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Sentences starting with long

Long ago something would have been done to commemorate them but that three of them were Protestants, and difficulties had been raised by the bigoted. [11]
Long after he was shaved that morning, the Colonel sat rapt in his chair, while the faithful servant busied himself about the room, one eye on his master the while. [9]
Long before supper was ready, nearly nine o'clock, we had almost lost interest in it. [4]
Long after he was out of sight we could hear him whiz. [5]
Long afterwards I was hunting out a paper of Dumeril's in an old journal,--the "Magazin Encyclopedique" for l'an troisieme, (1795,) when I stumbled upon a brief article on the vibrations of the spire of Strasburg Cathedral. [6]
Long before it was decided Dada had been impatiently fingering her wreaths, and could hardly wait any longer to fling them into Marcus' chariot. [10]
Long time he walked up and down, his eyes on the window. [11]
Long before eleven, too, the chiefs over tens and the chiefs over hundreds had gathered their men and marched them into the state-house; and Mr. Tooting, who was everywhere that morning, noticed that some of these led soldiers had pieces of paper in their hands. [9]
Long afterwards he told me how he felt, and I reproduce his phrases as nearly as I can. [11]
Long afterward, when the two men met in Europe, the publisher said to the now rich and famous author: "Mr. Clemens, my one claim on immortality is that I declined your first book. [5]

Sentences ending with long

Come, I think your account with my father is squared; and I want you to vote to put my father's son in Parliament, and to put out Barode Barouche, who's been there too long. [11]
Then you yourself, you, Ann, will be the island haven for which he will long. [10]
I don't like you to wear them too long. [8]
I heard that yesterday morning, and thought that the golden blessing which preceded it would last the dear saints only knew how long. [10]
In his sixteenth year he went to a forester for instruction, but did not remain long. [10]
I know our Xanthe better than you, and she no more cares for her playfellow than the column on the right side of the hearth yearns toward the one on the left, though they have stood together under the same roof so long. [10]
She said she would wait, now, where she was, and die--it would not be long. [5]
I thought he would never stir again, he look so long. [11]
She was astir with the birds of a morning, and near the last to retire at night, and happy as the days were long. [9]
Trumbull, I think, will be with you before long. [7]

Short sentences using long

The summer evenings were long. [5]
How long ago was that? [10]
How long Philostratus was gone! [10]
He did not wait long. [6]
The dress was too long. [2]
Not for long, though. [5]
Long life to the Pharaoh! [10]
Long live Wendelin the Lucky! [10]
How long ago that was! [5]
How long ago that seemed! [9]

Sentences containing long two or more times

The slender figure with the narrow head, long, delicate nose, small chin, and pointed fingers, seemed to her like a long, sharp thorn. [10]
We can see why it is that aborigines, who have long inhabited islands, and who must have been long exposed to nearly uniform conditions, should be specially affected by any change in their habits, as seems to be the case. [1]
The long mustache, which usually curled so arrogantly upwards, now drooped damp and limp over his mouth and chin, and his long reddish hair fell in dishevelled locks around his bloated face. [10]
There were two ways of going back to Fairview,--a long and a short way, --and the long way led by Jabe Jenney's farm. [9]
All day long Virginia, assisted by Uncle Ben and Aunt Easter, toiled in the stifling kitchen, preparing dainties which she had long denied herself. [9]
I shall never view again the citadel on those tall heights where I was detained so barbarously, nor the gracious Manor House at Beauport, sacred to me because of her who dwelt therein--how long ago, how long! [11]
They waited in vain for a letter from Jean Jacques, but none came; nor did they hear anything from him, or of him, for a long, long time. [11]
Ephraim was sitting up in his bed, watching for him, and exclaimed: "I have been waiting a long, long time to see you. [10]
Calm words, slow touch of hand, but, oh, the cry, The long, long cry of passion and of joy Within my heart; the star-burst in the sky-- The world--our world--which time may not destroy! [11]
They only surrender to us what they gave us for a consideration long, long ago; what they have not now asked for, struggled or cared for; what has been thrust upon them, not less to their astonishment than to ours. [7]

