Therefore she wheeled about; and to put all suspicion afar off, and loath to keep him any longer by her, for that she knew secrets are not long-lived, she sent him unknown into Portugal, with the Lady Brampton, an English lady, that embarked for Portugal at that time, with some privado of her own, to have an eye upon him, and there he was to remain, and to expect her further directions.

If we could love and hate with as good heart as the faeries do, we might grow to be long-lived like them.

This consideration is what makes calamity so long-lived! '

Those who do not drink rum are exceedingly long-lived.

durable; lasting &c v.; of long duration, of long-standing; permanent, endless, chronic, long-standing; intransient^, intransitive; intransmutable^, persistent; lifelong, livelong; longeval^, long-lived, macrobiotic, diuturnal^, evergreen, perennial; sempervirent^, sempervirid^; unrelenting, unintermitting^, unremitting; perpetual &c 112. lingering, protracted, prolonged, spun out &c v.. long-pending, long-winded; slow &c 275.

To all appeals for moderation, during the latter years of his life, he had but one answer,that he had six generations of long-lived farmers behind him, and had their strength to draw upon.

"All forms of human government," says Machiavelli, "have, like men, their natural term, and those only are long-lived which possess in themselves the power of returning to the principles on which they were originally founded."

The mule, if he be long-lived, has the same effect in changing his general appearance from youth to old age as is shown on the rest of the animal creation.

My own observation is that in a majority of cases people of mixed blood are very prolific and very long-lived.

In the machinery-building world there is no such thing as a steady long-lived demand for any machine.

The Pantisocracy scheme could not in the nature of things be long-lived.

It is very hardy, long-lived, and, though in time it attains a considerable height, produces branches in abundance, so low as to be always within reach of the hand, and at last affords a beautiful wood for furniture.

Germans are vigorous and Turks are long-lived, and they are all great smokers.

The soil had never submitted to the ploughshare, and the air that circulated through this domain of nature was replete with that balmy fragrance, which was breathed into the lungs of the long-lived race of men, that flourished in the first ages of the world.

I never thought of his dying, he comes of such a long-lived race.

Long-linked, long-lived by public fame, A friend to misery whate'er its claim, Marvel

By chase our long-lived fathers earn'd their food; Toil strung the nerves, and purified the blood: But we their sons, a pamper'd race of men, 90 Are dwindled down to threescore years and ten.

Nothing is so long-lived as a chimera, nothing so difficult to lay as a ghost.

It is a very long-lived tree, as well as an evergreen; the Psalmist says, 'I am like a green olive tree in the house of God.'

His triumph was not, however, long-lived.

Louis, during his expedition into Brittany, had just witnessed the fatal result of a woman's empire over her husband; he was destined himself to offer a more striking and more long-lived example of it.

Before proceeding to trace the history of the last two centuries of the Knights at Malta it will perhaps be advisable to examine the organisation of an Order which was the greatest and most long-lived of all the medieval Orders of Chivalry.

But respect for the shining veneer of the case was not long-lived.

Strange it is, that all bad things are so contagious and so long-lived to punish the innocent for the sins of the guilty.

The Germans are long-lived, and almost every domestic hearthstone supports the easy-chairs of grandparents.