Lengthening

例句:

• Other company were there: two playing cards, two playing dominoes, three standing by the counter lengthening out a short supply of wine. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• But the course of civilization has been marked by an artificial lengthening of the day, and by a constant striving after more perfect means of illumination. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• It is useful for the making of chains, tools, carriage axles, joining shafting, wires, and pipes, mending bands, tires, hoops, and lengthening and shortening bolts, bars, etc. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• As spring came on, a new set of amusements became the fashion, and the lengthening days gave long afternoons for work and play of all sorts. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• Thus he lay through the diminishing days and lengthening nights of the whole drear month of November. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• It came back by fits, but those grew fainter and returned at lengthening intervals. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• I'll put a stuffed partridge on the top of a post, and practise at it, beginning at a short distance, and lengthening it by degrees. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• Old plants are lengthening their kilns wherever practicable, and no wide-awake manufacturer building a modern plant could afford to install other than these long kilns. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.

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