More example sentences with the word long in them

Pardon the wild youth who plagues his old friend and teacher, as he did long ago--so much has happened since. [11]
Even Appelles' perennial youth is only a long tragedy, and his life a failure. [5]
You see, maybe you's got to be po' a long time fust, en so you might git discourage' en kill yo'sef 'f you didn' know by de sign dat you gwyne to be rich bymeby. [5]
This fact of yours, which seems so strange to you, belongs to a great series of similar facts familiarly known now to many persons, and before long to be recognized as generally as those relating to the electric telegraph and the slaving `dynamo. [6]
And maybe, when you're a long way off from things you once lived, you can see them and understand them better. [11]
So long as your surly old father sits over the vice, he only whistles a song and spares you his complaints. [10]
You long for your sister; go to her, I have nothing more to say against it. [10]
Say I am your mother!--I have loved you so long, and there is no other. [5]
The rewards of your long and patient industry are on their way, and their arrival safe in port, presently, seems assured. [5]
I must ask your indulgence while I quote a few verses from a poem of my own, printed long ago under the title "At the Pantomime. [6]
In my opinion, your good swords have been rather long idle. [10]
He gave the young men a pretty fight indeed, and long before they had him conquered the elder guests had made their escape through door and window. [9]
But for a young lady in long skirts to make her way down that balsam, squirming about and through the stubs and dead limbs, testing each one before she trusted her weight to it, was another affair. [4]
A long, yellowish young borzoi, one Nicholas did not know, from another leash, rushed impetuously at the wolf from in front and almost knocked her over. [2]
If he loves you,--and I have long suspected that he does--" "Oh, no," she cried, hiding her face "No. [9]
I know that you, you alone, kept him prisoner here five long years. [11]
But no doubt you, who are old, have long since grown accustomed and reconciled to what seems to me such a disagreeable novelty. [5]
I must tell you, mon cher," he continued in the sad and measured tones of a man who intends to tell a long story, "that our name is one of the most ancient in France. [2]
Pleasant journey to you, ladies and gents--go it just as long as you please--it shan't cost you a cent! [5]
But I tell you"--her deep blue eyes flashed as she spoke--"that so long as you were still a genuine creating artist the case was different. [10]
You mean that you would rather keep out of the way of the man you prayed for, so long as he is well. [10]
I have shown you why I was not long since. [4]
Now, ma'am, if you was wantin' to make a long an' fast ride across the sage--say to elope--" Lassiter ended there with dry humor, yet behind that was meaning. [13]
As long as you travel with us, keep as near me as you can. [12]
How long do you think it would last? [9]
I swear to you that I repent with all my heart--the first wrong to you, the long absence--the neglect--everything. [11]
I have told you that I have just finished a long memoir, and that it has cost me no little labor to overcome some of its difficulties,--if I have overcome them, which others must decide. [6]
As long as you run across Englishmen born this side of three hundred years ago, you are all right; but the minute you get back of Elizabeth's time the language begins to fog up, and the further back you go the foggier it gets. [5]
How long do you remain in England? [11]
And they say you put up a notice sudden like, without asking them, that there'd be two long shifts instead of three eight-hour ones. [9]
How long would you put it off? [9]
The less pretension you make, the better they will like you in the long run. [3]
I have known you long, and I am not ignorant of all your brilliant qualities, but you must not speak to me of love. [6]
I am, as you know, warmly attached to Sabina, and sincerely wish the Emperor a long life. [10]
All day long you hear things 'placed' as having happened since the waw; or du'in' the waw; or befo' the waw; or right aftah the waw; or 'bout two yeahs or five yeahs or ten yeahs befo' the waw or aftah the waw. [5]
So long as you have your dance, it matters little to you who pays for the tune. [11]
So long as you had a grievance you would talk and talk and talk, and you never were so astonished in your life as when I took that five dollars. [11]
How long are you going to be in Washington? [9]
I yield to you from necessity too; from policy besides; and because of feelings that have been a pretty long time working within me. [12]
Didn't I warn you fellows that Bedloe Hubbell meant business long before he started in? [9]
I will bid you farewell, Serapion, but not for long I believe. [10]
I have wanted you ever since that night long ago when I slipped out of your bed and ran away. [9]
I wonder if you ever heard the lines--foolish they read, but they are not: "'All summer long there was one little butterfly, Flying ahead of me, Wings red and yellow, a pretty little fellow, Flying ahead of me. [11]
An', Jane Withersteen, you crossed it long ago to ease poor Milly's agony. [13]
As long as you choose to stand and look, you will see the files of sinners descending and ascending--descending soiled with sin, ascending purged from it. [5]
With us what you call time is a spacious thing; it takes a long stretch of it to grow an angel to full age. [5]
How long have you been in the spirit land? [5]
How--how long have you been here? [9]
How long have you been aboard here? [5]
I don't wonder you ask, beloved Reader, and I suppose I must tell you how we got on so long without interruption. [6]
And yet if you are to understand me I must own that so long as I was young I longed bitterly for the love which no one offered me. [10]
So long as you are sure of her love, remain with her, and show your devotion in every situation until the end. [10]
As long as you are in your right mind don't you ever pray for twins. [5]
It does not yield to time nor to decay, to the long wash of experience that wears away the stone, nor to disintegration. [11]
The woman may yield to overwhelming circumstances, she may even by her own consent be false to herself, but the love lives, however hidden and smothered, so long as the vital force is capable of responding to a true emotion. [4]
