Citations:long
English citations of long
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- 1678 — John Bunyan. The Pilgrim's Progress.
- In this plight, therefore, he went home and refrained himself as long as he could, that his wife and children should not perceive his distress; but he could not be silent long, because that his trouble increased.
- They told him, That custom, it being of so long a standing as above a thousand years, would, doubtless, now be admitted as a thing legal by any impartial judge; and besides, said they, if we get into the way, what's matter which way we get in? if we are in, we are in; thou art but in the way, who, as we perceive, came in at the gate; and we are also in the way, that came tumbling over the wall; wherein, now, is thy condition better than ours?
- "Difficulty is behind, Fear is before, Though he's got on the hill, the lions roar; A Christian man is never long at ease, When one fright's gone, another doth him seize."
- 1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.
- The office was closed in a twinkling, and the clerk, with the long ends of his white comforter dangling below his waist (for he boasted no great-coat), went down a slide on Cornhill, at the end of a lane of boys, twenty times, in honour of its being Christmas Eve, and then ran home to Camden Town as hard as he could pelt, to play at blindman's-buff.
- The fireplace was an old one, built by some Dutch merchant long ago, and paved all round with quaint Dutch tiles, designed to illustrate the Scriptures.
- It was long, and wound about him like a tail; and it was made (for Scrooge observed it closely) of cash-boxes, keys, padlocks, ledgers, deeds, and heavy purses wrought in steel.
Adverb
edit- (nonstandard) For a lengthy duration.
- 1942, Don C. Talayesva, Sun Chief: The Autobiography of a Hopi Indian, New Haven: Yale University Press, published 2013, →ISBN, page 33:
- He looked long at the picture of his uncle, Talasquaptewa, who had the part of the Star Priest, but made no comment.
- 1980, Alain LeRoy Locke, Harlem, Mecca of the New Negro[1], page 663:
- Poems by Langston Hughes An Earth Song: It's an earth song - and I've been waiting long for an earth song. It's a Spring song - and I've been waiting long for a Spring song. […] I have been waiting long for this Spring song.
- 2019 January 31, “I've Been Waiting” (track 10), in NOW That's What I Call Music! 70 [US][2], performed by Lil Peep,iLoveMakonnen:
- [Verse 4:iLoveMakonnen and Lil Peep]: And now the time is right, you wanna do me so wrong when I've been waitin' (I've been waitin) long for you (long for you).
- 2019 June 13, “I Fell in Love With You One Night in June”[3]performed by 1nonly:
- I've been feeling wrong you been feelin' right, I've been waiting long, I've been waiting all night.
- 2021 August 19, “Drake”[4]performed by Most Certi:
- [Verse 1]: […] Be there in five, man’s taking long. Are you still there? No fam, I’m already gone.