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Example sentences for "long"

Lexicographically close words:
lonesome; lonesomeness; lonesomer; lonesomest; lonesum; longa; longam; longan; longboat; longboats
  1. Two or three hours' boil is deemed long enough in many well-conducted breweries; but in some of those in Belgium, the boiling is continued from 10 to 15 hours, a period certainly detrimental to the aroma derived from the hop.

  2. The process is not tedious, and in experienced hands it may rival the cupel in rapidity; it has the advantage over the cupel of being more within the reach of ordinary operators, and of not requiring a long apprenticeship.

  3. The Phenician processes seem to have been learned by the Crusaders, and transferred to Venice in the 13th century, where they were long held secret, and formed a lucrative commercial monopoly.

  4. Potash is preferable to soda for making optical crown glass, because the latter alkali is apt to make a glass which devitrifies and becomes opalescent, by long exposure to heat in the annealing process.

  5. Lime water, or rather milk of lime, is an excellent vehicle for keeping eggs in, as I have verified by long experience.

  6. These decoctions may be employed immediately, as by this treatment they have acquired the same property as they otherwise could get only by being long kept.

  7. It has been observed long ago, that the siliceous and steel dust thrown off by the stones, was injurious to the eyes and lungs of the grinders; and many methods have been proposed for preventing its bad effects.

  8. Long Room, on the same day, a depression of 34 deg.

  9. The greater part of the vegetable albumen is thus coagulated, and must be separated by a fresh filtration; the liquid is afterwards treated with alcohol as long as the flocculent precipitate of diastase falls.

  10. I pass a long thread through the eye-hole E of the bolt, and then draw the two ends through the tube by a fine wire with a hook to it, one end on one side of the cross wire D, and the other end on the other side.

  11. Too long continuance of boiling is injurious to the beauty of the dye.

  12. By-an'-by" Brown conceived that the appearance of Long Bill Tweak would instantly work a miracle upon the maid.

  13. I 'lowed I wouldn't stay very long in a state o' grace if I done that.

  14. Both enjoyed it--were relieved by it: rid of the gathered thought of long hours alone on the grounds.

  15. Low I'll be goin' on," said Long Bill Tweak, making for the windy day.

  16. The maid fled in a fright to the inner room, and closed the door upon herself; but Long Bill Tweak swaggered in.

  17. Afore long the first hand give up an' got in his berth.

  18. It was Saturday--long after night, the first snow flying in the dark.

  19. Long Bill Tweak contented himself with the hospitality of "By-an'-by" Brown.

  20. You isn't been here long enough t' know, parson,' says he.

  21. This brought back a long reply, which made it necessary for Benjamin to pen an answer.

  22. But we have cited the incident to show that the filial love and respect which Benjamin had for his parents continued as long as they lived.

  23. He cared very little whether the trade was popular, so long as it was indispensable and useful.

  24. Now he was neither a tallow-chandler nor a cutler, though not destined to be long without employment.

  25. His long absence and silence convinced her that he had ceased to regard her with affection; in consequence of which, at the earnest persuasion of her parents, she married a potter by the name of Rogers.

  26. I have lived, sir, a long time; and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth, that God governs in the affairs of men.

  27. A whistle," he answered, hardly stopping his blowing long enough to give a reverent reply.

  28. Benjamin was not long in printing the two ballads, and having them ready for sale.

  29. His sons were thus brought into their society, and they listened to long discussions upon subjects of a scientific, political, and religious character, though public measures received a large share of attention.

  30. After I have eaten my meal, I usually read as long as that before you return from dinner.

  31. She had not proceeded far when a squall struck her, tore her rotten sails to pieces, and drove her upon Long Island.

  32. At the time, he was obliged to hold long parleys with conscience, which told him that he ought still to visit the sanctuary, and devote Sabbath hours to sacred duties.

  33. He had not laboured long at the business before he was quite fascinated with it.

  34. They could get little or no fresh air, and both wondered how long they could stand the confinement.

  35. Yes, and as they have had a good start, they must be a long way off by now," added Tom.

  36. There won't be any use of the ladies and girls going down to the river, so long as the Dora is missing," said Sam.

  37. Up came an ugly-looking head, the object whipped around swiftly, and the next instant the boys found themselves confronted by a swamp snake all of six feet long and as thick as a man's wrist!

