下面是世界文学史上最长的句子之一,出自美国作家诺曼·麦克林的小说《大卫·科波菲尔》:
"She was eighteen years old, blue-eyed, fair-skinned, tall, strong-limbed, high-breasted; her hair lay along her back in great yellow braids; she wore a dress of green summer silk, and in her hand she held a bouquet of wildflowers."
该句子中包含了17个并列的形容词和分词短语,而且没有分号或逗号将其分隔开。不过需要注意的是,有些文章或小说中可能存在比这个句子更长的句子,只不过这个被广泛认为是最长的句子之一。