Corinna's infidelities begin again and multiply; her intrigues become so public, that the only boon that Ovid can crave of her, is that she will take some trouble to deceive him, and show a little less obviously what she really is.
— from On Love by Stendhal

At sundown, a long line of woodland cavalry, in all respects armed and equipped in the same fashion with those who already occupied the valley, were seen winding down the rugged road which led from the high grounds to the camp.
— from Horse-Shoe Robinson: A Tale of the Tory Ascendency by John Pendleton Kennedy

Very probably it is partly true; though I do not know that the people whose testimony is so willingly accepted, to the detriment of our brethren in foreign lands, are precisely the kind of people that should talk much about self-sacrifice and luxurious living, or whose estimate of Christian work is to be relied upon.
— from Expositions of Holy Scripture: Romans Corinthians (To II Corinthians, Chap. V) by Alexander Maclaren

She seemed to struggle against the potent influence he exerted, then she came nearer, swaying a little, like one walking in her sleep.
— from Leslie's Loyalty by Charles Garvice

In winter, look over the trees, see that all are tied properly, reduce with a small saw any large lumps of wood formed in the course of years, and prepare the trees for spraying or washing.
— from The Book of Pears and Plums; With Chapters on Cherries and Mulberries by Edward Bartrum

A number of us rose to our feet and saw a long line of wagons with their white covers moving toward us along the road leading to Chambersburg.
— from From Bull Run to Appomattox: A Boy's View by Luther W. Hopkins

Lord Byron either stayed a little longer, or went up stairs to his books and his couch.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 121, November, 1867 A Magazine of Literature, Science, Art, and Politics by Various

We then rode on, the column we were guiding getting gradually into formation, and we were just mounting the next ridge, when down in the valley beneath we saw a long line of waggons, stretching away eastward for miles, dragged by huge bullock teams.
— from With Rimington by L. March (Lisle March) Phillipps

" Barry gestured wildly, bursting to speak, and Little looked on with a puzzled grin.
— from Gold Out of Celebes by Aylward Edward Dingle

We had made 8 1/2' S. 22 E. and about 5' S.S.W. by 1 P.M., and could see a long lead of water to the south, cut off only by a broad strip of floe with many water holes in it: a composite floe.
— from Scott's Last Expedition Volume I Being the journals of Captain R. F. Scott by Robert Falcon Scott

Drake glanced apprehensively behind him, and there, sure enough, just below the inky curtain of blackness on the northern horizon, which was now being rent in every direction by continuous lightning flashes, could be seen a long line of whitish colour, which, there could be no doubt, was approaching the ship with more than the speed of an express train.
— from A Chinese Command: A Story of Adventure in Eastern Seas by Harry Collingwood