We rode on through the valley northwards, past numerous summer camping-grounds, and recognized the characteristic low relief of Chang-tang in contrast to the more deeply excavated valleys on the southern side of the Trans-Himalaya.
— from Trans-Himalaya: Discoveries and Adventurers in Tibet. Vol. 2 (of 2) by Sven Anders Hedin

The front of the House was so covered with canvasses, that there wasn’t a spark of daylight ever visible on that side.
— from Going into Society by Charles Dickens

The Cimbri, after wilfully destroying every vestige of the spoils they had taken, in fulfilment, probably, of some vow, wandered westward on a plundering raid towards the Pyrenees, the road thither having been lately provided, as it were, for them by Domitius.
— from The Gracchi Marius and Sulla Epochs of Ancient History by A. H. (Augustus Henry) Beesly

The front of the House was so covered with canvases that there wasn't a spark of daylight ever visible on that side. "
— from The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 6 August 1906 by Various

Thus the membrane of the eye, being a comparatively large surface, and by its delicacy well calculated to denote every variation of the system, is usually the first observed, and often the only place inspected.
— from The Dog by W. N. (William Nelson) Hutchinson

In her hurry to destroy every vestige of them she sprang out of bed, lit a candle, and in her nightgown shuffled along in her slippers into the drawing-room, until she came to the rosewood table, surmounted by a phoenix palm.
— from A Mummer's Tale by Anatole France

Needless to say, it destroyed every vestige of the superstition he may have had regarding Friday and the number thirteen.
— from Brewster's Millions by George Barr McCutcheon