You fear and yet long to cross that line, and know that sooner or later it must be crossed and you will have to find out what is there, just as you will inevitably have to learn what lies the other side of death. [2]
You smile, and yet I feel sure that long as you have desired to revisit your dear Hellas, you will not be able to leave us quite without regret. [10]
She shrank, and yet again she said that she would rather have his cruelty than another man's tenderness, so long as she knew that she had his-- She paused, and did not say the word. [11]
His life, which yesterday had appeared so immeasurably long, now seemed brief, pitifully brief. [10]
It is two years too long, dear Cure. [11]
An' as the years passed at long intervals I would find such a man. [13]
During the long years of their union Mrs. Ebers was his active helpmate, many of the business details relating to his works and their American and English editions being transacted by her. [10]
Through the long years of their lives together, he would never know. [9]
But the long years of penance had not been in vain. [9]
When, after long years of effort, he succeeded in getting the rate established, he at once bent his energies in the direction of cheap cable service and a letter from him came one day to Stormfield concerning his new plans. [5]
Alas, for long years he had dug and carried heavy loads, with chains on his feet, beneath a broiling sun. [10]
For thirty long years he had been in one sense homeless, his wife having lost her reason three years after they were married. [11]
During the long years he had been coming to Fairview, even before the new house was built, when Victoria was in pinafores, he had never understood her. [9]
For three long years have I taken patience and with a right good will. [10]
Thus three long years had passed, during which Sappho had seldom seen her grandmother, for, as the mother of Parmys, she was by the king's command, forbidden to leave the harem, unless permitted and accompanied either by Kassandane or the eunuchs. [10]
He who had yearned for the touch of a hand felt the long tremble and the heart-beat of a woman. [13]
Several times a year she made this journey, landing at the Eperquerie Rocks as she had done one day long ago, and selling her beautiful wool caps and jackets to the farmers and fisher-folk, getting in kind for what she gave. [11]
How long have ye dwelt here, and whither are they gone that dwelt here before ye? [5]
They have been written with reverence, and the reading of the proofs has brought back to me vividly the long winters in which I pondered over the matter they contain, and wrote and rewrote the chapters. [9]
This composition was written in a singular, sharp-pointed, long, slender hand, on a kind of wavy, ribbed paper. [6]
His mother had written him, asking why he stayed so long in an unimportant city, he who had been so active a traveler hitherto. [4]
The idea of writing to me would have had to wait a long time if it waited until your brain originated it. [5]
M'sieu' Nic's been writing long letters from Montreal. [11]
She dared not write, but she cherished a desire long denied. [11]
I know the wretch who has trodden down the flower of flowers in your heart, and I, madman that I am, can sing his praises, can take his part; and cost what it may, I will still do so as long as you. [10]
The Spaniard was wrapped in a serape; he had bushy white whiskers; long white hair flowed from under his sombrero, and he wore green goggles. [5]
The river-banks are woven with osiers to keep them from washing; and at intervals on the banks are piles of the long withes to be used in emergencies when the swollen streams threaten to break through. [4]
The professor's pipe wouldn't answer; it warn't anything but a mershum, and a person that's got used to a cob pipe knows it lays a long ways over all the other pipes in this world, and you can't git him to smoke any other. [5]
Stand where you would, or change your position as often as you pleased, you were always a centre from which radiated a dozen long archways and colonnades that lost themselves in distance and the sombre twilight of the place. [5]
No prominent hill would stick to its shape long enough for me to make up my mind what its form really was, but it was as dissolving and changeful as if it had been a mountain of butter in the hottest corner of the tropics. [5]
Later, perhaps, they would relent and see something of their friends, and throw open again the gates of a beautiful place long closed to the world. [9]
Some believed he would march at once, others that he could not accomplish the investment before fall, others that the siege would be long, and bravely contested; but upon one thing all voices agreed: that Orleans must eventually fall, and with it France. [5]
How many another would long before have become sceptical of my promises! [9]
Mr. De Long would like their company. [4]
But how long would it take to turn that circle into a polygon, unless some mighty counteracting force should prevent it? [6]
In fact, it would ere long force reunion, however much of blood and treasure the separation might have cost. [7]
The thing itself would break the daily monotony of life and provide hushed gossip for vraic gatherings and veilles for a long time to come. [11]
But then he would break out like a mad bull, and he might long ago have risen to higher rank, had he not once in such a fit of passion nearly throttled a fellow-soldier. [10]
And how they would bombard him with glorifying ejaculations as he cracked his long whip and went careering away. [5]
He would be worthy of hate his whole life long, if he did not seek her once more! [10]
The service was worth coming seven miles to participate in!--it was about two hours long, and one might well feel as if he had performed a work of long-suffering to sit through it. [4]
It is well worth a long ride to visit. [6]
I got sick worryin', and when I was strong enough to be around they'd filled my job at the grocery, and it wasn't long before we had to move out of our little home in Alder Street. [9]
See here--these shoes--how worn they are--she kept them to remind her of our last long journey. [12]
Albeit it had worn another aspect than this brand new flame, which I now felt burning and blazing up from the early-lighted and long smouldering fire, nevertheless it had been of the best, and faithful and true. [10]

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