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Sentences ending with longer

You must not, you shall not be deaf to my supplications longer! [5]
If I were you I wouldn't hide it from him any longer. [11]
I cannot blame you any longer. [10]
I hoped he would be meek no longer. [11]
What was it within me that pressed and pressed until I thought I could bear the pain of it no longer? [9]
My friend stayed with me a few days in the early part of January; she could not be spared longer. [14]
But the anxiety which dominated her mind prevented her pursuing the same thought longer. [10]
She knew full well, he said, that his living loves changed in frequent succession, and it would be strange indeed if a dead one could bind him any longer. [10]
Blame me if we wouldn't have run plumb by it if twilight had held on a little longer. [5]
The University bill was safe, now; he could leave it without fear; it needed his presence and his watching no longer. [5]

Short sentences using longer

Oh, longer than that. [5]
I was undecided no longer. [9]
He was tanned no longer. [9]
It was clothing no longer. [5]
He would search no longer. [11]
I wilt wait no longer. [10]
Till one o'clock, mind--no longer. [5]
He no longer loved her. [10]
Her face was longer. [9]
Shores lonely no longer. [5]

Sentences containing longer two or more times

The clouds were rolling northward, and the thunder followed the flashes of lightning at longer and longer intervals. [10]
He was no longer a man of peace, but a man of the sword; no longer a man of the palm and the evangel, but a man of blood and of crime! [11]
With the monarchy, its several adjuncts died also; wherefore there is no longer a nobility, no longer a privileged class, no longer an Established Church; all men are become exactly equal; they are upon one common level, and religion is free. [5]
No matter about his failings; the longer he holds on to life, the longer he makes life seem to all the living who follow him, and thus he is their constant benefactor. [6]
Fainter and fainter dropped the clamour behind me, which had risen as I started, and the leaps grew longer and longer. [9]
Now this world disconcerted him no longer and was no longer alien to him, but he himself having entered it found in it a new enjoyment. [2]
She no longer complained of her position, did not say a word about the past, and no longer feared to make happy plans for the future. [2]
He held his age better than any celebrity that has figured in history; and the longer he lived the stronger and longer his memory grew. [5]

