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Example sentences for "long journey"

  • And thus speaking, they seized his mantle; he placed his hands on their heads, and blessed each one separately, just as a father does children whom he is sending on a long journey.

  • He thought of her only as dear and desired, and he had the same impression as if she were returning after a long journey.

  • Fear not; I ask, for who knows but I may have to set out on a long journey?

  • After a long journey by land, such scenes are peculiarly delightful; but description tangles, not communicates, the sensations imbibed upon the spot.

  • Did it not seem as if Death had spared them for Love, and that Love should lead them together through life's long journey to the gates of Death?

  • And I feel exactly as honest Dobbin feels when his harness is slipped off after a long journey with a good deal of up-hill work.

  • As my readers may note with more or less patience, it takes time for New Netherland folk to get started on a long journey.

  • My father made business trips to New York, and, sometimes, as far east as Boston, in those days a long journey.

  • Ours was a long journey, in truth, as it required two days and a night to accomplish it.

  • Our Master," they answered, "is absent upon a long journey.

  • And their dirge swept across the desert as they answered as she called: "Thy Master, O my people, has started upon a long journey.

  • To dream of traveling in Europe, foretells that you will soon go on a long journey, which will avail you in the knowledge you gain of the manners and customs of foreign people.

  • To see the ghost of a dead friend, foretells that you will make a long journey with an unpleasant companion, and suffer disappointments.

  • To dream of going abroad and meeting the emperor of a nation in your travels, denotes that you will make a long journey, which will bring neither pleasure nor much knowledge.

  • If you are cold and feel hungry, you will be forced to make a long journey to settle some unpleasant affair.

  • To dream of distance, signifies travel and a long journey.

  • When it became evening, Moowis said he must go now, as he had a long journey to make.

  • He has not gone to the Happy Hunting Ground," he said, "but the Great Spirit has called his spirit to go on a long journey.

  • The handier one's sledging outfit, the sooner one gets into the tent and to rest, and that is no small consideration on a long journey.

  • In my opinion, on a long journey such as that we had before us, the ski must be perfectly steady.

  • For that matter, everything was prepared in advance, but as yet we had had no experience of a long journey.

  • But that I judge I listen to a voice whose behests must not be disputed," answered the yeoman, "I would send a shaft after the skulking villain that should spare him the labour of a long journey.

  • British or Canadian origin, as I wish to afford you all the amusement in my power, deign to accompany me on my long journey.

  • My dear husband was to be the companion of my long journey in search of health.

  • Thy lucid waves are flowing: Thy waters sparkle as they run, Their long, long journey going.

  • Was there anything which came from our own neighborhood, and which did not have to take a long journey either to the factory where it was manufactured or to the store where it was sold?

  • They have carried people, food and clothing on a long journey.

  • Which had to come a long journey before it reached your home?

  • After a long journey he reached a hostile town where the people said they were glad to see him, and added that because he was the first of his people who had dared to enter their town they intended to keep him there.

  • He at once set about preparing things for a long journey, for he was determined to try at least to fulfil the command.

  • He was a long time in persuading his parents to allow him to go, however, for it was a long journey, and they feared that the king might not be gracious.

  • His soul will travel a long journey to the land of spirits.

  • He collected his implements of war and hunting, and, telling his mother he was going on a long journey, he left the village.

  • In her dreams she had travelled a long journey, and was seated on the river shore, to rest her tired limbs.

  • So he determined to go on a long journey, where he might meet with some adventures.

  • My good friends all, you came to-night to bid me Godspeed on a long journey and I came to bid you farewell.

  • She went downstairs to the matron and asked for half an hour, only that she might see a friend away on a long journey, and that was refused too.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "long journey" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    long afore; long afterward; long breath; long chase; long discourse; long hairs; long knife; long life; long look; long narrow; long night; long past; long period; long rope; long tail; long talk; long term; long thoughts; long tyme; long walk; longer believe; longer knew; longer necessary; longtemps que; sweet peas; war against