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Example sentences for "remain long"

  • Come, my sultan, it is not good to remain long in this place.

  • The army got plenty to eat here, but we were not suffered to remain long.

  • All the troops landed, and tents were pitched, and the men were allowed several days to rest and recruit up; but we were not destined to remain long idle.

  • Returned to the 11th Missouri again, but were not destined to remain long inactive.

  • But somehow or other, I never had the luck to remain long in one ship, and that by no fault of mine; at least, not in this instance.

  • Fortunately we were not destined to remain long in this detestable hole.

  • But somehow or other, I never had the luck to remain long in one ship, and that by no fault of mine; at least not in this instance.

  • We were not allowed to remain long in this paradise of sailors, being ordered suddenly to Quebec.

  • I arrived; my father did not know me, nor did I wish that he should, as I did not intend to remain long in the company.

  • But it was impossible for the kingdom to remain long in this doubtful situation: the people, as well as the parliament, pushed matters to a decision.

  • The laws, as they stood at present, protected the church but they exposed the Catholics to the utmost rage of the Puritans; and these unhappy religionists, so obnoxious to the prevailing sect, could not hope to remain long unmolested.

  • The king could not hope to remain long concealed at Tichfield: what measure should next be embraced, was the question.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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