Down to this time the Mahometanism with which Christendom had so long been in conflict was a Mahometanism of civilized peoples.
Anything was better than the life he had so long been leading.
Shortly after his return to the Presidency, from which he had so long been absent, he married; and in the enjoyment of domestic happiness, such as has rarely been surpassed, he soon forgot the injustice that had been done to him.
They arrived in the full glory of recent successes in the Presburg Diet; for, strengthened by the news of the Viennese rising, Kossuth had carried in one day many of the reforms for which his party had so long been contending.
In Bavaria the power exercised by Lola Montez over the King had long beendistasteful to the sterner reformers.
The Marquis threw himself into his brother's arms; Don Ruiz and Dona Marianna imitated him, and for some minutes there was an uninterrupted interchange of embraces among the members of this family, who had so long been separated.
The hour has at length arrived for us to shake off the yoke of this self-called country, which has so long been battening on our blood and tears, and enriching itself with our gold.
Now," he added, in conclusion, "I believe that the moment has arrived to strike the grand blow for which we have so long been preparing.
A flood of tears gave some relief to feelings that had so long been pent, and eased a heart that had been compressed nearly to breaking.
A body can never calcilate on a nigger," answered Stephen, who had the popular American prejudice against the caste that has so long been held in servitude in the land.
Thus, the youth who had so long been a wanderer and an exile, who scarcely knew where to fly for shelter, who was ever in fear of his life, became at last the undisputed monarch of two mighty Saxon kingdoms, the Deira and Bernicia.
Death had at last done his mighty work; and under his dark and awful banner Edwin had distinguished himself; those gloomy gates had opened the way to the kingdom from which he had so long been driven.
Christianity was bursting the bonds in which it had so long been confined, and returning in life and vigour into a world that had forgotten its ancient power.
England came forth victorious from those attacks of the French and Spaniards which the pope had so long been stirring up against her, and the Elector of Brandenburg, in spite of the wrath of Clement XI.
This corruption, of which she had so long been ignorant, she discovered everywhere, now that her eyes were opened.
The deputy-bailiff and his two sons had long been objects of especial dislike on account of their faith.
The look of faded marble, which had so long been seated on his features, vanished, as his eye passed quickly over the scene.
One who had so long been guilty of cowardice and dissimulation was not worthy to be the instrument of salvation to the State and Church.
Between James and Penn there hadlong been a familiar acquaintance.
No foundations were laid there till two generations had passed without any return of the pestilence, and till the ghastly spot had long been surrounded by buildings.
A great crowd had assembled to see the man whose name had long been in the mouths of all.
In Milan the crisis happened which had long been threatening.
Lastly, in money, measures, and weights the substantial equalization of the Latin and Hellenic systems had long been in progress.
About this time too the very elements, against which we had so long been contending, seemed to unite their energies to render our stay in that dreadful region still more intolerable.
These distant indications, however, were sufficient to rouse us to exertion, in the hope of escaping from the fearful captivity in which we had so long been held.
With these limbs these fishes have long been known to attach themselves to sea-weeds, and rather to walk than to swim in their natural element.
Bache, who was present, said that for the first time he understood the bearing of the whole subject, though he had so long been trying to unravel it.
The two children, in utter exhaustion, found a few hours of agitated slumber from the terror with which they had so long been appalled.
Joy gradually returned to that bosom from which it had so long been a stranger.
The commercial rivalry between the colonies, and their disputes over boundary lines, were then quite like the similar phenomena with which Europe had so long been familiar.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "long been" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
