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Example sentences for "long standing"

  • Next day an autopsy was held at which it was stated that a child apparently about ten years of age, "which the commissioners told us was the late Louis Capet's son," had died of a scrofulous affection of long standing.

  • These pamphlets contain an extreme statement of the anti-war party and defend impressment as a right of long standing.

  • I have my information from a curer of long standing, but who is not now in the trade.

  • Has this arrangement been of long standing?

  • When a certain bookcase, long standing in one place, for which it was built, was removed, there was the exact image on the wall of the whole, and of many of its portions.

  • In many instances of chronic folliculous pharyngitis evidently of long standing, and accidentally discovered at times to the surprise of the patient, no history of the classical group of symptoms can be obtained.

  • He went about [the prison] freely, as being a prisoner of so long standing, and aided the jailer greatly by acting as guard to the other prisoners; and he supported himself very comfortably on what he gained by his pen.

  • For acting master-of-camp the governor appointed General Alonso Lopez, a soldier of long standing, and also very aged; and therefore he did not long serve in that office.

  • However, in a general way, cases of recent affection are thought more favorable than are those of long standing or in old animals where myositis and other muscular and fascial affections exist owing to years of hard service.

  • When synovial distensions are of long standing, it is necessary to take special precautions to check excessive secretion of synovial fluid, and, also because of the atonic condition of the tissues affected, resolution is tardy.

  • In cases of long standing, ulceration often occurs, usually limited to the neighbourhood of the stricture.

  • Tumours, solid or nearly so, arising from diseased bursa of long standing, may sometimes require to be so treated.

  • Or rather, it may be the same thing with inflammable air, that has lost its inflammability by long standing in water.

  • This farther diminution, by long standing, I had not observed at the time of the first publication of these papers.

  • Mendes--the other title being a trade nom de plume of long standing--is a gentleman by nature, and a true friend to all strangers who seek his counsels on arriving at Rio.

  • The same incubus which was of so long standing in Mexico, where its effect kept the people in ignorance and ferment for centuries, has at last been abolished, and modern progress naturally follows.

  • Defn: To turn sour and coagulate from too long standing, as milk.

  • When the corn is of long standing, or is due to repeated injuries on the same spot, the horn adjacent to the lesion becomes hard and dry, and often abnormally brittle, simply on account of the inflammatory changes thus kept in continuation.

  • Contraction of long standing, where atrophy of the sub-lying, soft structures and the pedal bone may be expected, will prove obstinate to treatment.

  • Recent when newly formed; old when of long standing.

  • In applying surgical shoes for corn of long standing, it must be remembered that the protection so afforded must be continued for some time.

  • As to promises of writing, I shall make you none, my dear Bill, till those already on hand, and of long standing, are discharged.

  • His mind retained much of its vigour, and his memory, as to events of long standing, seemed to be unimpaired.

  • The first relief I felt was from sick headache, which I had been troubled with for many years; I was also cured of a very bad cough which I had been troubled with for many years, and of dyspepsia of long standing.

  • Reader, if you suffer from chronic nasal catarrh, do not expect to be very speedily cured, especially if your case is one of long standing.

  • In a very large number of bad cases of catarrh, or those of long standing, the disease has crept along and extended high up in the nasal passages, and into the various sinuses or cavities, and tubes communicating therewith.

  • The same medicine also did great things for my now deceased husband in a case of erysipelas of long standing.

  • All that concerns devotion and the ceremonies of the church makes a marvelous impression upon them, and they set an example to Christians of long standing.

  • New Giant, Prickley or Winter, Long Standing, Victoria Long Standing, New Zealand Squash.

  • In cases of long standing friendship, you will not, of course, stand upon the ceremony of waiting for each and every one of your calls to be returned before paying another, but be careful that you are not too lavish of your visits.

  • Still, if a friend of long standing solicits a correspondence, and your parents or husband approve and permit compliance with the request, it would be over-prudish to refuse.

  • Even where there is a long standing friendship it is not well to visit uninvited.

  • I am pleased to introduce you, certain that the acquaintance thus formed, between two friends of mine, of so long standing and so much beloved, will be pleasant to both parties.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    being quite; four braccia; guard against; long account; long after; long afterwards; long bones; long chair; long continued; long conversation; long grass; long hairs; long knives; long line; long night; long season; long service; long slant; long strip; long term; long thin; long till; long visit; longer afraid; longer extant; longer necessary