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Example sentences for "long chase"

  • We must nurse our nags, for the obstinate brutes will make it a long chase.

  • No; we've got the genuine Boer after us; and it's going to be a long chase.

  • It will be a long chase; so don't press your nag too hard.

  • The ship was at once kept away towards her, and after a long chase, approached at near nightfall to within five or six miles of the strange sail.

  • Meanwhile, George and Harry were leading their pursuers a long chase.

  • You can lead them a long chase, if you try.

  • A long chase in that hot sun had made me very thirsty, and not a drop of water had I with me.

  • I only hoped that the gnus had led them a long chase, and that they were far away from me.

  • They would lead us a long chase, of that there was no doubt; but Donald was too eager to think of letting them escape.

  • We'll lead her a long chase, and find her a warm reception at the end of it, I hope.

  • As for where we steer, you see out head is toward la belle France; and there is plenty of room for a long chase.

  • It only remained, therefore, for the frigate to commence what is proverbially "a long chase," viz.

  • A stern chase is proverbially a long chase.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    also took; holy fear; long afterward; long ago; long article; long course; long engagement; long last; long line; long neck; long nose; long past; long pause; long pepper; long procession; long residence; long ride; long rope; long siege; long trip; long way; longer have; longer needed; longitudinal section; public morality; small quarto