Longest

Examples

• The last hour was the longeSt. And yet, at last it passed. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• I would not change you for the clearest-headed, longest-sighted, best-judging female breathing. Jane Austen. Emma.
• Let me see; he'll be back in twenty minutes, at the longest,' said Mr. Brownlow, pulling out his watch, and placing it on the table. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• They appear as anchored in the new concrete docks at Colon, preparatory to their passage through the canal, after having made the longest sea voyage then on record for submarines. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Our longest separation was when her mother took her to Limmeridge. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• The form of the tubes is an oval, 17 feet in its longest diameter, and 12 feet in its shortest. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• That which soaks into the ground is the most valuable because it remains on the earth longest and is the purest. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• On May 10, 1908, ten ascensions in the government airship were made, the longest being over a mile and a half. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• The aristocracy held out the longest. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• When this is done, it is generally the effect of fraud, and not of inability; and the longest apprenticeship can give no security against fraud. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Shortly after Roger Sommer rose in the country outside Paris on a moonlight night, and flew for two hours, twenty-seven minutes, and fifteen seconds, the longest flight made to that time. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Those who have known her longest say that she has not changed, unless it be to grow more beautiful--were that possible. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• Cabin John (Washington Aqueduct) Bridge finished (longest masonry span in the world). Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• The Republic of Plato is the longest of his works with the exception of the Laws, and is certainly the greatest of them. Plato. The Republic.
• The business that I have really called about is this, to borrow the longest and strongest rope you have. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• It was not the longest that had been made. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Five of these slide on the longest segment of the rod and the remaining one on the shorter. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The people I have longest and most esteemed are degraded by her. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• The longest journey our Saviour ever performed was from here to Jerusalem--about one hundred to one hundred and twenty miles. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• The longest way must have its close,--the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• With the giraffe, the continued preservation of the individuals of some extinct high-reaching ruminant, which had the longest necks, legs, etc. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• In the longest flight it stayed in the air fifty-nine seconds, and flew against a twenty-mile wind. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• One of my longest trips away from home was the trip I took to Limmeridge to nurse a half-sister there, who was dying. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• And these were her longest speeches and clearest communications: the rest was only a languid Yes, yes; very well; did you? Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• Of the day that followed, I have only to say that it was the longest day of my life. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Sir Thomas, poor Sir Thomas, a parent, and conscious of errors in his own conduct as a parent, was the longest to suffer. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• I wore away the longest part of many wild sad nights, in those rides; reviving, as I went, the thoughts that had occupied me in my long absence. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• And let me have none of your tricks here, said Mr. Trabb, or you shall repent it, you young scoundrel, the longest day you have to live. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• There is a companionship of ready sympathy, which might get the advantage even over the longest associations. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Your tale is of the longest,' observed Monks, moving restlessly in his chair. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.

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