I, poor devil as I am, would fain be serious to-day--for the first time this many a long year.
Doubtless the key was lost; the grass growing beside the lower boards, against which slight mounds had formed, amply proved that no one had passed that way for many a long year.
So it was at a run that he dived into the Impasse Saint-Mittre, and reached his mother's house, which he had not visited for many a long year.
In vain had he robbed his mother, steeped his hands in the foulest intrigues, and lied and lied for many a long year.
It has been a frightful dream to me for many a long year.
Many a long year afterward it all came out in some way.
Now that was the last I saw of Denmark for many a long year, and I knew it must be so.
Now, I will say that not for many a long year did I know who this foster-brother of mine was.
There was no fear of battle here, and indeed with Gunnar and Sigurd to guard the land we had had peace for many a long year on our own coasts, if other lands had had to fear them.
Fierce gales succeeded the tempest; and when the wind once more sank to rest we found ourselves surrounded by a group of islands that, although I have sailed the South Pacific for many a long year, I had never seen before.
For many a long year, then, James and I had sailed the salt seas together.
For many and many a long year we sailed the seas together, and weathered many a gale and storm.
But a day's intimacy made them bosom friends; and the Manor Green soon saw such revels as it had not seen for many a long year.
Many a long year hath it taken to build up all the fortune you behold, for already the hair about his temples is touched with snow.
About its mouth the brambles grew tall and thick, and the ivy hung down in long festoons, for none had ventured in for many a long year.
I trust that some on board that ship felt also that a merciful Providence had preserved us from a galling and painful lot, which would have endured for many a long year, to do our duty to Heaven and our country.
My heart sunk within me, and I burst into a fit of tears, the first I had shed for many a long year.
I never saw a poor fellow so cut up and broken-hearted when he saw all his hopes blown to the winds, and knew that, for many a long year, he might not see his wife or little ones.
The leaves were falling silently from the branches overhead, adding one by one their tribute to the thick bronze carpet which had been lying at the feet of the stately trees for many a long year.
Rector had called down upon her seemed to fill Mary Gifford's heart; and that quiet hour of the Sunday noontide remained in her memory in the coming days, as the last she was to know for many a long year.
For many a long year Mr Watson carried everything before him.
Fifty years ago, and for many a long year thereafter, there were no shorthorns in the north.
The late Sir Thomas Burnett was a most successful breeder, and stood in the front rank for many a long year.
Then I came down and ran for the village; and here I am, alive to serve your Majesty for many a long year, I trust.
Thus befell the first and only quarrel between the bear-hunter and his much-loved master, and the pair were destined, in consequence of it, to be parted for many a long year.
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