  38. How long do you calculate they'll remain in this condition?

  39. They had a game of tag and kept poor Hans "it" for a long while, until, in fact, the German youth was out of breath and had to give it up.

  40. In the meantime Sid Jeffers went on a hunt for liquor, and finding a bottle took a long drink, and then passed it over to Sack Todd and the others.

  41. Sam, after what seemed to be a long pause.

  42. Nobody had the least desire to go to sleep, even though the long swim had made each boy rather tired.

  43. Well, I don't see anything of the houseboat," announced Dick, as he stood on a seat and took a long and careful look around.

  44. It was a long time before they saw Dan Baxter again.

  45. I don't care what you do, so long as we can get away from the officers of the law," said the bully.

  46. He's a long way from being dead, by his voice," said Dick.

  47. The rudder went over in a jiffy and out went three long sweeps.

  48. Now you fellows can talk it over as long as you like," said Gasper Pold.

  49. The air grew chill now the sun had gone, and it was long since the men had fed; but they still sat silent round the smouldering fire.

  50. I've been back long enough to learn that.

  51. By every fire a black-fellow camped on his journey over the plain--the journey that every man must take when the days of his life were done; for in the long ago a man had strained till he found what the black patch was.

  52. The size of the stream was steadily maintained, and no tributary rills were found to run into it, the long season of drought having apparently dried them all up.

  53. Always had she gone alone, persistently declining Dickson's offers to accompany her until he had ceased to make them, and always riding to that one long stretch of level land, a gallop over which was as a tonic to her mind and body.

  54. Were he not gone, The woodchuck could say whether it's like his Long sleep, as I describe its coming on, Or just some human sleep.

  55. I stand and make myself repeat out loud The advantages it has, so long and narrow, Like a deep piece of some old running river Cut short off at both ends.

  56. Cling to it long enough, and not a doubt It will turn true again, for so it goes.

  57. That's a long time To live together and then pull apart.

  58. What had how long it takes a birch to rot To do with what was in the darkened parlour.

  59. I've told you how once not long after we came, I almost provoked poor Loren to mirth By going to him of all people on earth To ask if he knew any fruit to be had For the picking.

  60. One wasn't long in learning that she thought Whatever else the Civil War was for It wasn't just to keep the States together, Nor just to free the slaves, though it did both.

  61. You've been in long enough: It's time you turned around and boosted us.

  62. I always have felt strange when we came home To the dark house after so long an absence, And the key rattled loudly into place Seemed to warn someone to be getting out At one door as we entered at another.

  63. It may not be right on the very top: It wouldn't have to be a long way down To have some head of water from above, And a good distance down might not be noticed By anyone who'd come a long way up.

  64. And the Lord said to Samuel: How long wilt thou mourn for Saul, whom I have rejected from reigning over Israel?

  65. For as long as the son of Isai liveth upon earth, thou shalt not be established, nor thy kingdom.

  66. And said to her: How long wilt thou be drunk?

  67. I asked him to be as expeditious as possible, for I was too weak to stand long and my head was a-whirl from the effects of la grippe.

  68. This caricature verifies the Fawkes advertisement, reproduced on page 64, for here the conjurer is pictured leaning from the window of the "long room" and calling attention to his performances.

  69. This agreement is too long for reproduction in this volume, but unquestionably it is genuine and tells all too eloquently the troubles which beset Bosco in his old age.

  70. That he might bask for a few hours in public adulation, he purloined the ideas of magicians long dead and buried, and proclaimed these as the fruits of his own inventive genius.

  71. The air seemed charged with a quality which I presumed was the intense pleasure of realizing my long cherished hope of meeting the great magician.

  72. Unfortunately for the Wizard, his performances were attacked by a mortal disease; too long a stay in London had ended by producing satiety.

  73. To my unsophisticated mind, his "Memoirs" gave to the profession a dignity worth attaining at the cost of earnest, life-long effort.