More example sentences with the word longer in them

You are giving yourself useless trouble, Jason, and I earnestly beg you not to disturb me any longer now, for a dark spot is already appearing on the roast. [10]
You must subdue your curiosity for a few days longer, and then it may easily happen that the man whose very aspect makes you feel dirty--the bat, the toad--" "Let that pass now," cried Polykarp. [10]
He still a young man but no longer a young diplomat, as he had entered the service at the age of sixteen, had been in Paris and Copenhagen, and now held a rather important post in Vienna. [2]
I will detain you no longer, General; you shall receive my letter to the Emperor. [2]
I can save you little longer, even were it my will so to do. [11]
But since, as you have heard, I act before I think, I went myself--I no longer know how--into the burning stable. [10]
The gorgeous flower you desire I can no longer give you--or any one. [10]
Now without detaining you any longer, I propose that you help me to close up what I am now saying with three rousing cheers for General Grant and the officers and soldiers under his command. [7]
I'll not detain you an instant longer, on any account, Kit. [12]
Arriving in New York, November 19, 1867, Mark Twain found himself no longer unknown to the metropolis, or to any portion of America. [5]
It takes a year to mature the canes--on the high ground three and six months longer --and there is always a chance that the annual cyclone will rip the profit out of the crop. [5]
He no longer writes "between you and I" Fragment of a letter to Orion Clemens. [5]
She said she would wait awhile longer, but if at the end of six months I didn't do my duty, she'd see the thing through here among my own people. [11]
Such an event would no longer have been possible so near the city. [10]
Now that he would learn the actual truth from the most credible eye-witnesses she no longer dreaded even the worst calumny. [10]
And this game would have gone on still longer but that she remembered that the seventeen must not be included at all, and that he ought to begin with eighteen. [10]
And, if the world will no longer tolerate the old theories, a tribute may at least be paid to those who from conviction upheld them; who ruled, perhaps in affluence, yet were also willing to toil and, if need be, to die for the privilege. [9]
Yet, though the woods no longer thrill As once their arches rung, Sweet echoes hover round thee still Of songs thy summer sung. [6]
Gentlemen, do you wonder if this woman, thus pursued, lost her reason, was beside herself with fear, and that her wrongs preyed upon her mind until she was no longer responsible for her acts? [5]
I no longer wonder at the number of feather-beds at the inns, under which we are apparently expected to sleep even in the warmest nights. [4]
I no longer wonder at the English being such excellent caricaturists, they have such an inexhaustible number and variety of subjects to study from. [4]
I wished the woman would say something more; the longer she set still the uneasier I was. [5]
The jaws, together with their muscles, would then have been reduced through disuse, as would the teeth through the not well understood principles of correlation and economy of growth; for we everywhere see that parts, which are no longer of service, are reduced in size. [1]
A Paul, or with longer hair and a little more youthful aspect, an admirable St. John. [10]
Demetrius watched it with less anxiety; he knew that his Arabs were far superior to the Egyptian breed in staying power, and they also had the advantage of having had a longer rest. [10]
I must talk with him, and--you no longer have any thought of a parting? [10]
Dr. Leigh remained with him for an hour longer, and then left him in charge of a young gentleman from the Neighborhood Guild, who gladly volunteered to watch for the night. [4]
His easy familiarity with great men was beautiful to see, and when Philip learned what a tremendous underground influence this little ignoramus had, he no longer wondered at the queer appointments and the queerer legislation. [5]
He rose up, with a great resolution upon his lips: this secret life should be revealing, and confessed; no longer would he live it clandestinely, he would go and tell her All. [5]
I could have wished that you both had taken longer to reflect, but I hope with all my heart that you will be happy. [9]
It is my will--and now I see my way to its good fulfilment--that I remain no longer in that virgin state wherein I have ever lived. [11]
This, I think, will practically not be longer than for a year. [7]
And now I will not longer defer the pleasure of taking you, and each of you, by the hand. [7]
I declare I will not endure it any longer, and if you try to keep me shut up, I will run away from this temple, for outside it is all bright and pleasant, and here it is dingy and horrid! [10]
My prospective visit will not be a professional one, as I resigned my office in 1882, and am no longer known chiefly as a teacher or a practitioner. [6]
Otherwise their day will be short indeed; and I should wish for them a day a little longer at least than my day and span. [11]
The stern Balbilla will at last descend from the lofty Olympus of her high-anti-mightiness and no longer disdain that immutable foundation-rock, the adoration of her faithful Verus. [10]
Do you know why it is no longer pleasant to him? [10]
It filled her whole soul, had become an integral part of herself, and she no longer struggled against it. [2]
Whoever knows it, whoever serves it, whoever impresses it deeply on his soul and only breathes and moves in it, no longer has any taint of baseness; he soars high above the earth, and knows nothing of misery and death. [10]
Yes, and another who, in spite of himself, has fallen in love with Victoria and would like to linger a while longer, even though it were with the paltry excuse of discussing that world-old question of hers--Can sublime happiness and achievement go together? [9]
Gradually the people who came here ostensibly for religious exercises made a longer and more permanent occupation, and, without losing its ephemeral character, the place grew and demanded more substantial accommodations. [4]
Alexas loved Barine, while Philostratus no longer cared for her. [10]
With a cry which was no longer doubt, but agonized apprehension, she threw the Thing from her with a motion of both hands and feet; and, as she did so, she felt a horrible cold air breathing from a bloodless body, chill her hand. [11]
The four Fs which he had advised his master to heed in his wooing--Family, Figure, Favor, and Fortune--he no longer deemed the right touch-tones. [10]
Let the States which are in rebellion see definitely and certainly that in no event will the States you represent ever join their proposed confederacy, and they cannot much longer maintain the contest. [7]
If we stayed where we were, our dead would kill us; if we moved out of our defenses, we should no longer be invincible. [5]
In this atmosphere, when we were prepared to take our ease, the talk was no longer of stocks, or railways, or schemes, but of books. [4]
