Lengthening

Examples

• Other company were there: two playing cards, two playing dominoes, three standing by the counter lengthening out a short supply of wine. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• 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. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• 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. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• 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. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• Thus he lay through the diminishing days and lengthening nights of the whole drear month of November. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• It came back by fits, but those grew fainter and returned at lengthening intervals. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• 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. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• 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. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.

Editor: Tess