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    1. He had been lovers with that ghost in Tdsehi almost as long as he had with been with Tdeshi, before Jorma knew what she was of course


    2. "I wore those a long time after Kulai's office," he said, and to shadier places, he didn't say


    3. "Let me run up and see what's taking her so long


    4. "You were with Tahlmute a long time


    5. There is a local saying “If you can see Carn Brea it’s going to rain, if you can’t, it already is” a nd, if you stand still for long enough, you wil be guaranteed to turn mouldy


    6. ” They are offering shelter for the poor and hungry as long as you change your beliefs to fit their expectations


    7. It took a long time, it took a lot of energy, it took money, it took commitment, it took integrity, it took focus, it took a lot of things that are a challenge, but I embraced those challenges


    8. have to live this way because I real y don’t know how long I have to


    9. How long had he…?


    10. You will have to go a very, very long way to prove me wrong on

    11. · To realize that in the long run good and bad things are bound to cancel out each other


    12. He went for a long swim in the brisk water and found them still sound asleep when he got back


    13. He began to think it was a long time that Venna had been gone


    14. He wondered how long he could possibly spin this one out


    15. He had been merely a pawn in a very long standing game of emotional chess between the super sophisticated Tatania and David


    16. Dealing with long term problems was not envisaged


    17. " Ennil's head drew back a few inches, "Ava told me their dimensions, they are miles long


    18. ‘What? How long is it since you last did that?” Kira noted his hyper raised eyebrows behind the glasses with amusement


    19. She came here on a starship miles long made almost entirely of various metals, high in aluminum


    20. This had to be the longest relationship Sam had had for a long time

    21. Like I said it won’t be long


    22. After the obligatory studio photographs they had to individually sit for on the way in, presumably for record keeping purposes, they were frisked and taken to seats at long heavily loaded tables


    23. There was a long handwritten number on the back of it


    24. Avoid standing for long periods


    25. Elevating the legs at the end of a long day helps to prevent problems with the blood vessels in the legs, as does wearing support stockings


    26. and they continue to not live up to those expectations, how long are you going to put up with those inconsistencies in your life? How long are you going to put up with broken expectations from someone else in your life?


    27. friends if you have to, as long you find Jesus at the end


    28. Commitment is doing what you said you would do long after the mood you


    29. What’s the definition again? Doing what you said you would do long after the mood you said it in has disappeared


    30. long after the mood they said it in has been forgotten

    31. Doing what you said you would do long after the mood you said it in is simple if you follow what we are talking about here, but it’s not easy


    32. I’ve had a long life already


    33. Habits are usually formed by repeatedly doing something for a long period


    34. It is a low, long cry


    35. They hadn't been separated as long as this since she went to Himla's in the Tdeshi investigation two short years ago


    36. Conversely, something that seems like a short term benefit, may have long term implications


    37. long after the mood you said it in has disappeared


    38. Doctors recommend that with dentures we should chew food four times as long for proper mastication


    39. She had a light knit-wrap with her, but she hung that on the rail, leaving only her thin jersey covering her long and elegant body


    40. Psalms: 63:1: O God, thou art my God; early will I seek thee: my soul thirst for thee, my flesh long for thee in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is;

    41. "As long as it's not me


    42. contemplating about that love all day long


    43. •Out of Sight Mole Trap is a scissors jaw and spring type of trap that has been in use for a long time and kills em fast


    44. It was really nothing more than a long tie-dye tee shirt, and was accepted street and business attire for both sexes


    45. "Bom Dia!" she said, but remained in the native language after that because it had been so long now, fourteen decades, since she had used a word of any other language


    46. "I waited," he answered, "as long as I thought prudent, Kulai has more on my list than the housework


    47. But in the long term insects develop resistance to the super-tomatoes, leaving farmers scrambling to find ever newer strains of protective bacteria


    48. I bet my friend would have said maybe she made it for me a long time ago before I was born and I wanted a taste of it again in this lifetime


    49. How long can we ignore the chaos? It is for these reasons that natural non-chemical life-styles are very important in developing a sustainable life-style


    50. They take a very long view














































    1. Over the years it had always been like this; the news he longed for most of all and which carried with it the most fear


    2. Lucy longed to nuzzle into his


    3. How she longed to


    4. He longed for the chance to see that seed sprout


    5. After all these weeks alone I longed for company


    6. Was the voice a product of my unhinged imagination? Would I be able to stand it if all I could see were bare walls and empty space? At the same time I felt like a small child again, receiving that one huge present so longed for


