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Example sentences for "long while"

  • After this figure he was silent a long while, till he added: "It would just suit me.

  • I ought not to stay like this," she murmured, when she had remained in the position a long while.

  • She used to drag her mattress beside her low window and lie awake for a long while, vibrating with excitement, as a machine vibrates from speed.

  • Mrs. Kronborg had been looking forward to this excursion for a long while, but as Ray never knew at what hour his freight would leave Moonstone, it was difficult to arrange.

  • Tillie got a cold reception at rehearsals for a long while afterward, and Thea had a crop of new enemies without even knowing it.

  • But I didn't get over it for a long while.

  • Sitting in the arbor one morning, under the ripe grapes and the brown, curling leaves, with a pen and ink on the bench beside him and the Gluck score on his knee, Wunsch pondered for a long while.

  • That was unpardonable, and Amy took no more notice of him for a long while, except a word now and then when she came to her chaperon between the dances for a necessary pin or a moment's rest.

  • A letter from Washington added to their trouble, for Mr. March had had a relapse, and could not think of coming home for a long while.

  • I was very grateful for his kindness, and would be his friend, but nothing more, for a long while.

  • But when he observed that the prince was seated beside Nastasia Philipovna, he could not take his eyes off him for a long while, and was clearly amazed.

  • Do you know, Lizabetha Prokofievna, that I have dreamed of meeting you for a long while?

  • I have been here a long while," replied Colia, who was at the front door when the general met him.

  • I've been observing him for a long while.

  • The general, however, regretted Totski for a long while.

  • As it was, the lump in his throat stayed there a long while, but it passed in the excitement of that mad race down the river.

  • The master was an orphan, too, he said with a slow smile; he had been an orphan for a long while, and indeed the lonely struggle of his own boyhood was what was helping to draw him to Chad.

  • Then Chad looked at the little girl a long while, and in such a queer way that Melissa turned her face shyly to the red star.

  • And at last he got up and with an uplifted candle, looked a long while at the portrait of his grandfather that hung on the southern wall.

  • The Judge has not shifted his position for a long while now.

  • He must toast his slippers a long while, in order to get rid of the chilliness which the air of this vile old house has sent curdling through his veins.

  • Thus Zikali lay for a long while till I began to wonder whether he were not really dead.

  • He talked with me for quite a long while, for he had much to tell me, although all the time I felt that his heart was not in his talk.

  • At their words will I now chew a long while as at good corn; small shall my teeth grind and crush them, until they flow like milk into my soul!

  • When, however, it had been still there for a long while, he looked behind, and saw Zarathustra standing trembling.

  • And I considered a long while, and trembled.

  • For a long while I hunted about without seeing anything, except one duiker buck, which bounded off with a crash from the other side of a stone without giving me a chance.

  • He was called Hendrik, and was very fond of me; but for a long while he would not listen to my plan, because he said that the babyans would kill us.

  • She looked at it for a long while, then crept up moaning, took the milk from my hand, drank it greedily, and afterwards ate the fruit.

  • To you my touch will always be a martyrdom, you will always loathe me, and therefore I shall not weary of you for a long while.

  • This was after a long while, as we estimate happenings.

  • Biatritz said, "It is a long while since we two met.

  • He waited thus for a long while, because he was not used to find chance dealing kindlily with him.

  • Thus these spent people sat and talked for a long while, the talk veering anywhither just as chance directed.

  • After which he gave a chuckle, and staggered to a couch, on which he tumbled, and lay with his eyes open for a long while.

  • A stiff breeze had blown for some days, which made the rollers worse than they had been for a long while.

  • I greatly fear, however, that all he has discovered is death; for this letter came a long while ago, and nobody has heard a single word of the party since.

  • She gazed rather a long while at him without answering, and, in spite of the shadow in which he was standing, she saw, or fancied she saw, both the expression of his face and his eyes.

  • I'd been meaning to tell you something for a long while, mamma: did you know that Levin meant to make Kitty an offer when he was here the last time?

  • He made no sign when Sapt finished, but stood as he was, motionless, for a long while.

  • For a long while (or long it seemed) they were on my face; at last, as though drawn by some irresistible force, they turned away.

  • For a long while I stood thus, musing and dreaming; I was roused by the sound of the door opening and closing; turning, I saw the queen.

  • I haven't read anything so amusing for a long while," answered Rupert.

  • I can say nothing as yet about it; there will be a long while to wait; perhaps for some years we may have a hard time of it; but I shall find out how to make a commercial article at last.

  • Bargeton was of the opinion that he was making a brilliant marriage, for he expected that in no long while M.

  • It lasted a long while, and swept from the face of the earth my wife and my aunt herself and my strength.

  • When I saw him to the door, he was, I fancied, purposely a long while putting on his coat.

  • Twice he kissed my hand without a word, and looked a long while into my tear-stained face.

  • He has been calling me that for a long while, for the last six years.

  • Then stood Regin staring on the earth a long while, and presently thereafter spake from heavy mood: "Mine own brother hast thou slain, and scarce may I be called sackless of the deed.

  • Yea, let the son fare After the father, And no young wolf A long while nourish!

  • A long while I wandered, Long my mind wavered, Ere the kings I might ask Concerning my king.

  • For the word once spoken, I sorrow sorely-- His queen is Gudrun, I am wed to Gunnar; The dread Norns wrought for us A long while of woe.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    down and; long been; long bones; long continued; long day; long friend; long gallery; long interval; long intervals; long line; long peace; long period; long robe; long season; long suit; long thin; long trip; long visit; longer any; longer extant; longer love; longer needed; longer the; longitudinal section; tout est; went afterwards