Where the lines of print at last left off running into each other, I know, however, perfectly well.
— from The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins

Every description of vehicle, omnibuses, fiacres, peasants' carts, people on horseback, all ranged close up behind the soldiers; groups of carabinieri with their red plumets are scattered about the Piazza; a long line of red-coated German seminarists crossing at one end, two or three Cappucini with their sandals, bare feet, and [311] ropes at their waists, coming out of their church, but not stopping to see the show.
— from Italian Letters of a Diplomat's Wife: January-May, 1880; February-April, 1904 by Mary King Waddington

As an outcome of their deliberations, the Republicans proposed a long list of reservations which touched upon many of the vital parts of the treaty.
— from History of the United States by Mary Ritter Beard

Thomas having been sufficiently reënforced in Tennessee to enable him to hold Hood in check, and Sherman relieved from the necessity of defending himself against an active army, and of protecting a long line of railroad communication with a fortified base in his rear, resolved upon his march to the sea, abandoning Atlanta, after having first utterly destroyed that city by fire.
— from The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Volume 2 by Jefferson Davis

Come, forget that persecution here, at a hundred thousand leagues from Parisian and literary life, or rather come be glad of it, for these great slatings are the sure proof of great worth.
— from The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters by George Sand

The Bingerloch was then held to be a dangerous, as it certainly was a difficult pass for boats ascending; for here the river, suddenly contracted to half its previous width, plunged amid long lines of rugged rocks into the gorge.
— from The Life of Ludwig van Beethoven, Volume I by Alexander Wheelock Thayer

In poured a long line of riders in Moorish garb, whose white dresses, emerging from the gloom into the glare of the fire, gave them the look of rising ghosts.
— from Under the Flag of France: A Tale of Bertrand du Guesclin by David Ker

But have patience a little longer, O reader, for when this last trick is finished, we shall wing our way along smoothly throughout the rest of the book without any tricks whatever.
— from A Blundering Boy: A Humorous Story by Bruce Weston Munro

Half a mile to the north of this river there rises abruptly from the smooth plain a long line of rocky hills, and in this strong position the Boers had determined to make a stubborn stand.
— from Ian Hamilton's March by Winston Churchill

Memoirs of the Political and Literary Life of Robert Plumer Ward, Esq., Author of "The Law of Nations," "Tremaine," "De Vere," &c. With Selections from his Correspondence, Diaries, and unpublished Literary Remains.
— from International Weekly Miscellany of Literature, Art, and Science — Volume 1, No. 4, July 22, 1850 by Various