    7. “I have longed for you to take


    8. Lucy longed to nuzzle into his fur, to bury her face in the texture of death


    9. How she longed to look into those eyes just once before the fang and the crack of her neck


    10. There was once a lonely girl who longed

    11. be nice if Vidya was here? Isn't this what she longed for most? Freedom above all


    12. He fell deeply in love with her and longed for the


    13. “I’ve longed to feel this way


    14. wearily muttered the words he had longed never to say again


    15. She returned to her seat and longed to be on the ground where she could use her cell phone and try to contact Evaristo again


    16. She looked like she longed to tell him something


    17. Though he longed to find her to say good-bye, he told himself, “I must not waste a moment


    18. She longed for so much more but this would have to do


    19. When rocking around the Christmas tree started to play, she lifted her head and longed to dance, but by then Mike would’ve been doing good to stand


    20. I could clearly see the things I longed for

    21. He longed to lose himself within them, to drift from one horror to the next in the hopes that he felt something


    22. I would have the love I longed for


    23. One day the woman was standing by this window and looking down into the garden, when she saw a bed which was planted with the most beautiful rapunzel flowers, and it looked so fresh and green that she longed for it


    24. He longed to have her as his own, longed to bite down upon those red lips, softly at first, then


    25. Rabbit: "Don't you have any difficulty in the water? Doesn't it get into your eyes and mouth?" For he really longed in his heart to see the strange sights


    26. Though he still longed to drive it into the mage's throat, he knew that the steel would sooner bend than it would pierce his aura of blue


    27. Midlan, nephew of Rollinthor, had longed to return home, to once more cast his eyes upon his bride-to-be


    28. Though she longed to near him, the hate in his eyes kept her at bay


    29. Anon longed to prove him wrong


    30. Nerissa longed to wrap the boy’s thin body in her arms

    31. where one longed for breath and the shattering of the sickening


    32. Though Nerissa longed to rejoin her family, she


    33. years, and I longed to be on the coast


    34. She longed to ask about Theoton, but thoughts of his betrayal were still too raw


    35. It longed, as she did, to be free


    36. She longed to flee before he finished


    37. satisfied that absence in his mind? Had she become both father and mother to him? The father he longed to punish and the mother he longed to love?


    38. And yet… she longed to see her reflection in a glass


    39. And though she longed to see Homer, to hear the progress on his poem, to recite her own work for him, she couldn’t go there, either


    40. She longed to

    41. Tragus longed for a woman


    42. She longed to see the boy


    43. She longed to have him make love to her again


    44. Longed for it, even


    45. Nerissa longed to ask how the epic had progressed


    46. At last, she could see the apartment building that she so longed to get to


    47. She longed to ask about his poem


    48. When he finally came close enough to let his gun touch his head, he uttered words that he had longed to say: "Hello, brother


    49. what I longed for in the Cave of Loizos


    50. “Afterwards your aunt, Azubah, told me that the man I tried to save had a daughter and a son in Babylon whom he desperately longed to see











































    1. is a phrase he uses to express how much he was longing,


    2. He embroidered full lips of ruby red, eyes of a deep, longing brown, toes that were


    3. save for that one weird sense of longing that seemed to flow from his soul


    4. She felt the tingle, felt the longing in her


    5. It was an imperative, an unquenchable thirst, almost a universal longing for an end to this particular night


    6. She could sense no personality save for that one weird sense of longing that seemed to flow from his soul


    7. longing for childhood or the musing on times


    8. For the first time he could see the longing, and the frustration reflected in her eyes


    9. ” Smiling she looked at these women and saw the longing in their eyes


    10. ’ I hear the longing in his voice and my stomach starts turning somersaults

    11. They took pride in their home and without the expense of youngsters nipping at their heels they were able to fill their lives with activities designed to displace their mutual sense of loss and longing


    12. The old man knew he was stepping out of bounds, but still he persisted; he had seen the look of longing on Tarak’s face when he was with her


    13. mutual sense of loss and longing


    14. 9For he satisfies the longing soul, and fills the hungry soul with goodness


    15. The sun glinted beautifully on the feathers of its wings and Chrissie felt a longing to be able to touch the little creature … to stroke the feathers


    16. His partner looks at the bottle of whiskey on the table with a mixture of longing and approbation


    17. “It’s fear and longing


    18. She, for herself, was only just recently made aware of the hints of expression and gesture which revealed to the careful eye, the heart's own true longing


