She needed someone to listen, not to talk, and Mary had been trained by long years of self-abnegation to fill that post.
Long years of dining out had made him an expert at the game of starting his partner on a hobby during an interval between courses, and then giving her her head until the next stop.
How can I wait so long--for long, long years perhaps?
Long years after, when he was an old man with a long white beard, he used to walk up and down in Meeting in a long velvet gown, still repeating the story of his friend's sufferings and of his patience.
She was learning to be happy, this beautiful girl over whose unconscious head hung the shadow of long years of sorrow.
I had read wonderful stories of long years of toilsome labor,--whole lives passed in an arduous struggle, till death had at last relieved them from a contest with the "impossible.
You have yet, in all likelihood, long years of life before you.
At that moment it seemed as if the dim, gilded room were full of tears and sorrows; the faint, sweet fragrance of the girl who had lived there long years ago, suffering and enduring for the sake of her boy.
His father had been dead these long years, murdered by the man her son now called by that name.
The youthful Sultan who, long years ago, had sworn to kill her father and sell her as a slave!
The fate of both sisters had been the same--a short dream of gratified ambition, followed by long years of humiliation.
Speak but the word--say that you are that which, by the laws of God and man, you have been for these five long years, and I open your doors and restore you to freedom.
Besides, these bodily frames, even when worn and disfigured by long years of service, hang about our consciousness like old garments.
It was the sacrament that washed out the memory of long years of bitterness, and I should hold it an unworthy thought to defend her.
He had read many a page of "Thoughts on the Universe" to his own old mother, long, long years ago, and she had often listened with tears of modest pride that Heaven had favored her with a son so full of genius.
A bitter east wind, bringing always more snow, had blown almost ceaselessly for the best part of a fortnight before any change came in the wildest weather that had befallen Loquhariot in long years.
I left the last half of my name behind me when I fled the country, long years ago, at the time of Lord St. Just's death.
And it's to the man you set ashore here, alone, long years ago, to die in the desert like a mad dog, that you come demanding a hand to get you out of a bit of a bog!
But ill health, anxiety, long years of hardship and incessant labour, had combined to make him prematurely old.
Long years ago, when dumb I stood Beside that little grass-green mound-- Would I had lain beneath the mound!
Long years he had bowed beneath its whip, the veriest slave of the insidious drug.
That is why I am here, today, outcast and execrated, a prisoner, in danger of long years of living death in the pestilential tomb of some foul penitentiary!
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