As for my lodging, I kept to the tent; except that sometimes, in the wet season of the year, it rained so hard that I could not keep myself dry, which caused me afterwards to cover all my place within my pale with long poles, in the form of rafters, leaning against the rock, and load them with flags and large leaves of trees, like a thatch.
— from The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

Hunter & 4 Horses 1 Corpl & 4 Privates in a Perogue to be Sent back from Plate river Mr. Dueron inteptr for the Sues Capt. Lewis my Self & York in all 46 men July 4th 4 horses & a Dog H2 anchor [Clark, July 4, 1804] July 4th Wednesday ussered in the day by a discharge of one shot from our Bow piece, proceeded on, passed the mouth of a (1) Bayeau lading from a large Lake on the S. S. which has the apperance of being once the bed of the river & reaches parrelel for Several Miles Came to on the L. S. to refresh ourselves &.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

He was descended from a long line of Irish Kings, and he was the first one of them who had ever come into his kingdom—the kingdom of such being the city of New York.
— from The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today by Charles Dudley Warner

There were rafters from the torn-down floor above, lying loose on the ground—but they were too light.
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think; 'T is strange, the shortest letter which man uses Instead of speech, may form a lasting link Of ages; to what straits old Time reduces Frail man, when paper—even a rag like this, Survives himself, his tomb, and all that 's his.
— from Don Juan by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron

He was descended from a long line of ancestors distinguished by their haughty demeanor, and by the inflexibility with which they had withstood all the demands of the Plebeian order.
— from Lays of Ancient Rome by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron

Women know that, the choicest of them: a little fatter a little leaner— oh, how much fate is in so little!
— from Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

The Professor charged up and down the green aisles like a stout Teutonic knight, with a pole for a lance, leading on the boys, who made a hook and ladder company of themselves, and performed wonders in the way of ground and lofty tumbling.
— from Little Women; Or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy by Louisa May Alcott

The glory of a descent from a long line of armigerous ancestors, the glory and the pride of race inseparably interwoven with the inheritance of a name which has been famous in history, the fact that some arms have been designed to commemorate heroic achievements, the fact that the display of a particular coat of arms has been the method, which society has countenanced, of advertising to the world that one is of the upper class or a descendant of some ancestor who performed some glorious deed to which the arms have reference, the fact that arms themselves are the very sign of a particular descent or of a particular Page 23 {23} rank, have all tended to cause a false and fictitious value to be placed upon all these pictured emblems which as a whole they have never possessed, and which I believe they were never intended to possess.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

Near the stone I next fastened a longer length of string, and then I ensconced myself on the opposite side of the road.
— from Adventures and Recollections by Bill o'th' Hoylus End

The general deployment for a long line of battle comprising several battle districts is not directly considered in these regula
— from Infantry Drill Regulations, United States Army, 1911 Corrected to April 15, 1917 (Changes Nos. 1 to 19) by United States. War Department

Waving back the executioners with the haughty dignity derived from a long line of noble ancestors, she drew her slim and supple figure to its full height and faced the group of chieftains with head erect and flashing eyes.
— from Captain John Smith by C. H. Forbes-Lindsay

All belief in his return must, ages before this, have perished; yet his memory was not forgotten, and it is on record, that a secret had been entrusted to one who had probably descended from a long line of ancient minstrels; for the druids, who numbered bards amongst their order, had mysteries which they only confided to each other, and these were seldom revealed until the approach of death.
— from History of the Anglo-Saxons, from the Earliest Period to the Norman Conquest Second Edition by Thomas Miller

Aged couple at supper table; woman at end, man at side facing audience; lighted lamp on table--small, so as not to hide man’s face.
— from Dramatized Readings: Recitations in Poetry and Prose, Illustrated with Tableaux Preston Library No. 1 by Lucy A. Yendes

After it followed a long line of cattle.
— from The Killer by Stewart Edward White

Sir Richard Sackville, also her mother's first-cousin, had filled different fiscal offices under the three last reigns; he was a man of abilities, and derived from a long line of ancestors great estates and extensive influence in the county of Sussex.
— from Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth by Lucy Aikin

As a show dog, his massive frame, powerful limbs, pure white coat, with its pale lemon markings and frecklings, and, above all, his solemn and majestic aspect, mark him out as a true aristocrat, with all the beauty of refinement which comes from a long line of cultured ancestors.
— from Dogs and All about Them by Robert Leighton

In this narrative I have first to deal with parties of high social position—of education, and much refinement, of course,—but descended from a long line of ancestors more or less noted for their inclination to believe everything which came to them under the similitude of religion or superstition of any kind—anything which seemed to them inexplicable; anything, in other words, mysterious to them.
— from Knots Untied; Or, Ways and By-ways in the Hidden Life of American Detectives by George S. McWatters