipping stretched from each to the Fortress.
— from Campaigns of a Non-Combatant, and His Romaunt Abroad During the War by George Alfred Townsend

Lights were beginning to prick through the dusk, a long line of street cars was waiting, empty and brightly lighted.
— from Saturday's Child by Kathleen Thompson Norris

As we were sitting by our fire, concealed by the earth bank of the dam, a long line of sheldrake, half-grown, came waddling over it from the water below, passing within about a rod of us, so that we could almost have caught them in our hands.
— from The Maine Woods The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, Volume 03 (of 20) by Henry David Thoreau

And the words ran so nearly in the current of her own bitter thoughts that Vera laughed, shortly and disdainfully, a low laugh of scorn at the world, whose mandates she was prepared to obey, even though she despised herself for doing so.
— from Vera Nevill Or, Poor Wisdom's Chance by Cameron, H. Lovett, Mrs.