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Example sentences for "long continuance"

  • This extensive clearness may have been produced by a long continuance of northerly winds.

  • The harp was strung with wire, which gives a sound of long continuance, and had no contrivance like that in the modern harpsichord, by which the sound of the preceding could be stopt, the moment a succeeding note began.

  • The juice thereof taken in wine, or the decoction thereof drank, doth help the jaundice, although of long continuance, to drink thereof morning and evening, and abstain from other drink two or three hours after.

  • The English money was to the Austrians, as a shower to a field, where all the vegetative powers are kept unactive by a long continuance of drought.

  • Long continuance of the febrile movement is, however, oftener attributable to some inflammatory complication than to the primary disease.

  • The older writers agreed that even when the tongue does grow dry and brown the condition is not of long continuance, and later observers have confirmed their statements.

  • Peritoneal effusion is absent in cases which run a rapid course, and is distinctly recognizable only in a peritonitis of long continuance.

  • And in effect, of all the countries which he made Christian, there is none to be found which relapsed into idolatry, excepting only the town of Tolo; and not that neither for any long continuance.

  • Many of these miracles have been of long continuance; and it was an easy matter for such who were incredulous, to satisfy their doubts concerning them.

  • The competition, however, of which they gave this doleful account, had not been allowed to be of long continuance.

  • The plenty not only obliges him to sell cheaper, but, in consequence of these improvements, he can afford to sell cheaper; for if he could not afford it, the plenty would not be of long continuance.

  • If such violent methods are necessary to keep up the present price of tobacco, the superior advantage of its culture over that of corn, if it still has any, will not probably be of long continuance.

  • All the prisoners in Mysore, who had survived their horrible captivity, were released; and the tales told by them excited such horror and indignation, that it became evident peace would not be of long continuance.

  • In both houses a motion of adjournment to the 4th of December was made, in order to see whether his majesty's disorder was likely to be of long continuance, which motion was carried nem.

  • The Patient may take twenty Pills, and a Pint and a half of the Whey every Morning for a long Continuance; and receive inwardly, now and then, the Vapour of hot Water.

  • Simple Convulsion Fits, which are not epileptic, are frequently of a long Continuance, persevering, with very few and short Intervals, for Days and even for Weeks.

  • Her retirement was not, however, to be of long continuance.

  • The French king felt the necessity of a respite from war in order to reorganise the resources of his country, exhausted by a long continuance of civil strife; and Philip was ill and already feeling his end approaching.

  • In 1623 a carefully planned expedition against Antwerp, which he confidently expected to succeed, was frustrated by a long continuance of stormy weather.

  • Ozœna, which denotes the internal ulceration of the nose, or rather the discharge indicating such, is generally of long continuance.

  • The state or quality of being durable; the power of uninterrupted or long continuance in any condition; the power of resisting agents or influences which tend to cause changes, decay, or dissolution; lastingness.

  • But our happiness was too great to be of long continuance, and fresh troubles broke out betwixt the King my husband and the Catholics, and gave rise to a new war.

  • I beg you will not be offended with these measures, which, if it so please God, may not be of long continuance.

  • Having acquired a fresh store of strength and spirits, we return to our occupations, that we may thus mingle labour with pleasure, which would lose its zest by long continuance.

  • He replied, "If the peace which ye grant us be a good one, both inviolable and eternal; if bad, of no long continuance.

  • But that the most effectual guarding of it was, that offices of great power should not be of long continuance; and that a limit of time should be set to those to which a limit of jurisdiction could not be set.

  • Bülow's long continuance in office is the best proof of his genius.

  • The climate is mild and healthful, fuchsias and other plants flowering even in winter, and neither snow nor frost being of long continuance, and less rain falling than in many parts of the western coast.

  • But his political career was not of long continuance.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    after dinner; careful study; hundred different; long absence; long account; long after; long afterward; long ago; long boiling; long chase; long discourse; long distance; long gallery; long handle; long lines; long march; long nose; long season; long service; long talk; long voyage; long while; longer able; longer love; poor darling; school again