    19. I Love you and longing forward to be with you and hope pretty soon


    20. "Thru this past year I've felt my longing to be in this home strengthen

    21. Like Solo Ki, he wasn't interested in victory so much as he was simply longing for the fighting to end


    22. Alec was suddenly longing for the days when the One Elf remained silent


    23. In just this instant she realized that the hurt and longing she felt for Rendrak might have had a lot to do with why she was never able to find another love in Yoonbarla


    24. It disturbed Nerissa, who knew a thing or two about the longing children feel for a mother’s love


    25. I could hear her longing, her profound need to be saved


    26. longing, the missing, but more in the waiting


    27. Their resistance crumbled and their kiss became a fire that ignited some deep desires within them, a longing that lurked beneath the surface


    28. The idea of Christmas was beautiful, and the pain and longing inside me brought more tears


    29. fear, sadness, longing for what we had had and a tremendous amount of love


    30. Does it stop? Did the longing ever fucking stop? He supposed he had the rest of eternity to figure it out

    31. For the next few months Raven did everything he could to ease Seraphia’s longing for Japan


    32. Sometimes he thought he could see that longing in their eyes


    33. Then there were the tortures of prickly heat to contend with, and a longing for a draught of water a few degrees below 90


    34. A brutal but natural longing for revenge for past wrongs, rather than a re-echo from Seneca:


    35. Home after home he passed, looking with longing eyes through the


    36. Days became weeks, the months swallowed the weeks, and the longing mixed with pain for Boyd became anger, and that Mr and Mrs Langford had shut me out of their lives too made the anger bitter


    37. “God, Jevan, it is so much more than a longing, it is a craving, a cascading desire that saturates every corner of my being -”


    38. The feel of the sand between my toes as I made my way to the ocean with my board under my arm brought back a wave of emotions, memories and a longing I had forgotten


    39. Crowley was shaking in ecstasy, he had uncovered what he was longing for


    40. I understood her pain and her longing as I felt it too

    41. And what is this I hear among the churches of men and those devout in Israel, even among those who have recognized Mashiach in Israel? What voice do I hear lifted up to heaven, crying out for guidance, longing for My presence and The Word of The Lord? What sound from the people has entered into the ears of The Holy One?!


    42. I could hear the longing in his voice just as much as he could hear it in mine


    43. Since I was longing for him - he needed to step-up and deal with my need


    44. The new situation, however, did not ease the longing and yearning for the life I once had or for my family


    45. The only sense of belonging felt by some of the sinners was the longing for their mothers afterwards as we made sure that they understood their wickedness in making their fellow innocent cadets suffer on Sunday afternoons since God had ordained the seventh day as a day of rest, a command which had now been broken with their communist tendencies of sleeping in church


    46. " Looking with longing at the empty space where the toilet had stood until a short while ago, I wondered just how long I would be able to hold on


    47. It is only logical that as time goes by you will be longing for news


    48. At the end of the meal, I fled to the ladies’ room with equal parts relief and longing


    49. “Where you left off was making longing faces at each other over your textbooks and lunch trays


    50. Laying on the warm soil, the moth looked up at the sun with such a longing that it thought it might die














































    1. watched by a mother who longs for the numbers called,


    2. and the disappointment of age that longs


    3. when he longs for his woodland girl,


    4. Once or twice Alastair has told me how much he longs just to be with me, to wake up with me but, in all the years we had been ‘together’, we have only managed it once


    5. 21 Who longs for death, but it comes not; and digs for it more than for hidden treasures;


    6. 1 O God, you are my God; early will I seek you: my soul thirsts for you, my flesh longs for you in a dry and thirsty land, where no


    7. He longs to be near to your heart


    8. 20 When the Lord your God shall enlarge your border, as he has promised you, and you shall say, I will eat flesh, because your soul longs to eat flesh; you may eat flesh, whatever your soul lusts after


    9. But there is this part of me that longs for idle chitchat about


    10. He longs to touch their glistening pages, but there is no time

    11. Heart beating fast and his throat filled with all the words he longs to tell her, he leaps over the wolf and flings aside the heavy red velvet she made for his privacy


    12. With all his being, he longs for the warmth of the castle hall, somewhere to sit


    13. Oh how He longs so much to hold them in His arms!


    14. Jesus longs to have them in His arms again as it used to be


    15. Such thoughts are not fitting, although for a moment he longs for nothing more than to take Simon to his bed, such as it is, and show him how little the concept of rest is on his mind


    16. He longs for the city, no matter how ravaged; he has no liking for this land of grass and rivers


    17. What more can be learned? How she longs to see Hartstongue’s lifeless body at her feet


    18. It is a mystery to the scribe that anything so apparently heavy and oddly-shaped can float, and Johan understands how much and how powerfully Simon longs for parchment to write down his reactions, but he has none