  74. Like to the Indian jugglers, he swallows the blade of a sabre about thirteen inches long of polished steel.

  75. The dust of years has been swept from names long forgotten, which should forever shine in the annals of magic.

  76. I believe he exaggerated his feat, for that would have been taking long chances.

  77. For Michelet to write the history of his country was to describe the long evolution of a hero.

  78. Rostand, and had a long talk with him about his work and ambitions.

  79. The German school has made a long step in advance, and I can now foresee a day not far distant when, under its influence, your music will closely resemble our own.

  80. They will listen with the same bland contentment to either bad or good performances so long as a world-renowned artist (some one who is being paid a comfortable little fortune for the evening) is on the stage.

  81. She has a perfectly distinct idea of what she wants, and has lived so long in the atmosphere of wealth that existence without footmen and male cooks, horses and French clothes, appears to her impossible.

  82. If this proves so, and it seems probable, it only proves how the humble long for something more graceful than their meagre homes afford.

  83. In comparison with such an existence the life of the average “summer girl” is one long frolic, as varied as that of her aristocratic sister is monotonous.

  84. There is so much wealth in this city and so little opportunity for its display, so many people long to go about who are asked nowhere, that the opera has been seized upon as a centre in which to air rich apparel and elbow the “world.

  85. In that wondrous palace of Versailles all things had long ceased to be real.

  86. They know that once in possession of their weapons they could soon reclaim all they gave--and in no long time the attempt was made.

  87. He Orientalized himself in a small way, perhaps in imitation of Alexander the Great, and, dressed in the long flowing robes of the country, he made his attendants serve him with prostrations, and almost with worship.

  88. He was not long in fixing on a certain Bernard de Goth, Archbishop of Bordeaux, the most greedy and unprincipled of the prelates of France, and appointed a meeting with him to settle the terms of a bargain.

  89. Constantly crossing the frontiers, and willingly received in the Roman ranks, the communities who had been long settled on the Roman confines were not the utterly uncultivated tribes which their name would seem to denote.

  90. Her coming had long been expected; and, now that it had really happened, people looked back at the difficulties of the route and thought the whole march a miracle.

  91. It would have taken a long time in the course of nature to supply their place; but nature was not allowed to have her way.

  92. My soule doth say that wee must goe before, Narcisse will overtake vs at the shore; And that that mockt vs both, deformed dwarfe, Will er't bee long arive at Charons wharfe.

  93. From this we gather that Francis Clark had not been long appointed to his office; that he was twenty-four years of age, a Worcestershire man, and of humble birth.

  94. Above these, and not far below the tops of the pillars, will be fixed a parallel series of long and short rails, fixed into position with doll pins and glue.

  95. Now saw a piece just as long as the cylinder is wide.

  96. This can be oblong at the ends and triangular at the sides; but the shape is quite immaterial so long as the "shy" is properly shut in.

  97. At the two ends of a small match-box tray, long stales are glued, projecting underneath to act as short legs to keep the tray from the ground.

  98. Stretching from pillar to pillar and glued to the base will be three pieces--one a long one, approximately 4-1/2 in.

  99. First cut two strips of wood, half an inch wide and as long as you can get them, which will be 8 or 9 in.

  100. Now if you twirl the match in your fingers, and release it suddenly, the top will spin for quite a long time.

  101. While not very substantial, these little weights will last quite a long time, if they are handled with care.

  102. For the stack you can use a long thin cotton reel, or, better still, you can fix on another small tin by the method shown in Fig.

  103. So long as the bowl part of the glass is intact, it does not matter to what extent the stem or foot part has been damaged, provided there is enough of the stem remaining to insert in a wooden block.

  104. A small match box is taken and along one long edge of the top a piece of stale is glued, projecting 1/4 in.

  105. These must be secured in place by long thin screws driven in from the back--the correct holes having been bored in the base board.

  106. Very short pieces glued into an upright position between the two long parallel rails add to the stability of the structure and improve the appearance (Fig.

  107. I have lived a free life too long to wish for--what I should come in for if I established my claim.

  108. And before very long he turned to his companion, who was laboriously reading the inscription on a great box-tomb which stood against the north wall.

  109. But of course, those of us about here knew of how things stood long before that.

  110. First--why had he come forward after this long interval?

  111. Methley turned to his partner, who immediately thrust a hand in his breastpocket and produced a long envelope.

  112. In spite of all he asserts, and his long tale this morning at the police-court, I believe he's a rank impostor!

  113. But I remained in hospital, in a sort of semiconscious state, for a long time--months.

  114. The various documents were somewhat faded with age, and the edges of some were worn as if from long folding and keeping in a pocketbook.

