lengthful
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lengthful (comparative more lengthful, superlative most lengthful)
- (obsolete) long
- 1721, Homer (translated by Alexander Pope), The Iliad of Homer:
- He said ; the driver whirls his lengthful thong; The horses fly!
- 1793, François de Salignac de La Mothe- Fénelon, The Adventures of Telemachus, the Son of Ulysses:
- His lengthful bristles were hard and stood upright like darts; his glaring eyes were red and fiery;
- 1883, Canada. Parliament, Sessional Papers of the Dominion of Canada:
- The reading of good books cannot fail to have a beneficial effect upon the mind of the convicts; and it is also an efficient means for keeping them orderly and quiet during their lengthful hours of close seclusion.