If you want him to pick up a handkerchief, you put a bit of carrot in it, and after a while they know that you want them to pick it up--but it takes a long time.
Then we run them round the ring with a lunging rein for a long time; then, when they are steady to the ring, we let them run with the rein loose, and the trainer can catch hold of it if they go wrong.
Oh, it takes a long time and a lot of hard work and great patience.
It was a comfort to me a long time afterward to consider that she could not have seen in me the smallest symptom of disrespect.
After this, for a long time, I never saw her, and I wondered that the common chances of the day should not have helped us to meet.
For a long time I lay and watched these red, quivering blotches of light.
I walked across to the Savage Club, but instead of turning into it I leaned upon the railings of Adelphi Terrace and gazed thoughtfully for a long time at the brown, oily river.
The girl sat at the window, fully dressed, and as if she had been sitting there a long time.
The clerk came to take his fare, and Corey looked radiantly up at him in his lantern-light, with a smile that he must have been wearing a long time; his cheek was stiff with it.
It seemed to him a long time since he had drunk that wine.
There was a long timein my misguided youth when I supposed myself some sort of porcelain; but it's a relief to be of the common clay, after all, and to know it.
As it was not for beer they had a long time to wait.
There was a long time to wait, even now, till he would know if she had arrived.
And I won't write to him any more, or at least for a long time, to impress him with my dignity!
But it has been known a long time that it is his plan.
I broke the seal with a great effort--so great a one that I was a long time coming to it; took the unopened missive at last up to my room and only attacked it just before going to bed.
And after a little, when she had got into bed, I had, for a long time, by almost sitting on her to hold her hand, to prove that I recognized the pertinence of my return.
I got out several cords of stumps in plowing, which supplied me with fuel for a long time, and left small circles of virgin mould, easily distinguishable through the summer by the greater luxuriance of the beans there.
I was pleased to see my work rising so square and solid by degrees, and reflected, that, if it proceeded slowly, it was calculated to endure a long time.
For a long time I was reporter to a journal, of no very wide circulation, whose editor has never yet seen fit to print the bulk of my contributions, and, as is too common with writers, I got only my labor for my pains.
When I told him that I wrote considerably, he thought for a long time that it was merely the handwriting which I meant, for he could write a remarkably good hand himself.
You know I hadn't been to school for a long time before I left Wrenville, on account of father's sickness.
His present home was an humble one, but he was provided with every needful comfort, and the atmosphere of kindness which surrounded him, gave him a feeling of peace and happiness which he had not enjoyed for a long time.
Tears of joy bathed her face and she remained there, sobbing for a long time.
For a long time I have been very much hurt by the discoveries I made with regard to his conduct, and I could not feel anything else for him now but affectionate compassion.
It will be horrible for him for a long time, but he is so young.
It is curious to read such books calmly a long time afterwards, books which reflect so exactly the sentiments of a certain epoch.
Charity had lain there a long time, passive and sun-warmed as the slope on which she lay, when there came between her eyes and the dancing butterfly the sight of a man's foot in a large worn boot covered with red mud.
She lay for a long time sleepless on her bed, staring up at the moonlight on the low ceiling; dawn was in the sky when she fell asleep, and when she woke the sun was on her face.
Oh, it was a long time ago I seen her with those gaugings.
It was a long time since he had had anyone of Lucius Harney's quality to talk to: Charity divined that the young man symbolized all his ruined and unforgotten past.
When Roy had gone she sat for a long time in the pavilion, watching a white mist creeping subtly and remorselessly landward up the harbor.
For a long time I couldn't make up my mind which of them to take, and they kep' coming and coming, and I kep' worrying.
It'll be a long time before we get a man like Mr. Allan.
I daresay; but just now I feel that it would take me a long time to get tired of it, if it were all as charming as today.
I have been a long time looking, and I find such women are rare.
But I will see you only on this condition: that you say nothing more in the same way for a long time.
I have known mine for a long time," Newman went on.
I kept her letter a long time afterwards, it was so strangely expressed.
I could not understand her meaning; nor did I for a long time.
For a long time I tried to engage him in conversation upon other matters, but he would not talk, and so, at length, I desisted.
A long time afterward I heard a soft sound at the doorway leading to one of the other apartments, and, looking up, beheld the red Martian youth gazing intently at us.
Even after it passed he sat in his place a long time, watching it lose itself slowly in the distance, its prolonged rumble diminishing to a faint murmur.
For a long time he sat motionless in his place, his elbows on his knees, his chin propped in his hands.
After hesitating for a long moment, he said: "I have been away a long time, and I have had no news of this place since I left.
You've been chewing on this affair now a long time.
Not for a long time had he "felt his poem," as he called this sensation, so poignantly.
Often Paul would wake up, after he had been asleep a long time, aware of thuds downstairs.
You see, I can give you a spirit love, I have given it you this long, long time; but not embodied passion.
She looked at them a long time trying to find fault with them.
I ought to have been in bed a long time ago," she replied.
Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, and forsake us so long time?
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "long time" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
