26. Elaborated Compound-Complex Sentence

My sentence:

At long last I was home, the dog lying at my feet; with Vivaldi lilting in the background, I sipped my tea - and sighed.

Other examples:

"When it came night, the white waves paced to and fro in the moonlight, and the wind brought the sound of the great sea's voice to the men on shore, and they felt that they could then be interpreters."

Stephen Crane, "The Open Boat"

This is the last sentence of the story. After days of battling tall ocean waves in their little boat, the men have finally made land, though one of their group died during the last few minutes of rescue. That night, hearing the ocean from a different perspective, the survivors sense that only now do they know the ocean well.