The time came when the uncertainty of it could no longer be endured. [4]
The time came when I could no longer keep this thing to myself. [9]
In the roof were two oil lamps which gave a light strong enough to read by; each had a green-cloth attachment by which it could be covered when the light should be no longer needed. [5]
Some of these were square, others round or polygonal, but most of them much longer than they were wide. [10]
Next evening there were more costly gifts, but albeit Puer natus was still to be heard in the streets, we no longer were moved to join in. [10]
And soon we were in the heat of it,--sober minuet no longer, but romp and riot, the screams of the lasses a-mingle with our own laughter, as we spun them until they were dizzy. [9]
All the servants were called together, and strict enquiry was made as to the theft of the stone; then I could hold out no longer, and confessed everything. [10]
Just as he went in he saw that the nurse was hiding something from him with a scared look and that Princess Mary was no longer by the cot. [2]
The patient gets well by the use of arnica in a little more than a month longer, and this extraordinary fact is published in the French "Archives of Homoeopathic Medicine. [3]
He would have welcomed a Niagara of importunity and imprecations; he was bursting with impatience to express himself; it seemed as if he would die if he were silent an hour longer under that letter. [4]
She was found weeping one day on the veille because she was no longer able to get her shoulders out of the window to use the clothes-lines stretching to her neighbour's over the way. [11]
They did not weep or shudder and during these last days they themselves felt that they were not attending on him (he was no longer there, he had left them) but on what reminded them most closely of him--his body. [2]
We were some weeks longer together, but he never offered to continue his reading. [6]
Presently the Mukaukas wearily opened his eyes, turned uneasily from side to side, and recognizing his kneeling son and his wife, bathed in tears, he murmured, almost inarticulately, for his paralyzed tongue no longer did his will: "Two pillules, Philip! [10]
I no longer wear the white cockade, for I am older now. [9]
Softened by affectionate weakness and no longer able to resist the impulse to see his little Belita happy, he whispered: "Poor thing, poor young lovers! [10]
Listen, Bischen; if we really should be executed, go to the Magi, the Chaldwans, and Nebenchari the Egyptian, and tell them they had better not study the stars any longer, for that those very stars had proved themselves liars and deceivers to Darius. [10]
Silently leading the way through the dusky corridor, no longer illumined by the moonlight, he entered his daughter's room before her. [10]
Such accuracy, it was sometimes whispered, required absolutely perfect adjustment, and what would happen when the great inventor--"the poet in steel," as Clemens once called him--was no longer at hand to supervise and to correct the slightest variation. [5]
Yet divine love was said to be so much more rapturous, and how much longer it endured! [10]
The dining-room door was open, and--marvellous--the table was still untouched, his father must have remained at the town-hall longer than usual. [10]
True, my character was not yet steeled sufficiently to resist every temptation, but I no longer need fear the danger of crossing the barrier which Froebel set for men "worthy" in his sense. [10]
But the knight was no longer to be found there. [10]
At least here was no longer the cry of doom. [11]
Though her voice was no longer so free from sharpness and harshness as in the old days, it by no means jarred upon the ear; nay, every tone revealed its admirable training. [10]
I was desperate.--Money was no longer of any consequence. [5]
But the man was no longer in the town. [5]
Her lover henceforth was no longer her enemy; and as the tumult of the struggle by the breach fell on her ear, she could think with joy of his victorious arms. [10]
Secondly, Prince Andrew was no longer as young as he had been and his health was poor (the old man laid special stress on this), while she was very young. [2]
For herself there was no longer any great victory to win which would be worth the conflict. [10]
The old lady was no longer alone, for in the background, on a long and narrow couch which stood in front of the statue of Apollo, lay a tall, lean man, wearing a red chiton. [10]
A floating beam was held out to sinking men, and they would no longer wait for the life-boat that was approaching to rescue them, with strong hands at the oars and a trusty pilot at the helm. [10]
Of what good was fidelity if he that was faithful desired no longer as he once did? [11]
At last it was decided that the men were too much wearied to do battle longer. [5]
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]
The musician Wilhelm was also present, but no longer alone; beside him sat his beautiful, delicate wife, Anna d'Avila, with whom he had recently returned from Italy. [10]
Rostov no longer wanted to sleep. [2]
I do not want to see any advertisements around, for the reason that I'm not a lecturer any longer. [5]
At home he wandered around no longer, idle and fasting, but ate his meals regularly, and threw himself into his work with such passionate energy, that even the industrious Schimmel found it too much, and Frau Schimmel grew anxious. [10]
The place is waiting for him, and it can't wait longer than the last boat down. [11]
If you had waited one minute longer at the barracks you could have done so. [11]
I wish I'd waited a little longer before telling her about the strike, but one day she asked me how it had come out--and she seemed to be getting along so nicely I didn't see any reason for not telling her. [9]
He would gladly wait there longer to afford the old man's granddaughter an opportunity to soften the tidings of the impending misfortune. [10]
I determined to wait no longer. [7]
Yet her deep voice had gained a new, strange tone as, at first rapidly and softly, then in louder and firmer accents, she continued: "So I attained my eighteenth year and was no longer satisfied to dwell in Succoth. [10]
Of one such visit Howells wrote: "In the good-fellowship of that cordial neighborhood we had two such days as the aging sun no longer shines on in his round. [5]
According to this view the power of historical personages, represented as the product of many forces, can no longer, it would seem, be regarded as a force that itself produces events. [2]
It was the vierkleur of the pioneer, without which the long train of capewagons, with the oxen in longer coils of effort, would never have advanced; without which the Kaffir and the Hottentot would have sacrificed every act of civilization. [11]
The defense of Vienna was no longer to be thought of. [2]
The longer hairs vibrate sympathetically with the graver notes, and the shorter hairs with the higher ones. [1]
You are not vexed with us any longer? [10]
I got home very well, and full glad was I that no insuperable obstacle had deferred my return one single day longer. [14]

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