During such efforts there will be a craving in the mind, and as long as it is unsatisfied the Speaker will cling to the same words, or words of the same character.

In this plight, therefore, he went home, and restrained 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.

And that is also the probable reason why he lets the deer alone as long as he can find any other game.

[Illustration: "'TIS ENOUGH,' CRIED OUT PARSON JONES, 'TO MAKE US BOTH RICH MEN'"] "'Tis enough," cried out Parson Jones, "to make us both rich men as long as we live.

"Well, if she drove straight back from Cranbrook she would be here now,but I fancy she won't be so very anxious to get home to-day,and may come the longest way round; yes, it's in my mind she will keep away from Dapplemere as long as ever she can."

The only business of the historian is to relate things exactly as they are: this he can never do as long as he is afraid of Artaxerxes, whose physician {55a} he is; as long as he looks for the purple robe, the golden chain, or the Nisaean horse, {55b} as the reward of his labours; but Xenophon, that just writer, will not do this, nor Thucydides.

As long as you can stop the evil, without doing wrong yourself, you're bringing about a good result.

The changeurs are only too glad to get them; what do they care where they come from as long as they are genuine?

I will be at the wedding, and keep the 30 July as long as my poor months last me, as a festival gloriously.

As long as the people had the monarchical government, they effected nothing of importance: but when they began to live under the democratic system, they became most renowned.

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Let my life then be preserved for the republic, let it be kept for the service of my country as long as my dignity or nature will permit; and let death either be the necessity of fate, or, if it must be encountered earlier, let it be encountered with glory.

It may console Lord Curzon to know that the criticisms of his policy and administration have been directed at every viceroy and governor general of India since the time of Warren Hastings, and they will probably be repeated in the future as long as there are men of different minds and dispositions and different ideas of what is right and proper.

Before we condemn individuals, it is necessary, even in a wicked community, to accuse them of some crime; hence, when Jezebel wished to compass the death of Naboth, men of Belial were suborned to bear false witness against him, and so it was with Stephen, and so it ever has been, and ever will be, as long as there is any virtue to suffer on the rack, or the gallows.

Oh, may we all reap its blessed fruits as long as we live!

When I used to tell her that she was good for nothing, and that her father was a fool to bring her up like that, she would begin to cry, and say that I was a rude boy, and that she would go home that very night, and never forgive me as long as she lived.

And as long as I work fo' Colonel Harvey, one uv de bes' men whut ever lived, we always had cotton-seed and corn-meal to eat.

In some districts the bride remains invisible even during the wedding-dinner, and it is "good form" for her to let the guests wait as long as possible, and not to appear until after considerable coaxing by her mother.

The men were to fire quickly, and stand their ground as long as possible, if necessary sheltering themselves behind trees.

She begged brother Isambard de la Pierre to go and fetch the cross from the church of St. Sauveur, the chief door of which opened on the Vieux-Marche, and to hold it "upright before her eyes till the coming of death, in order," she said, "that the cross whereon God hung might, as long as she lived, be continually in her sight;" and her wishes were fulfilled.

"Keep it from Miller as long as possible.

No; but e'en love one another as long as we can; and confess the truth when we can love no longer.

As long as the builder was called upon to suit those who had lived in houses of their own for many years his task was difficult, but now he will have to do with the young people who know no other life and who will more readily fall in with the standards set by the house itself.

It was all very well to say that as long as the servant did not return his master must be safeperhaps himself on the way home; but the journey from Transylvania was so long, and there were so many difficulties in the way of an Englishman, that there was little security in this assurance.

As long as Scotland lasts, your name will "be associated with gentle and happy Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character.