Protracted

Examples

• His skin, nearly black, his matted hair and bristly beard, were signs of a long protracted misery. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• She grew paler and paler as the process of tea-making was protracted. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• It's only the first labor, which is almost always protracted. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• But I also know,' pursued the old gentleman, 'the misery, the slow torture, the protracted anguish of that ill-assorted union. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• THESE events occupied so much time, that June had numbered more than half its days, before we again commenced our long-protracted journey. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• But I feel mine is not the existence to be long protracted under an Indian sun. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• De Long, who had an earnest and protracted conversation with Edison over the Arctic expedition he was undertaking with the aid of Mr. James Gordon Bennett, of the New York Herald. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• It is true that the debates of both Houses of Parliament the whole session through, uniformly tended to the protracted deliberation, How not to do it. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• The initial labor is usually protracted. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• Archer paused again, and their eyes met in another protracted scrutiny. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• In doing this he enjoys all the pleasures of intellectual labor, and all the desire arising from protracted hope. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• It was late, for I had been playing in the last piece; and, as it was a benefit night, the performances had been protracted to an unusual length. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• Mr. St. John came but once: he looked at me, and said my state of lethargy was the result of reaction from excessive and protracted fatigue. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• It is made up as a result of protracted experiments and much scientific research, both by state institutions and by private individuals. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The first labor is usually protracted, the nurse said. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• For these things I would have crawled on with her for twenty years, if for twenty years longer her life of endurance had been protracted. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• It could be protracted no longer. Jane Austen. Emma.
• The young men now out of homes and out of employment might have rallied under his standard and protracted the war yet another year. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Gibraltar has stood several protracted sieges, one of them of nearly four years' duration (it failed), and the English only captured it by stratagem. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• The debates had hitherto been long and loud; they had often been protracted merely for the sake of delay. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• This was Mr. Cruncher's conclusion after a protracted but vain endeavour to find a better one. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• Thus, in 1893, the litigation was reopened, and a protracted series of stubbornly contested conflicts was fought in the courts. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.

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