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Example sentences for "long space"

  • At their departure out of life, they vse mourning mixt with singing, which continueth for a long space.

  • Others, however, understand not here an eternity of damnation (for it is the general doctrine of the Mohammedans that none who profess that faith shall continue in hell for ever), but only a long space of time.

  • DID there not pass over man a long space of time; during which he was a thing not worthy of remembrance?

  • And remember when Moses said unto his servant Joshua the son of Nun, I will not cease to go forward, until I come to the place where the two seas meet; or I will travel for a long space of time.

  • For they ran in pursuit of the Comans for at least two leagues, and joined issue with them, and chased them a long space.

  • Thus, for a long space, the armies of the pilgrims and of the Greeks stood one against the other; for the Greeks did not dare to throw themselves upon our ranks, and our people would not move from their palisades.

  • So the war lasted a long space, till the heart of the winter.

  • These were all elements to be regarded in the determination of 'fair rent;' they ought to have been examined with care; and inquiries on these matters should have extended over a long space of time.

  • At the place of execution he did not appear at all terrified at death, but submitted to it with the same resignation which for a long space he had professed since his being under confinement.

  • They had carried on this detestable practice for a long space in almost all those roads which lead to the little villages whither people go for pleasure from the hurry and noise of London.

  • Whether he had been bred to any employment or not I am not able to say, but that which he followed was sweeping of chimneys, the profits of which he eked out with thefts, in which he continued undiscovered for a long space of time.

  • They continued this practice for a long space of time with safety, but being one night out in Little Queen Street, by Lincoln's Inn Fields, between one and two in the morning they stopped a chair in which was the Hon.

  • Thus we parted in better cheer than we had deemed we might, and the lovers might yet for a long space signal to each other by the waving of hat and of kerchief.

  • And a long space of time he rideth, until one day he cometh to the head of a forest, and he espied his way that ran between two mountains and saw that he had to pass along the midst of the valley that lay at a great depth.

  • The King was before the coffin a long space, and looked right fainly on the hermit, for well it seemed him that he had been of a good life.

  • I did not dare so much as to stir from where I stood, but watched him for a long space of time with incredible anxiety.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    cold climates; five pesos; long account; long and; long beard; long black; long delay; long drive; long intervals; long knife; long pause; long periods; long range; long room; long rows; long season; long stretch; long succession; long syllable; long table; long talk; long time; long voyages; longer any; longer necessary; longer period