128 examples of long-lost in sentences

With this she began to hunt with such zeal as if she were seeking a long-lost treasure.

The surprise and joy were too intense for Helen, and she sank fainting into the arms of her long-lost son: while Rodolph grasped his hand, and exclaimed with deep emotion 'Now, God be praised!

You may lose a limousine, but you can afford to risk that as long as you are not in iteh, little long-lost sister?"

The Code, Pandects, Institutes, and Novels are of course the original authority, with the long-lost Institutes of Gaius.

We are practically long-lost brothers.

I then asked him who he was, and found he was our long-lost childI mean levywho had been captured at Laspur.

And to this day a sudden change from gloom to exhilaration is a popular and effective incidentas when, at the end of a melodrama, the handcuffs are transferred from the wrists of the virtuous naval lieutenant to those of the wicked baronet, and, through the disclosure of a strawberry-mark on his left arm, the lieutenant is recognized as the long-lost heir to a dukedom and £50,000 a year.

Her hand was laid upon his headher lips parted as if about to pronounce the promised blessingbut no sounds issued, and she slowly leaned forward on the bosom of the long-lost prodigal, who clasped her in his arms.

We drove into the valley, got out and followed the orderly to a brush-covered arbor, closed on every side but one, out of which came a well set-up, bronzed, bright-eyed man of fifty or thereabout who welcomed us like long-lost friends.

When he had inquired the name of the boy's father, he embraced him with many kind words, and told him that he was the father's long-lost brother, and that as he had no children of his own the boy should be his heir and for the present live with him as his son.

I have found you, at last, my dear, darling, long-lost child.

The hypochondriac Squire Plumworthy is very good, also, in his way, though he verges once or twice on the "heavy father," with a genius for the damp handkerchief and long-lost relative line.

" "I have someone to show me the way," said the Sheriff gently; "and somehow, though I have persecuted and fought against the people sorely, I feel no fear, for Robin Hood is not the man to slay a broken-hearted father who comes in search of his long-lost boy.

the Hermit cried, And clasp'd her to his breast: The wondering fair one turn'd to chide 'Twas Edwin's self that press'd! "Turn, Angelina, ever dear, My charmer, turn to see Thy own, thy long-lost Edwin here, Restored to love and thee.

No more our long-lost Arthur[20] we bewail: All hail, ye genuine Kings!

Does it not bestow on our souls their long-lost ethereal wings?

" It was, indeed, the long-lost son, returning on this day to answer, so much as in him lay, the prayers repeated for fifteen years by his father and mother,returning to see his former home once more, and here, nearly on the threshold, stopped by a snow-storm almost unprecedented at that season.

The drunkard who is quite certain that a total stranger is his long-lost brother, has a greater advantage until it comes to matters of detail.

He is my lawful son, born to me when I was Count of Falconara; Sicily can boast of few houses more ancientis it possible my lord can refuse a father the life of his long-lost child?

"No." "Then you are my long-lost brother!

The moons are passing, and some moon, I shall see my home long-lost, And of all the greetings that meet me, My maiden's will gladden me most.

We were received by the smiling merchants as if we were long-lost daughters suddenly restored, but we practised our newly acquired diplomacy on them to such an extent that their faces soon began to betray the most comic astonishment.

I have just been over to visit my old mistress, Nancy Johnson, and to see if I could get some clue to my long-lost mother, who was sold from me nearly thirty years ago.

O long-lost dream, so sweet of vernal flowers!

Then she’s not a connection of the family,—no long-lost cousin whom I ought to remember?

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