  115. And I see you hail from where I hailed from, many a long year ago.

  116. It seems to me that we might be kept here for a long time.

  117. But Tamara, for all her gentle features, was no weakling; only her life had been a long hibernation; and now the spring had come, and soon the time of the finding of honey and a new life.

  118. Long afterward she would see them in dreams.

  119. Two weeks seemed a long time to wait before he could have all clouds dispersed, all things explained--as she lay in his arms.

  120. You can't, until you have been here a long time, understand their strange natures.

  121. If it is really so I cannot say, I have not been here long enough to judge.

  122. She felt so nervous she almost gave a silly little laugh, but her will won, and her long eyelashes remained resting on her cheek.

  123. One must converse now as long as one can," her neighbor told her, "because the moment we have had coffee everyone will play bridge, and no further sense will be got out of them.

  124. A long wicker chair supported him, while he read a French novel.

  125. All this while Tamara, seated by the saloon stove, was almost growing uneasy at being left so long alone.

  126. It was long after five o'clock before it was all done, and they began to wrap up and say "Goodnight.

  127. Yes, her life had been one long commonplace vista of following leads--like a sheep.

  128. Your mother was very dear to me, long ago, before you were born, we spent a wild season together of youth and happiness.

  129. And all this while, with her long eyelashes resting upon her cheek, Tamara apparently slept peacefully on.

  130. A memory rose up of a scorched neck, and suddenly Tamara's long eyelashes rested on her cheek.

  131. For a long time there was silence, and the great heat caused a mist to swim before her eyes, and an overpowering drowsiness--Oh, heaven!

  132. Summer had come, and the long days when the lizards crawl deep into their crevices and the cattle follow the scanty shade of the box cañons or gather in standing-places where the wind draws over the ridges and mitigates the flies.

  133. As cut after cut was forced into the stream a long row of bobbing heads stretched clear across the river, each animal striving desperately to gain the opposite bank and landing, spent and puffing, far below.

  134. Creede, awed by the long silence, but the little man only bowed his head.

  135. Then for the first time, he drew out the third letter and spread its pages before him--a long letter, full of news, yet asking no questions.

  136. A man stays dead a long time in this dry climate.

  137. Well, you might," conceded the cowboy magnanimously, "if you wait around long enough.

  138. Not until the long Summer had passed could the riding continue; the steers must be left to feed down the sheeped-out range; the little calves must run for sleepers until the fall rodéo.

  139. She paused long enough to bestow a confiding smile upon the rodéo boss, and then hurried on to explain her position.

  140. And the former Secret Service operative recovered the paper long enough to indicate a short news item near the bottom of the first page--an item which bore the headline, "New Fifty-Dollar Counterfeit Discovered.

  141. As long as he has plenty of thrills and excitement, as long as he is able to get some joy out of life, he doesn't give a hang for the risk.

  142. A slip of paper some six inches long and two inches wide," he said, with a smile.

  143. It didn't take long to locate the owner of the fiery tresses.

  144. Rather long for her to make her way to the office of her husband, find he wasn't there, and come right back, wasn't it?

  145. Send a wire to Gregory to get on the job at once and tell New York to turn loose every man they've got--though they've been working on the case long enough, Heaven knows!

  146. Didn't wait long for another assignment, did he?

  147. But Quinn yawned, looked at his watch, and said: "That's entirely too long a story to spin right now.

  148. It wasn't long after he grew up, however, that life on the farm began to pall.

  149. Do you know how long it was between the time that she entered the building and the time she left?

  150. But he was still working for Uncle Sam, and his memory--like that of his employer--was long and tenacious.

  151. Graham, and then, when the girl had produced a miscellaneous collection of money, keys and jewelry from the man's pockets, Spencer allowed him to drop his arms long enough to snap a pair of handcuffs in place.

  152. In the first place there was no telling how long the case would run and he felt that it was the part of wisdom to get all the rest he could in order to start fresh.

  153. If we could have kept the boarding house," in tones of regret, "but there was my long illness and the house was sold torn down for a great factory.

