Besides starting them as aforementioned, I have had to do, one time or another, during my life, with a long list of papers, at divers places, sometimes under queer circumstances.
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

Taas kaáyu ang píla sa manan-áway sa sini, There was a long line of people waiting to get into the show.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

She stopped with a little laugh of pleasure, and there, lo and behold, was the robin swaying on a long branch of ivy.
— from The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

The said “Uncle Abe,” it may be mentioned, was at least like other prophets in that he had small honor in his own country.
— from Anne of Avonlea by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

His behaviour throughout has been extremely presumptuous and impertinent, and I desire, that I may never hear his name repeated, and that you will get the better of those foolish sorrows and whims, and look like other people, and not appear with that dismal countenance, as if you were ready to cry.
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

He was the heir of the faith of His people, and regarded Himself as completing that which a long line of predecessors had begun.
— from Some Christian Convictions A Practical Restatement in Terms of Present-Day Thinking by Henry Sloane Coffin

I started with a long list of people who had been recommended to me; but they all are engaged for that day.
— from Phebe, Her Profession A Sequel to Teddy: Her Book by Anna Chapin Ray

Ambition, the desire for novelty, the skill of those who circulated these books, made the majority of people hope to cut a figure or make a fortune, and persuaded them there was as little lack of personages as in the last minority.
— from Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency — Complete by Saint-Simon, Louis de Rouvroy, duc de

And so the kitchen of the camp was surrendered to the native matron, who quietly covered the hot pebbles and sand where the fire had been, with a lighter layer of pebbles, upon which the clams were deposited and some fine twigs placed on top, upon which earth was deposited.
— from The Busy Life of Eighty-Five Years of Ezra Meeker Ventures and adventures; sixty-three years of pioneer life in the old Oregon country; an account of the author's trip across the plains with an ox team; return trip, 1906-7; his cruise on Puget Sound, 1853; trip through the Natchess pass, 1854; over the Chilcoot pass; flat-boating on the Yukon, 1898. The Oregon trail. by Ezra Meeker

It was a little late, or perhaps one might say a little early, to begin so complicated a subject as the Irish Question, and my final memories of his dictation are confused with the fact that at about 7 A. M. one of the colored porters came in with coffee, and shortly after that I was assisted to my berth in a more or less asphyxiated condition, from which I never roused again until the train reached the station at Washington.
— from My Brother, Theodore Roosevelt by Corinne Roosevelt Robinson

It was possible that a man like Cole, with a large list of properties under his management, might be somewhat vague in his recollection of the names of a few of his tenants.
— from The Sheridan Road Mystery by Paul Thorne

But with instant comprehension of his rashness, the young man said with a light laugh: "Oh, pshaw, Dian!
— from John Stevens' Courtship: A Story of the Echo Canyon War by Susa Young Gates

"That is nicer than a compliment," she said, looking at him with a little laugh of pleasure.
— from The Adventures of a Modest Man by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

One day Jane Freedman waylaid him with a large lump of pine-apple rock.
— from Forward from Babylon by Louis Golding