"long" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- It was in a time of profound peace, then enjoyed for five years, and promising a much longer continuance, that they had recourse to this desperate trifling.
- Besides, it is a work for many hands, and of long continuance; so that ballast men do more harm than good.
- I congratulated her (as she addressed herself to me) upon this fortunate addition to her income and wished her a long continuance of it.
- But these extraordinary powers appear not to have been of long continuance.
- It was put on at the Carnegie Lyceum with considerable effect, but it was not of sufficient importance to warrant a long continuance.
- The long continuance of the calm had now affected the atmosphere.
- I saw nothing in this country that could invite me to a longer continuance, and began to think of returning home to England.
- The long continuance of hostilities without any decisive result produced some discontent in the Ahom camp.
- But now thy uncle is removing hence, As princes do their courts when they are cloy'd With long continuance in a settled place.
- The competition, however, of which they gave this doleful account, had not been allowed to be of long continuance.
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