One o'clock had been the hour of his return on the last occasion; but it passed now by a long way, and Fitzpiers did not come.
You see, dear, a noisy bell-ringing marriage at church has this objection in our case: it would be a thing of report a long way round.
Beyond this for some distance the wood was more open, and the course which Fitzpiers must pursue to reach the point, if he came to-night, was visible a long way forward.
We've come a long way," said the coachman, climbing onto the box.
Going a long way round by Gazetny Place and Kislovka, he went back again to the hotel, and putting his watch before him, he sat down to wait for twelve o'clock.
She was aware of her husband approaching a long way off, and she could not help following him in the surging crowd in the midst of which he was moving.
The only one is Meidel, and he's not so eloquent by a long way.
It was bright and shining there; and when he found himself so far on his road to Twickenham, he found himself a long way on his road to a number of airier and less substantial destinations.
Let her be as well cared for as any lady in that land, still it is a long way off.
It's undeniably a long way off, Arthur, and a strange place for the poor love under all the circumstances.
The traveller had been at the pains of going a long way up-stairs to his sleeping-room to fetch his pocket-flask of brandy.
My old dear bedroom was changed, and I was to lie a long way off.
It was such a wonderful day that I wanted to be out under the sky for a long time--to ride a long way," she explained.
His own condoning the matter for the sake of his sensitive boy, deformed by his mother's unrestrained and violent hysteria before his birth, would go a long way.
We travelled with the Lord Advocate the other day, and he strongly advised me in my father's hearing to go to the English Bar; and the Lord Advocate's advice goes a long way in Scotland.
If you ask me why that makes it better, I would remind you that in the most distressing circumstances a little consequence goes a long way, and even bereaved relatives stand on precedence round the coffin.
He murmurs, growing warm and red and holding the slip of paper now close to his eyes, now a long way off, "C.
She was a pretty, very diminutive, plump woman of from forty to fifty, with handsome eyes, though they had a curious habit of seeming to look a long way off.
While I lived with him, I had it for asking; and fifty pounds would, I thought, go a long way.
But the time for his meeting John Barton drew on: and it was a long way to his house.
I asked where it was going: the driver named a place a long way off, and where I was sure Mr. Rochester had no connections.
It is a long way to Ireland, Janet, and I am sorry to send my little friend on such weary travels: but if I can't do better, how is it to be helped?
I went onward a long way, the weather was broiling hot, and I felt thirsty.
I seemed to be its only traveller—a wall extended for a long, long way on my left.
Pointing with my finger to the head of Snowdon towering a long way from us in the direction of the east, I said to Henrietta:— “Dacw Eryri, yonder is Snowdon.
I was just about to fall asleep, when I heard a ‘hem’ at the outward door of the posada, which was a long way below at the end of a passage which communicated with the court.
It is a long way off, that canon Doctor Morong had," said Ramona, piteously.
It is a long way to the place where we shall stay to-morrow.
It was a long way to the Silver Sphinx, which she knew, as every one in the underworld, and every one in New York who was addicted to slumming knew, was a combination dance-hall and restaurant in the Chatham Square district.
It was a long way uptown, but the chauffeur's initial and generous tip was bearing fruit.
It was a long way, and it would take a great while--by wide detours, by lanes and alleyways, for only on those streets that were relatively deserted and poorly lighted would she dare trust herself to the open.
Trendle's house was reached at last, however: he was not indoors, and instead of waiting at the cottage, she went to where his bent figure was pointed out to her at work a long way off.
Barnet ran on to that part of the shore which the cliff had hitherto obscured from his view, and there discerned, a long way ahead, a group of fishermen standing.
Barnet turned in his chair, and looked with unfocused eyes in a direction southward from where he sat, as if he saw not the room but a long way beyond.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "long way" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
