Lasting

Examples

• Bright the carriage looked, sleek the horses looked, gleaming the harness looked, luscious and lasting the liveries looked. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• These were charming feelingsbut not lasting. Jane Austen. Emma.
• From the delicate hair spring of a watch to the massive armor plate of a battleship, it finds endless applications, and is nature’s most enduring gift to man--abundant, cheap, and lasting. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• He hasn't made up his mind, I can see, whether or not he shall settle somewhere else as a lasting thing. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• And to this day the stone remains, an illegible monument of Mr. Pickwick's greatness, and a lasting trophy to the littleness of his enemies. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• When you leave Barton to form your own establishment in a more lasting home, Queen Mab shall receive you. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• The accumulated treasures of the prince have in former times afforded a much greater and more lasting resource. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• There might still remain in her mind a changed association with him which made an irremediable difference--a lasting flaw. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• And right there a lasting blow was given to the prestige of the Edison patents. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Yes, he said; and they are fair and lasting. Plato. The Republic.
• The wish was rather eager than lasting. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• Repression is the only lasting philosophy. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• The lasting value of Darwin, for example, is not in any concrete conclusion he reached. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• But she gave us her blessing, and the assurance of her lasting friendship, and spoke to us, generally, as became a Voice from the Cloister. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• It was--what lasting reason have I to remember it! Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• Hence it will be seen that, as in many other arts, he made a lasting impression in this one by the intrinsic merits of the improvements resulting from his work therein. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• I wonder he does not marry, to secure a lasting convenience of that kind. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• The richer pa grew the poorer was Frank; so at last pa wouldn't hear of our engagement lasting any longer, and he took me away to 'Frisco. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• These have always a stronger and more lasting influence than any pleasure or enjoyment. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• James has given us a lasting phrase when he speaks of the moral equivalent of evil. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• And his face turned from burning red to white, and from white back to burning red, and so for the time to lasting deadly white. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• But, as it is, the disappointment is single, and, I trust, will not be lasting. Jane Austen. Emma.
• It continues to yield a supply for ten or twenty years, this lasting until the flower stalk, or pole, appears, after which the plant soon dies. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• This yielded good practice nightly, lasting until 12 and 1 o'clock, and was maintained for some time until Mr. Edison became willing that his son should stay up for a reasonable time. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Yes, he said, that is the only kind of knowledge which takes lasting root. Plato. The Republic.
• Edison's mother was an attractive and highly educated woman, whose influence upon his disposition and intellect has been profound and lasting. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• His fervour, after lasting about a month, began to cool, and when it was quite cooled, began to grow warm again. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Love is real--the most real, the most lasting, the sweetest and yet the bitterest thing we know. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Lydgate was too hasty in attributing insensibility to her; after her own fashion, she was sensitive enough, and took lasting impressions. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• A second lasting machine of different kind, draws it around the toe and heel. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.

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