Now to shorten a long tale, the end of the matter was this.

It's a long tale, and I don't want to have to tell it twice in the same day.

Indeed, his tendency to write longer tales kept him out of a great many magazines.

"I am sorry to force you to tell such a long tale yourself for so little result."

Told by the Merchant, it is a long tale of 3,290 lines.

"All that has happened to me since yesterday will make a rather long tale," the bard said.

How many lives had it taken, over all the long tale of years?

A long tale, like a tall Tower, must be built a stone at a time.

Sometimes his father would spin a long tale round them.