Then did the Harvard hosts burst into one mighty andprolonged cheer that made the air tremble.
After a sojourn of eight days in Brussels, the master and his wife went south to Cologne, spending four long days on the road; and soon afterwards prolonged their journey to Nuremberg.
A noble man is snatched away, whilst so many others, worthless and incapable men, enjoy unclouded happiness, and have their years prolonged beyond the ordinary term of man's life.
He was delayed by a prolonged attack of fever in the summer, and by the closing works on the Elector's picture.
On the Zambesi the women wade in the clear shallow water with a funnel-shaped basket, the smaller end of which is prolonged by a pole or handle.
The contest is often prolonged by picking up the assegais thrown by the other party, and sending them back again.
It was half-past twelve when, after gazing withprolonged intensity at the patient, and after having tested her mouth and heart, he rose slowly and looked at Constance.
It was as though her bosom had suffered from a prolonged drought at a susceptible period of development, and had never recovered.
After a prolonged residence at Southport, he had died, at the age of eighty-two, leaving his property behind.
It was not an hour for a prolonged visit, and in a few minutes Mr. Scales was ready again to depart.
Prolonged residence in Paris would not justify this ignorance; it seemed rather to intensify its strangeness.
She would not give them up, even when the surgeon pronounced their cases hopeless, and though she could not always save them from death, she undoubtedly prolonged life in many instances by her assiduous nursing.
Apparently satisfied from his prolonged inspection of the two visitors that they were not in search of lodgings, he replied in a surly tone: "What the hell's that to do with you?
Then, realizing that her prolonged absence was likely to be remarked upon, she went across on the day of the murder to see her mother.
Then another fit of coughing seized him, prolonged and violent.
All she could urge, however, had but very partial success, though the conversation was prolonged far into the evening.
But happily breakfasts must come to an end, and so did this, prolonged though it was.
The thickets have taken on full leaf before the bird arrives from the South, along about the 10th of May, and the northward march is often prolonged till the first of June.
But now, her aggressive, menacing, uncommunicative glumness was prolongedfor days and days.
The struggles of the owners and the colonists are the more prolonged because the sowing of the maize can be put back to the end of the spring without much harm being done.
The formation of it implies a prolongedstability of the surface on which it has accumulated.
A Record of the Observations, Adventures & Experiences of a Pioneer Missionary during a prolonged sojourn amongst the wild & unknown Nosu tribe of Western China.
In this way, never saying enough to satisfy her, I always said enough to mislead her, a species of double-dealing the very success of which was against my wishes and prolonged my misery.
The maneuver, not completed until an hour later, left their line bowed in at the center, with a number of ships slightly to leeward, while Gravina's squadron mingled with and prolonged the rear in the new order.
Both fleets were so badly shot up by this prolonged battle that there was a lull in operations until May.
With more strict concentration upon commerce destruction, and further preparations for using German liners as auxiliaries, the campaign might have been prolonged and made somewhat more effective.
Then the mule lifted high his head and uttered a prolonged ear-splitting bray of defiance.
If that stock is a mixed one, variations are much more likely to occur than if it is a pure race or a people that have become homogeneous by prolonged isolation.
James Chalmers to be very prolonged and important.
After one prolonged expiration Dick asked sharply what he was grunting about.
Sam, waiting above, heard a whistle, curiously prolonged by its reverberations from the walls.
Mrs. Jones was one of the women who have no inclination for prolonged meals, and it was always a trial to her the deliberation and great enjoyment evinced by her husband on these occasions.
She bore the prolonged meals, in which her rapid demolition was a standing grievance, with some work on her lap, work which employed her active fingers and left her mind free to apply to any of her husband's interests at the moment.
He had generally, however, fits of silence when she was only conscious of his eyes gleaming at her from under the shaggy eyebrows, and these prolonged periods of silence were far, far more acceptable to her than his terrible laugh.
Carol was very good at meeting investigation, but when it came to prolonged explanation, Lark stood preeminent.
She did not hear the prolongedringing of the front-door bell.
In presence of the serenity of this face on which the death pangs had no longer left any trace, no one would have believed in the prolongedsufferings that had served as a preface to death.
As he was showing his friend out Rodolphe heard on the staircase a prolonged mew, to which his carroty cat replied by another, whilst trying at the same time to slip out adroitly by the half-opened door.
The next day at five in the morning the pigeon was exact to time, and filled the room with a prolonged cooing that would have awakened the two lovers--if they had gone to sleep.
He had been there nearly two hours, when his wife, alarmed at his prolonged absence, sent the maid after him.
This number, it was argued, would make a reasonably efficient fighting force in case of attack--although they realized that they would be able to resist for only a brief time, since they were in no condition for a prolonged defense.
In a few years, however, through a prolonged series of intertribal quarrels conditions had become such that Inkpaduta was recognized as the undisputed master of the greater and more turbulent sections of both of the original bands.
Indeed, the season was so prolongedthat it is said spring came only in late April, while May and June were cold.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "prolonged" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
