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Example sentences for "long since"

  • Dudley: "hath he not confessed unto thee that he married a wife on his travels, from whom he was divorced, and that she is long since dead?

  • Methinks it is so long since I struck a blow worthy of a man, that I long to be doing, if only to keep my hand in practice.

  • It is long since my bosom's stains were wiped out by authority of Holy Church, and my soul languishes for forgiveness.

  • To such a one, there can be no new dawn of the heart; no sun can gild its cold and cheerless horizon; no breeze can revive pulses that have long since ceased to throb with any chance emotion.

  • It is long since my poor dwelling has been so highly honored.

  • A watch-tower then had crowned each eminence, every vestige of which had, however, long since disappeared.

  • So long since," he repeated--and then considered for a moment.

  • He ought to have put himself right with Lucilla long since.

  • Then Drances took the word, who grudg'd, long since, The rising glories of the Daunian prince.

  • Long since, the last dollar of the mortgage was paid and our home freed from debt.

  • It was not so long since that I could have forgotten.

  • It is long since I have enjoyed anything so much as I did those patrol trips of ours on the "last tour" between midnight and sunrise, which earned for him the name of Haroun al Roosevelt.

  • Long since--there your sister is moving and has opened her eyes--now she has shut them again.

  • Finally she hid her hair under her veil, which had slipped off her head long since, but, almost by a miracle, had caught and remained hanging on the brooch of her peplum.

  • It is so long since I read it that I don't recollect.

  • No, I don't know about that, because it is long since I knitted any for the shops.

  • No; it is long since I read the lease, but I don't think there is anything of that sort in it.

  • It is long since I have felt how unreasonable it was to throw any blame upon you--the mere and passive instrument of fate.

  • Thank you, Sir,--it is long since I have been in these parts.

  • I have by me some scattered pieces of poetry when a boy; they were given me by his poor father, long since dead; and are full of a dim, shadowy anticipation of future fame.

  • Ask yon Saxon if his Yule feast is less sacred to him now because it is not so long since that it was Woden's.

  • It was not so long since that a west Welshman would not so much as eat with a Saxon, so great was the hatred they had for us, though that had worn off more or less.

  • It is long since I have read any of then; but Virgil and Apulius do, if I mistake not, speak of this power over the elements.

  • It is long since, and my memory waxes dim on some subjects, or I should wish to convey some notion of the manner in which the pleasant creature described the circumstances of his own wedding-day.

  • The throng of merchants was here--the quick pulse of gain--and here some forms of business are still kept up, though the soul be long since fled.

  • It's long since we've stretched ourselves, Come, let us help you!

  • It's long since I've seen you, My dearly-loved daughter, But could I have known How the baggage would treat you!

  • It isn't long since, mind, That many were flogged there, One man in each ten.

  • Had dark Maramma's zealot tribe but murmured to me as this old man, long since had I, been wise!

  • His uttermost uncle was nephew to the niece of Queen Zmiglandi; who flourished so long since, she wedded at the first Transit of Venus.

  • I composed it long, long since, when Yillah yet bowered in Odo.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    long bones; long chair; long cruise; long delay; long drive; long experience; long friend; long gallery; long hair; long known; long minute; long range; long ride; long service; long strip; long talk; long till; long while; long white; longer love; longer needed; longer possible; longer thought; overflight and navigation permitted; sometimes written; various churches