Such diligence as the most part of our lucrative lawyers do use, in deferring and prolonging of matters and actions from term to term.
Defn: The keeping back of an approaching consonant chord by prolonging one or more tones of a previous chord into the intermediate chord which follows; -- differing from suspension by resolving upwards instead of downwards.
Thou art but an agent of God in this wondrous thing, and being so, it is my holy duty to help thee yet again, in prolonging thy days, so that they shall equal hers.
I have heard that Holy Echri hath the power of prolonging life, of endowing mortal man with forces that rejuvenate.
Americans have a very strong feeling that they could not be guilty of the Irish mess, or of prolonging the confusion which threatens to bring Europe's civilisation to utter collapse.
Prolonging the incision downward to the apex and upward through the pulmonary artery, the cavity of the ventricle will be fully exposed.
Prolonging our incision already made through the cortex of the organ, inward toward the pelvis, we divide the organ into two halves and now closely examine the internal structure.
Baynes has a "fad," to which he attributes a chief part in prolonging his life.
Three or four times a day he took a powder made of herbs to which he naturally attributed his power of prolonging life without food.
Thus, when I say that certain events occurred in past time, I merely assert the possibility of prolonging the chain of experience, from the present perception, upwards to the conditions that determine it according to time.
But as regards time future, which is not the condition of arriving at the present, in order to conceive it; it is quite indifferent whether we consider future time as ceasing at some point, or as prolongingitself to infinity.
The long dash representing "naught" is similarly made by prolonging the signal to the left for a period of time equal to two dots.
The space which occurs only between dots is made by prolonging the signal for the last dot for an interval of time equal to the time of an additional dot, the staff of the flag, the beam of the searchlight, etc.
In order to put a stop to Rossel's effusions an officer was obliged to tell him that he was prolonging the torture of the two others.
As to those engaged in the insurrection, we tell them that they ought to have shuddered at the thought of aggravating, of prolonging the scourge of the foreign occupation by adding thereto the scourge of civil discords.
Monomotapa, a Caffre king, his way ofprolonging his life, ii.
M193 Other sacrifices for prolonging the king's life appear to be magical rather than religious.
In the following instances the practices for prolonging the king's life seem to be purely magical.
M196) When a king of Uganda had reigned some time, apparently several years, a ceremony was performed for the sake of prolonging his life.
It is then burned, and the strength of the bull is supposed to enter into the king, thereby prolonging his life.
In antiquity the flesh of deer and crows was eaten for other purposes than that of prolonging life.
In Corea effigies are employed on much the same principle for the purpose of prolonging life.
Endius insisted in his speech on the mutual mischief which each was doing to the other by prolonging the war; but he contended that Athens was by far the greater sufferer of the two, and had the deepest interest in accelerating peace.
I do not hold a retaining fee on one side or the other, and so I perceive how unmoral this ardour for prolonging this existence really is.
It was the crash between two crowds which led to the prolonging of the yell.
Yet could she conceive life such as this prolonging itself into the hopeless years, renunciation her strength and her reward, duty a grinning skeleton at her bedside?
When Major-General Colvile saw that the Boers had thus arrested the march of the Scots Guards, he determined to employ his reserve, the 1st Coldstream, in prolonging the line of the brigade to the right so as to extend beyond the enemy's left.
But the Boers, after a short retirement, received further strong reinforcements from Norval's Pont, and prolonging the threatened left, showed a bold front.
He had remonstrated with Pompey on the imprudence of prolonging Caesar's command.
Why did time limp so tediously away with him, prolonging his anguish gratuitously?
It is impossible for us, who now look back on these times, to perceive what possible object could have been gained by England in prolonging the war.
What better terms, then, could have been obtained by prolonging the war?
It is frequently difficult to prevent the patient from over-distending the stomach, and thus impairing the tone of the muscular coats and prolonging the process of digestion.
We are careful, therefore, not to assume the treatment of incurable cases, except when desired to do so for the purpose of mitigating suffering or prolonging life; for we never wish to encourage false hopes of recovery.
By carefully pursuing the new method, and not prolonging the sittings more than a few minutes each time, the entire stone was evacuated.
So great was the earl’s ardour to put an end to calamity, that he preferred risking extremities to prolonging the sufferings of the country.
Every manoeuvre that can be used to prolong life, by prolonging even the daily existence of the Assembly, is unscrupulously put into practice.
A shout of hellish delight greeted this suggestion of their leader, and the Indians scattered into the forest to collect brushwood and dead timber, for an Indian delights in prolonging the torture of his prisoner.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "prolonging" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
