Tribonian adored the virtues of his gracious of his gracious master; the earth was unworthy of such a prince; and he affected a pious fear, that Justinian, like Elijah or Romulus, would be snatched into the air, and translated alive to the mansions of celestial glory.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

Little Em’ly had overcome her shyness, and was sitting by my side upon the lowest and least of the lockers, which was just large enough for us two, and just fitted into the chimney corner.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

Je n'envoie plus de papier à mes correspondants; je leur écris par courriel et, si j'ai un document à leur transmettre, je l'envoie en fichier attaché en format html.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

10 Sub judice lis est
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

] Note 99 ( return ) [ Off the coast of Sicily and South Italy, in the month of May, I have seen men fastened half way up a boat's mast with their feet resting on a crosspiece, just large enough to support them.
— from The Odyssey Rendered into English prose for the use of those who cannot read the original by Homer

His extensive acquaintance with Talmudical and other Jewish lore, enabled him so to expose their false teaching, as to make their fallacies very evident to such as would not hoodwink their reason by impervious prejudice.
— from Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ by Aaron Bernstein

The hunter concealed himself and imitated the turkey-call by sucking the air through the leg-bone of a turkey which had previously answered a call like that and lived only just long enough to regret it.
— from The Mysterious Stranger, and Other Stories by Mark Twain

Santiago, la capital, tiene una población de cerca de 380,000 de habitantes y es una ciudad hermosa, justamente llamada el
— from A First Spanish Reader by Erwin W. (Erwin William) Roessler

Day lingered on the horizon just long enough to enable me to examine, with deep interest, the rocky heights of Abraham, the scene of our immortal Wolfe's victory and death; and when the twilight faded into night, the moon arose in solemn beauty, and cast mysterious gleams upon the strange stern landscape.
— from Roughing It in the Bush by Susanna Moodie

This dock, as I call it, was really a mere ditch just long enough at this phase of the tide to take the longboat.
— from The Island of Doctor Moreau by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

G. Entrance holes to hut 2 ft. off the ground and just large enough for a man to squeeze through.
— from A Camera Actress in the Wilds of Togoland The adventures, observations & experiences of a cinematograph actress in West African forests whilst collecting films depicting native life and when posing as the white woman in Anglo-African cinematograph dramas by Meg Gehrts

The window was open, but the green blinds were carefully closed, admitting a free circulation of air, and just light enough to render the objects within distinctly visible.
— from Life in the Clearings versus the Bush by Susanna Moodie

From the collection of the late Cyrus J. Lawrence, Esq.
— from Artists Past and Present; Random Studies by Elisabeth Luther Cary

"On the contrary," said Josephine, having surveyed me once more from head to foot to make sure that I was in nowise peculiar, but just like everybody else (only nicer, as she would say), "you look neat, and cool as a cucumber, and five years younger.
— from The Opinions of a Philosopher by Robert Grant

"' "Just like 'em," growled the other.
— from Rick Dale, A Story of the Northwest Coast by Kirk Munroe

A stone box perhaps eight feet square—as I lay upon the floor I could touch its opposite sides with my hands and feet—had been prepared for my entrance by cutting a slit in one of its walls just large enough for the passage of my body.
— from The Darrow Enigma by Melvin L. (Melvin Linwood) Severy

The sea rolled in front, awful in its dreariness, under just light enough to show a something unlike the land.
— from Robert Falconer by George MacDonald

I just let 'em sweat.
— from The Phantom Herd by B. M. Bower

James L. Enos had something to do with nearly every paper that was started during the early days of Linn county.
— from History of Linn County Iowa From Its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time [1911] by Luther Albertus Brewer

The bird is split as for broiling, and placed in a small pan just large enough to hold it; a strip of bacon pinned about the breast; add 1 tablespoonful of butter in bits, dust the cut surface first with salt and pepper, then with flour; add ½ cup of hot water.
— from Dietetics for Nurses by Fairfax T. (Fairfax Throckmorton) Proudfit