They had ran but a short distance, when they seemed to become stationary, and deep, quick baying succeeded the lengthened and ringing sound of their voices.

It came over the senses like a pleasant dream, as it went swelling up to the hills that skirted the lake, floating away over the water, and dying away in lengthened cadence in the old forests.

And then, so it would seem, as that Eternal Night lengthened itself upon the world, the power of terror grew and strengthened.

The constant annoyances, which the Illyrians inflicted on the neighbours by their corsairs, were in this way put an end to, at least for a lengthened period.

But they were enveloped in a dreamlike brightness, it was themselves deified; the one with hair all white, the other with hair all blond, covering them like an imperial mantle, with features lengthened by ecstasy, exalted to the bliss of angels, with the glance and the smile of immortal youth.

Overhead the dark tissues thinned out and lengthened.

Nothing could reconcile Mary to being separated from Maulevrier for any lengthened period.

Had you gone on across the intervening turf until the lengthened shadow of the nearest goal post was reached you would have seen first a squada veritable awkward squadarranged in a ragged circle and passing a football with much mishandling and many fumbles.

Madame de Trezac's long nose lengthened thoughtfully.

The day had been one lengthened shower, Till moonlight came, with lustre meek, To light up every weeping flower, Like smiles upon a mourner's cheek.

He consequently replied, with an arrogance as unbecoming as it was misplaced, that he had not come to Court to justify himself, but in order to ascertain who were his accusers; and, moreover, added that, having committed no crime, he did not require any pardon; nor could either Henry himself or the Duc de Sully, with whom he had subsequently a lengthened interview, succeed in inducing him to make the slightest confession.

As the day wore on, the rain increased, and the sky put on that dull, gray cast, which denotes a lengthened storm.

But though no particular objects characterized these different scenes, yet they afforded great variety of pleasing views, both as we wound round the several promontories, which discovered new beauties as each scene opened, and when we kept the same scene a longer time in view, stretching along some lengthened reach, where the river is formed into an irregular vista by hills shooting out beyond each other and going off in perspective.

Its colour is black, with the tail white, crossed by a black bar: the beak is of enormous size, of a lengthened, slightly curved, and pointed shape, and on the upper mandible, towards the base, is an extremely large process, equal in thickness to the bill itself, and turning upwards and backwards in the form of a thick, sharp-pointed horn, somewhat resembling the horn of the rhinoceros.

On the screen, the golden lines gradually lengthened.

His stride lengthened, his jaw was set, his gaze riveted on the spot where his road entered the forest.

this prolonged staying away from home was not merely a pleasantly lengthened visit.

The face was finer, and the curves of the figure slightly lengthened; the whole in Beth's sweeping way, rather masterful.

A previous life must die; the apostle calls it the body of sin, the law of sin in our members, and this needs no lengthened discussion.

THE LENGTHENED SHADOW, by William J. Locke.

His speeches are often too long, especially for an English audience; perhaps sometimes they are unnaturally lengthened: and 'tis certainly a greater relief to the ear to have the dialogue more broken; yet our attention is well rewarded, and in no passages, perhaps, in his tragedies, more so, than in the affecting account Melisander gives of his being betrayed, and left on the desolate island.

One notices only the long face still further lengthened by a beard, the domed forehead, the bright eyes, very inscrutable usually, very sympathetic when he chooses to make them so; and when he speaks, a soft voice, quiet and even-toned but often indistinct.

The rear end of the building was opened, and the edifice was lengthened so as to accommodate nearly one-third more people.

From month to month throughout the year, the stakes were strengthened and the cords lengthened.

They were too short by inches but he refused to have them lengthened.