    19. Jesus said ONE thing is needed, and that is to be with Him! So if our schedule does not reflect a lifestyle that seeks God above all, then our spiritual needs are not being met, and we aren’t living the full life that Jesus longs for us to live


    20. Suddenly a horn sounded three longs blasts

    21. For the mind longs to spring up to positions of


    22. What she longs for


    23. He then flipped his mattress over, revealing a full line of arsenals that ranged in size and caliper: 45s, 22 longs, automatics, revolvers, and those were just the ones she knew by sight


    24. Longs smiles and kisses before opening the door


    25. I only realize I’m holding my breath when my longs are screaming for air


    26. million years before but yet longs to see


    27. million years before yet longs to see a


    28. Joey studied them as best as he could; bright brown, featherless skin, wide head on longs necks and a mouth with the yellow beak made into primitive teeth around it


    29. They neared some lankers and sent them flying in an orchestra of squawking, and some hairless, blue-skinned monkeys with longs snouts and clawed tails howled chaotically and swung out of the way


    30. That question was gladly answered by parts of the green bushes breaking off and running at them, exposing themselves to large quadrupeds with longs snouts and green and yellow stripes on their bodies

    31. He longs for a jelly roll, éclair or a cannoli


    32. She immediately tensed up on her chair and screamed for longs seconds, until the man withdrew the wires


    33. That is why He longs to bring restoration in relationships


    34. " He flashed his handbeam, two longs and one short


    35. “O God, you are my God; early I will seek You; my soul thirsts for You; my flesh longs for You in a dry and thirsty land where there is no water


    36. displayed therein, that matters most in the long run? One heart longs to


    37. We're created to do that, and everyone longs to be honoured and valued


    38. I have a very old—call it primitive—soul that longs for the air of the preliterate world, an air saturated with honor and desire and poetry


    39. For my heart, she longs for countless stars


    40. “How long"s this place been here?”

    41. longs to one who realizes its essence, and the war fought on it is the only real war


    42. When he hears something about him (cpth), his heart longs for him; and if his name or his merits or deeds are mentioned, his spirit travels overstepping the large distances and leaving behind all ages and generations in no time to where it becomes accompanying that venerable spirit and sticking to that firm tie with no break nor split


    43. "It is you oh my god Amy how longs it been now" She asked I just sat there silent


    44. longs for higher things


    45. Then comes our friend of the red tie, and in the cool of the day when the world is dim and scented shakes a little fugue of Bach's out of his fiddle, a sparkling, sly little fugue, frolicsome for all its minor key, a handful of bright threads woven together, twisted in and out, playing, it would seem, at some game of hide-and-seek, of pretending to want to catch each other into a tangle, but always gaily coming out of the knots, each distinct and holding on its shining way till the meeting at the end, the final embrace when the game is over and they tie themselves contentedly together into one comfortable major chord,--our friend plays this, this manifestly happy thing, and my soul listens, and smiles, and sighs, and longs, and ends by being steeped in _Wehmuth_


    46. He absolutely hates it, and he pushes himself between her long, gorgeous legs in an attempt to make things better, but it only makes it worse because - maybe he's imagining it - but he can feel the heat of her pressed against him, and he just longs for her so badly


    47. Their captain is dead, their crew drunk, their controls off-kilter and their courses set and determined—they are full of people and in each of those people is a soul that longs for safety


    48. have more sense to turn away from the Ah Longs and gave their own


    49. that which He so longs to do


    50. There is no human being on earth with the power to grant us what our heart of hearts longs for: the end of that empty feeling that as we are, we are simply not enough









































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    Synonyms for "long"

    hanker long yearn farseeing farsighted foresighted foresightful longsighted prospicient recollective retentive tenacious boring tedious long-winded verbose wordy prolix dragging lengthy extensive prolonged drawn out extended attenuated crave desire hunger ache yearn for

    "long" definitions

    desire strongly or persistently


    primarily temporal sense; being or indicating a relatively great or greater than average duration or passage of time or a duration as specified


    primarily spatial sense; of relatively great or greater than average spatial extension or extension as specified


    of relatively great height


    good at remembering


    holding securities or commodities in expectation of a rise in prices


    (of speech sounds or syllables) of relatively long duration


    involving substantial risk


    planning prudently for the future


    having or being more than normal or necessary


    for an extended time or at a distant time


    for an extended distance