Our submersion would probably only last long enough to escape out of cannon range, or until night forbade pursuit.
— from The Master of the World by Jules Verne

Though General Symons was known to be at the point of death, his promotion was speedily gazetted, and it was some consolation to feel that the gallant and popular officer lasted long enough to read of the recognition of his worth by an appreciative country.
— from South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 2 (of 8) From the Commencement of the War to the Battle of Colenso, 15th Dec. 1899 by Louis Creswicke

If, however, the wound is large, a pledget ( pecia ) of lint, long enough to extend from one end to the other and project a little, is placed in the wound, and over this the exterior portion of the wound is to be carefully sewed, and sprinkled daily with the pulvis ruber .
— from Gilbertus Anglicus: Medicine of the Thirteenth Century by Henry E. (Henry Ebenezer) Handerson

Overhead countless brilliant points of lesser light enameled the night mantle, matching the many camp fires of the great gathering.
— from The Covered Wagon by Emerson Hough

And provided one lives long enough, the last stage sees, not a promise of further progress if life were continued, but a process of degradation.
— from A Grammar of Freethought by Chapman Cohen

Coupled with these reasons, for colonizing in the new world, was an ever expanding population in England, and the ancient law of entail, which limited possession of large landed estates to the eldest sons; younger sons and the scions of the middle classes were left with exceedingly limited opportunities or means of attaining estates in England, or, for that matter, of ever bettering their condition.
— from Domestic Life in Virginia in the Seventeenth Century by Annie Lash Jester

The rent he is supposed to demand for a piece of land large enough to be farmed by one man is one dollar.
— from Seventeen Years Among the Sea Dyaks of Borneo A Record of Intimate Association with the Natives of the Bornean Jungles by Edwin Herbert Gomes

Niagara is "Chute haute de 120 toises par où le Lac Erié tombe dans le Lac Frontenac."
— from France and England in North America, Part III: La Salle, Discovery of The Great West by Francis Parkman

You know how she loves to see a profusion of flowers about the house through the whole season." "'Ah! one rose— One rose, but one, by those fair fingers culled, Were worth a hundred kisses pressed on lips Less exquisite than thine.'"
— from The Senator's Bride by Miller, Alex. McVeigh, Mrs.