Sentence examples for lines of footnotes from inspiring English sources

The first, iconic sentence ("riverrun, past Eve and Adam's, from swerve of shore to bend of bay, brings us by a commodius vicus of recirculation back to Howth Castle and Environs") takes up three lines in Chinese but requires 17 lines of footnotes.

Four thousand lines of rhyming couplets humming above thickets of footnotes, with engravings by Blake, Fuseli and others, it consisted of two parts, "The Economy of Vegetation", and "The Loves of the Plants".

But the author's preliminary notes also sound a useful warning to any reader who is not a Hogarth-aficionado, as the first, two-line sentence is followed by three pages of footnotes in very small print!

Of course, scholarly books are still full of footnotes.

Our hearts break for about a week, and then we kind of want to move on". Sacco's unease goes to the core of "Footnotes in Gaza," his latest book-length comic from inhumanity's front lines.

Lots and lots of footnotes.

Instead of footnotes, there is a section called "further reading".

Mr. Liebling's defense appears in the form of footnotes.

Yes, that's a lot of footnotes and "yes, buts".

The Night Porter makes use of footnotes.

His 600 interviews are noted in 97 pages of footnotes.