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Example sentences for "long account"

  • A long account of the manner of "receyvyng of the corps of the most noble princes Quene Elizabeth" is given in the City’s Archives.

  • On the 22nd Henry sent a long account of the siege and capture to the mayor and citizens of London, bidding them render humble thanks to Almighty God for this mercy, and expressing a hope of further success in the near future.

  • A long account of his entry into the French capital, and of the pageantry in honour of the occasion, is set out in full in the City’s Records.

  • There is a long account of Achilles Tatius in the Bibliotheca Græca of Fabricius.

  • There is a long account of him left us by Hegesippus, a very ancient Church historian, who bordered on apostolic times, and now preserved for us in the Ecclesiastical History of Eusebius, ii.

  • Cave has a long account of Timothy in his Apostolici, or Lives of the Fathers, pp.

  • In the number referred to there is a long account of Admiral Vernon's attack on Porto Bello, illustrated with a woodcut, which the writer says will give the reader a clearer idea of the position of the town, castle, and ships engaged.

  • Parker's London News gives a long account, with a woodcut, which I have copied.

  • Matthew Paris gives a long account of an absurd quarrel which broke out between this earl of Pembroke and king Henry the Third, when the latter was eating his Christmas dinner at Winchester, in the year 1239.

  • A long account of Hussey's interview at the Tuileries is given by England; and how struck Napoleon was with his arguments and expression.

  • There is a long account of Marie de St. Bernard, by Ragueneau, in the Relation of 1652.

  • Footnote 357: The incidents that happened at Mokha having been already related in the preceding section, we here omit a long account of them by Downton.

  • Footnote 135: Mr Saris gives here a long account of incidents concerning a Dutch fleet outward bound, having no connection with the affairs of Bantam, or with those of the English trade, and which is therefore omitted.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    long afore; long and; long article; long beard; long breath; long continuance; long course; long day; long duration; long handle; long hours; long inscription; long known; long procession; long range; long stick; long story; long talk; long trail; long trip; longer exists; longer seemed; longtemps que; morbid state; provincial life; states that