Longer

Examples

• Her lover was no longer to her an exciting man whom many women strove for, and herself could only retain by striving with them. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• Your stepson, if Mr. Rigg Featherstone was he, is here no longer. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• I shall no longer see the sun or stars, or feel the winds play on my cheeks. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• The penniless Colonel became quite obsequious and respectful to the head of his house, and despised the milksop Pitt no longer. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Why can you no longer be a clergyman? Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• My application was of longer endurance; but it was not so severe whilst it endured. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• But since we no longer have the Church I do not think it carries importance. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• At last he could keep these feelings to himself no longer. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• On succeeding days longer flights were made, one of two miles at a speed of forty-six miles an hour. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• A little longer, so that I may tell you decisively. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• I believe you were glad we danced no longer; but I would have given worldsall the worlds one ever has to givefor another half-hour. Jane Austen. Emma.
• I can't stand it any longer. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Then I do not think that I need to detain you longer. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• Let it deceive them, then, a little longer; it cannot deceive them too much. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• But it was no longer all-powerful, because its nature made it conservative and inadaptable. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.

Editor: Upton