They had toiled so long and so faithfully that the work of watching and scouting that night could be intrusted to others.
He heard it faintly above the even beat of the rain, a soft sound, long and sighing, but regular.
All at once he paused, and leaning upon his cane, his piercing eyes looked at me so long and searchingly, that his glance deeply entered into my heart.
Bonaparte fixed so long and glowing a look on the princess that Marianne blushed, while the jealous heart of Josephine began to ache.
The admiral listened to him silently and attentively; and then he raised his eyes to the sky and scanned it long and searchingly.
I will not permit them to entertain any illusions concerning myself; hence I have spoken so long and plainly.
From this point of view we can perhaps understand why mistletoe has so long and so persistently been prescribed as a cure for the falling sickness.
Thus in some villages of West Prussia the Old Woman is made twice aslong and thick as a common sheaf, and a stone is fastened in the middle of it.
It will be long and laborious, but may possess something of the interest and charm of a voyage of discovery, in which we shall visit many strange foreign lands, with strange foreign peoples, and still stranger customs.
Long and cross-country is the drive from Royston Railway Station to Worsted Skeynes.
No paper came on Sundays--not even the local paper, which had so long and so nobly done its bit with headlines to win the war.
He gazed at Mrs. Septimus Small, who took after James--long and thin.
When they passed out of the works they had so long and so gallantly defended, between lines of their late antagonists, not a cheer went up, not a remark was made that would give pain.
We were glad to meet, after so long and eventful an interval, and mutually inquired after our respective families and special acquaintances.
And now let's go and see what interest the Trouts will pay us, for letting our angle-rods lie so long and so quietly in the water for their use.
When I go to dress an Eel thus, I wish he were as long and as big as that which was caught in Peterborough river, in the year 1667; which was a yard and three quarters long.
At Christiania Mr. Gade, the American consul, who had served our country so long and so honorably in that city, took me under his guidance during various interesting excursions about the fiords.
Then she looked on me long and keenly, and said afterward: 'Forsooth I should forbear laying this charge upon thee if I did not deem that thou wouldst be no less than true.
He came to our room one day, and we had quite a long and a very pleasant talk together.
I expected the chapter to end at this point, and his silence which followed seemed long and ominous.
Hay; and Reed, and Twichell, and Howells, and Rogers, the friends he had known so long and loved so well.
She has been so long and so terribly punished for this unhappy passion, that I will give her the consolation of plucking a few scentless blossoms from the grave of her heart.
Have the goodness, then, to tell me why you have pursued me so long and unrelentingly?
He gazed at it long and earnestly; he turned it around, looking at every picture, reading every verse.
His ears resembled those of an elephant, and covered his shoulders; and his nails were as long and crooked as the talons of the greatest birds.
But, son, said Fatima once more, after the manner you understand things, I apprehend you have a mind to be the last king of your race, who have nevertheless reigned so long and gloriously in the isles of the Children of Khaledan.
One afternoon the fight had been long and exhausting.
The pursuit turned out to be long and tortuous, leading at last to the vast forests of scholastic science.
They prove the leading and original mind which has so long and so advantageously labored for this country.
You will readily understand from this that to the actor the well-worn maxim that art is long and life is short has a constant significance.
And when he did her sense of personal responsibility left her, as well as her clearer comprehension of what had happened to bring about this climax so long and so ardently desired.
Ordinarily I keep up very well, for I have character enough to make the best of life, whatever happens; but one can control one's heart with one's will just so long and no longer.
Senator Shattuc's waved like a golden fan from his powerful jaw; but the Democratic appendage opposite was long and narrow, and whisked over the Senator's shoulder like the tail of a comet, when he became heated in controversy.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "long and" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