  154. For a long while they thought I never would walk again.

  155. It was the long illness and the changes incident to it that had not only reduced their little store, but broken her health and made her fearful of the future.

  156. Aunt Kate was at the head of the table; she had kept the place so long that Mrs. Crawford would not hear of any change.

  157. She has looked forward to caring for herself so long that I hardly see how she will give it up.

  158. She would keep this generous foster mother as long as she needed love and care.

  159. It took so long and I was so tired, so tired!

  160. There were other evenings when she overcast long seams and pulled bastings, and the last year she had learned to sew on the machine.

  161. Then stretches so serene so instinct with fairy beauty she drew long breaths and dreamed of delightful futures, and what is a girl of sixteen filled with a love of beauty and ambition worth if she cannot dream some grand ventures.

  162. It would have ruined the school for a long while to have it break out here, you know.

  163. Miss Graniss is going to take us down town when the stores are lighted up, but it's so long to wait until evening.

  164. She wrote a letter to her mother's friend Mrs. Searing who was most happy that they had accepted the position, and enclosed a ten-dollar note to buy some of the little things young girls long for.

  165. Think what a nice long holiday he has had!

  166. She gave one long look at the still face.

  167. He begged of me, therefore, to procure for him a rope of sufficient strength and long enough for the purpose.

  168. I strove to excuse myself from so long a stay, imagining it might be inconvenient to them; but whatever I could say availed nothing with the Count and his lady, and I was under the necessity of remaining with them eight days.

  169. I had had too long experience of what was to be expected at their Court to hope much from all the fine promises that were made to me.

  170. He was now destined to bear the remains of her, dead, for whom he had long been dying, and was now as near dying for her loss as he had before been for her love.

  171. He observes a long train of persons in mourning, and remarks the coffin to be covered with a white pall, and that there are chaplets of flowers laid upon the coffin.

  172. I had only the mortification of not being able to visit Mons, agreeably to my promise made to the Comtesse de Lalain, not passing nearer to it than Nivelle, seven long leagues distant from it.

  173. The Countess thought the time long until the night, when she had an opportunity of relating to the Count the conversation she had with me, and the opening of the business.

  174. Our supper was served to us in our respective apartments, Don John being unwilling, after the fatigue of so long a journey, to incommode us with a banquet.

  175. I had a chapel in the park for the purpose, and, as soon as the service of both religions was over, we joined company in a beautiful garden, ornamented with long walks shaded with laurel and cypress trees.

  176. But our happiness was too great to be of long continuance, and fresh troubles broke out betwixt the King my husband and the Catholics, and gave rise to a new war.

  177. This the King granted me for Nerac, provided my husband was not there; but if he should enter it, the neutrality was to cease, and so to remain as long as he continued there.

  178. It was long before the vulgar one saw it, and then he laughed so much that the baby began to cry, and they had to go into the next room for fear of disturbing it.

  179. For long enough, however, I had to wait my inspiration.

  180. I don't care," said I, "as long as she clears you off.

  181. Sir David did not live long to enjoy the stronghold, as you have heard.

  182. On either side of it glittered the blue fiord, dotted with numberless islets, throwing its long arms far inland.

  183. He died in battle not long after, yet he lived long enough to repent of his harshness towards his brother, and to desire to see him again.

  184. The trot had long since given place to a walk, and the walk in turn often became a sheer struggle for progress through the drifts and obstacles of the uncertain road.

  185. Near him was a very good-looking, self-satisfied fellow with long curls, who had evidently been entertaining the company with a performance on a Jew's harp.

  186. He hurried on, yet slowly, by reason of the tangled paths and dense underwood of the forest, listening to the angry tumult behind and wondering how long before the hue and cry began once more.

  187. They present in a moderately connected form the story of a famous epoch in English history, and shed a flood of light on transactions which have long since passed into the region of myth.

  188. How long we might have remained in suspense I can't say, had not Lamb and another fellow, by a combined effort of heroism, dashed arm in arm from bed and secured the matches.

  189. Next instant, the luckless mate, so full of furious life, was smitten bodily into the air, and making a long arc in his descent, fell into the sea at the distance of about fifty yards.

  190. But come out now, and look at this portentous lower jaw, which seems like the long narrow lid of an immense snuff-box, with the hinge at one end, instead of one side.

