He is a Baptist, belonging to Mount Zion Church, and has attended church regularly and believes that by leading a clean, useful life he has lengthened his days on this earth.
The children wore a one piece garment not unlike a slightly lengthened dress.
He passed the ring over his entire finger, and his yard lengthened out even unto seven versts.
Brady was not deficient in courage; but when he heard the deep sonorous and lengthened tones of St. Paul's clock, as they came swelling on the breeze, a sickening sensation crept over him.
Upon the horizon brooded and lengthened out a band of mist of ashen hue; in the zenith, another band of lead colour.
Others, main arteries of a mysterious circulation, lengthened out in the rock in dark and tortuous fissures.
They were answered by our great dog in lengthened howlings.
It fell before sunrise, and the araguato monkeys had warned us, by their lengthened howlings, of the approaching rain, long before the noise of the cataract increased.
Not until her work of love was ended did Gertrude become conscious that her lengthened labours by night and day had worn upon her frame, and exhausted her strength.
The cavity of the jaw at the same time deepened, and the pulp lengthened downward into the space thus provided; layers of bony substance being gradually deposited upon it, as above.
And would not its presence there bear testimony to the lengthened ovipositor of the well-known brisk and busy fly, and to its remarkable habits?
This lengthened cord is studded, at intervals of a few inches, with whorls of stout and acute prickles which are hooked backwards, and performs an important part in the economy of the plant.
On the flanks of the ravine was a thick chaparral, the commencement of a gloomy virgin forest, from the mysterious depths of which could be heard at intervals the lengthened howling and roar of wild beasts.
There was a lengthened silence, employed by the Indians in conscientiously smoking their calumets.
He fell into a profound reverie, and remained for a lengthened period absorbed in a flood of bitter memories, that oppressed his breast.
Andres held out his arm, which the monk bandaged afresh, and the two men went on talking like friends delighted at meeting again after a lengthened separation.
A few minutes before sunrise; Valentine insisted on his mother taking rest; he feared lest, at her advanced age, after the piercing emotions of such a day, such a lengthened absence of sleep might injure her health.
After a lengthened ascent, made with extraordinary difficulty, the gambusino stood up, making his companions a sign to follow his example.
There was rather a lengthened silence between the two speakers.
Then the French astronomers make their measurements of degrees in equatorial and polar regions, and add to their proofs that of the lengthened pendulum.
Trifolium pratense—Meadow or Broad-leaved Clover—in its wild state is too well known to need any lengthened description.
Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society of England, from which we have extracted some of the following general conclusions as to average yield and weight of corn for the lengthened periods quoted:— 1.
Trifolium pratense—Meadow or broad-leaved Clover,—in its wild state, is too well known to need any lengtheneddescription in order to its being understood.
Standish had, at the intervals of his father's impassioned discourses, many a long and solitary ride and many a lengthened reverie amongst the pines that grow beside The Flats.
There was a rather lengthened silence in that little group before Harwood spoke.
Marble, wrought to warlike trophies, blazons in a lengthened inscription the blighted fame and early death of a blooming warrior, who dragged his sinking frame hither to gaze upon the shining waters, and so to die.
The ship, under the influence of the fresh breeze, which effected her with increasing power as she lengthened her distance from the land, drove steadily astern; and still no warning word came from Price.
I am willing that the time of our separation should be shortened, but it must not be lengthened by so much as a day.
But, Sir, as it is only rarely that such a sudden transition from death to life takes place, by what signs are we to determine its actual occurrence, when it is the result of a more lengthened process?
This led to a somewhat sharp andlengthened encounter.
On making some inquiries as to the length of his confinement, and the nature of his disorder, he made a reply which brought on a lengthened conversation.
Lord Roos acquainted the Countess that he had decided upon travelling into Italy and Spain, and remaining abroad for a lengthened period; and the announcement of his intention was received by her without an objection.
Gladys and Enid had grown a good deal in six months, and now with their lengthened frocks and tied-back hair they looked perhaps older than sixteen.
Gladys and Enid, though they were now fifteen, had not yet lengthenedtheir frocks; their mother could not yet bring herself to contemplate the disappearance of those slim black legs.
The court ordered that the white servants' terms be lengthened four years, and that Punch, the Negro servant, "shall serve his master or his assigns for the time of his natural life.
As this worked well the masters lengthened the term of the Negro servants to life.
No corpse, without special permission, can be kept in the mortuary more than forty-eight hours after death, but this interval can be shortened or lengthened by special order.
Since her return from her wedding trip, which had lengthened to four months amid the delights of Paris, Mrs. Cumberland had found time for only one short visit to her little son.
On the 20th of February the siege began, but the besiegers held out for a lengthened period--three months, it is said.
