In this instance, as in many others, gold is literally lying on the ground in Cyprus, ready to be picked up by those who have enterprise and energy.
— from Cyprus: Historical and Descriptive by Franz von Löher

When on their long migrations the geese all fly very high, and generally in long lines or triangles.
— from Winter Adventures of Three Boys in the Great Lone Land by Egerton Ryerson Young

St. Sulpice In 1618 the Grande Salle of the Palais de Justice, the finest of its kind in Europe, decorated by Fra Giocondo, was gutted by fire, and its rich stained glass, its double vaultings resplendent with blue and gold, its long line of the statues of the kings of France from Pharamond to Henry IV., were utterly destroyed.
— from Paris and Its Story by Thomas Okey

The road along the skirt of the lake, as it approached the castle, was rugged and steep, and where it turned off into the peninsula, towards the gate, it literally lay on the cornice of a precipice, which, with all his valour, made Walkinshaw more than once inclined to leap from the gig.
— from The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy by John Galt

On the great love of God I lean, Love of the Infinite, Unseen, With nought of heaven or earth between.
— from Daily Strength for Daily Needs by Mary Wilder Tileston