  191. Immediately, by Starbuck's orders, lines were secured to it at different points, so that ere long every boat was a buoy; the sunken whale being suspended a few inches beneath them by the cords.

  192. And have I not tallied the whale, Ahab would mutter to himself, as after poring over his charts till long after midnight he would throw himself back in reveries--tallied him, and shall he escape?

  193. But already the sable wing was before the old man's eyes; the long hooked bill at his head: with a scream, the black hawk darted away with his prize.

  194. And now suspended in stages over the side, Starbuck and Stubb, the mates, armed with their long spades, began cutting a hole in the body for the insertion of the hook just above the nearest of the two side-fins.

  195. The long rows of teeth on the bulwarks glistened in the moonlight; and like the white ivory tusks of some huge elephant, vast curving icicles depended from the bows.

  196. And heaved and heaved, still unrestingly heaved the black sea, as if its vast tides were a conscience; and the great mundane soul were in anguish and remorse for the long sin and suffering it had bred.

  197. And Maurice Levy contributed a device so pleasant, and so necessary to the prevention of interruption during meetings, that Penrod and Sam wondered why they had not thought of it themselves long before.

  198. Mr. Blakely closed the windows, and, returning to a chair near Margaret, did his share in the production of another long period of quiet.

  199. Laying hands upon it, he jerked it away from Sam, who was a little piqued over the failure of his own efforts, especially as Penrod now produced a sonarous blat--quite a long one.

  200. He had only gasps to feed his straining lungs, and his half-trot, which had long since become a trot, was changed for a lope when Mr. Blakely reached his own best burst of speed.

  201. The black backs and gray heads of the elderly men in the congregation oppressed him; they made him lethargic with a sense of long lives of repellent dullness.

  202. The most dangerous time to give a large children's party is when there has not been one for a long period.

  203. The remnant streaks of old soot-speckled snow left against the north walls of houses have no power to inspire; rather, they are dreary reminders of sports long since carried to satiety.

  204. It went on so long that to both the participants it seemed to be a permanent thing, a condition that had always existed and that must always exist perpetually.

  205. If we stay here very long your mother'll come and send us downstairs.

  206. I wouldn't care if it rained every Sunday as long I lived; but I just like to know what's the reason it had to go and rain to-day.

  207. He was a dog of long and enlightening experience; and he made it clear that the conjunction of Penrod and Sam portended events which, from his point of view, might be unfortunate.

  208. They seem to give out something peculiarly personal, like an echo from a voice that has long been silent.

  209. Long may he live to use the life The hidden goddess gave, To keep unspotted to the end The gentle, just, and brave.

  210. How long has there been a settlement here?

  211. The buccaneer took a long time for his cautious survey of the fo'c's'le.

  212. Jeremy lay long awake that night thinking of many things.

  213. One chanty was being sung up forward, where half a dozen sturdy seamen were heaving at the capstan bars, and another was going amidships as the throat of the long main gaff went to the top.

  214. Up the blue bay they cruised in the fine October weather and came in due time--a very long time it seemed to some aboard--to the roadstead opposite New Castle port.

  215. You'll need a long rest, for in the morning you start overland for New York.

  216. In the long intervals the boy sat, inconspicuous in a corner of the fore-deck, watching the gayly dressed ruffians of the crew, as they threw dice or quarrelled noisily over their winnings.

  217. The sloop, under three reefs and a storm jib, began to make rough weather of it, staggering up and down the long slopes in an aimless, dizzy fashion that made Jeremy and Bob very unhappy.

  218. Through the long still afternoons a pitiless sun blazed into every corner of the deck.

  219. For an endlessly long half-minute the three held their breath, listening.

  220. Bob and Jeremy had been ordered to bed about midnight, but they rose before light, in their excitement, and sunrise found them in the bows with Job, watching the long point of sand behind which they knew the pirates lay.

  221. His eyes were blinking and he could not trust his voice, but the long Yankee knew that the risk he had offered to undertake was appreciated.

  222. You say you know the Indians and trust them as long as they are treated right.

  223. Not long after Bates' original memoir appeared attention was directed to a group of cases which could not be explained on the simple hypothesis there put forward.

