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Example sentences for "long reign"

  • He further petitioned the Gods to guard him by day and by night and to grant him a long reign.

  • After a short time he was replaced by his brother, Mursil, who appears to have enjoyed a long reign.

  • Eternal life, satisfied with posterity, a secure throne, and a long reign grant as thy gift.

  • Hattusil II must have enjoyed a long reign, but we do not know the date of his death.

  • The relative position of the great religious denominations underwent a slow but important revolution during this long reign.

  • Twenty-seven years is a long reign, and the years of King-Hugh II.

  • In a long reign of thirty-four years, the son and successor of Leo, Constantine the Fifth, surnamed Copronymus, attacked with less temperate zeal the images or idols of the church.

  • In the first and last years of a long reign, the emperor appears to be the slave of sloth, of pleasure, or of superstition, the careless and impotent spectator of the public calamities.

  • Yet the memory of this transient affront was lost in the glories of a long reign; and his formidable enemies, after indulging their dream of conquest, again solicited a short respite from the calamities of war.

  • Nebuchadrezzar had a long reign of nearly forty-three years.

  • This weapon had a long reign, and was used side by side with the latest automatic machine gun in the Spanish-American War of 1898.

  • As has been said, this weapon had a long reign.

  • Alyattes's long reign of fifty-seven years saw the foundation of the Lydian empire.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    each cylinder; long account; long boiling; long course; long cruise; long engagement; long knife; long knives; long last; long letter; long list; long minute; long moment; long pull; long season; long siege; long silence; long since; long slender; long stem; longer able; longer anything; longer existed; longer know; longer young; seat himself