  224. From this long series of facts it is concluded that the male of P.

  225. Those who have examined long series of these cases of resemblance among butterflies find it hard to believe that there is not some connection between them apart from climatic influence.

  226. The crossing of philenor has, as it were, induced the three mimicking Papilios to turn dark, but the model has not been long enough in contact with them for the likeness to become a close one.

  227. Consequently the argument brought forward in the earlier part of this chapter against the establishing of such a likeness by a long series of slight variations is equally valid for Muellerian mimicry[37].

  228. Among the species which he took were a large number belonging to the group Ithomiinae, small butterflies of peculiar appearance with long slender bodies and narrow wings bearing in most cases a conspicuous pattern (cf.

  229. Pupa with row of Pupa wrinkled--generally Pupa short with well-marked with long four-sided humps on each short dorsal thoracic horn.

  230. Indeed the tendency in recent years has been to see Muellerian mimicry everywhere, and many of the instances which were long regarded as simple Batesian cases have now been relegated to this category.

  231. Especially is this likely to be true of many forms in South America, of which Bates long ago remarked "that the suspicion of many of the species being nothing more than local modifications of other forms has proved to be well founded.

  232. There is no reason for regarding the change as necessarily brought about by the gradual accumulation of a long series of very small variations through the operation of natural selection.

  233. It may, however, be argued that even an exceedingly low selection rate is able to bring about the elimination of one or other type provided that it acts for a sufficiently long time.

  234. That eminent Christian saint and philosopher, Jacob Boehme, realized his vast knowledge of divine things whilst working long hours as a shoemaker.

  235. But whether you engage in these particular meditations or not matters little so long as your object is Truth, so long as you hunger and thirst for that righteousness which is a holy heart and a blameless life.

  236. Her eye fell on the little brown case, long unopened, which held her mother's portrait.

  237. It's often hard enough, even after a long life, to bear with the failings of others, and to understand our own.

  238. So Delia would run over to the Vicarage whenever she could spare time, or join Anna in long country rambles, and on these occasions it was she who listened, and Anna who did most of the talking.

  239. Her voice sounded kind, almost as it used to long ago, although there was a sort of shyness in her manner.

  240. It was not until she was half-way down the long hill which led from Pynes to Waverley, that she began to realise what difficulties she had prepared for herself by her silence.

  241. Long after Daisy was out of sight her simple words lingered in Anna's mind.

  242. Mrs Cooper shall stay, and neglect her duties, and spoil your food as long as you like.

  243. Anna sat in sulky silence during this long speech, with her eyes cast down, and a pout on her lips.

  244. Here she was at Waverley, where it was all sunny and delightful; she should not see smoky London, or have any more walks in the Park with her governess, for a long while, perhaps never again.

  245. She hurried out of the room before Mrs Winn could begin another sentence; for long experience had taught her that the subject would not be exhausted for a long while, and that a sudden departure was the only way of escape.

  246. Long before he began to teach me to play, I used to toddle by his side to church, and wait there while he practised on the organ.

  247. Long after he had finished, Mr Goodwin sat with his eyes fixed musingly on the distance, and Delia would not disturb his thoughts by a single word.

  248. He was sitting in his arm-chair by the window, tired and worn, as she had often found him before, after one of his long walks, and held out his kind hand to welcome her as usual.

  249. As long as the resounding notes of the organ continued, she forgot the little bustle of Dornton, and her anger against Anna, and even when the Professor had finished and joined her in the porch, the calming influence remained.


  250. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "long" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    ache; aeon; age; aspire; bull; burn; century; colossal; desire; diffuse; elongate; endless; envy; eternity; extended; extensive; gangling; giant; gigantic; interminable; interminably; languishing; lanky; lasting; lengthened; lengthy; lingering; long; need; overlong; padded; pant; persistently; prolix; prolonged; protracted; purpose; roundabout; sesquipedalian; statuesque; talkative; tall; unrelenting; verbose; viewpoint; windy; wordy; yearn


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    long accustomed; long article; long black; long boiling; long continuance; long detour; long distance; long hair; long hairs; long history; long knives; long moment; long night; long pepper; long range; long service; long side; long speech; long story; long syllable; longer alone; longer doubted; longer existed; longer extant; longer love; longitudinal section