Do we say longer or success

longer 19966 occurrences

This stupendous structure is eliptical in form, measuring 615 feet through the longer diameter and 510 feet through the shorter, covering more than 5-1/2 acres of ground.

No longer is he affable and courteous, but silent, reserved, and sullen.

With the year 1830 began a new era in European politics,a period of reform, not always successful, but enough to show that the spirit of innovation could no longer be suppressed; that the subterranean fires of liberty would burst forth when least expected, and overthrow the strongest thrones.

I confess I am taken, [4904] "Sola haec inflexit sensus, animumque labentem Impulit" I could hold out no longer.

" "He could find in his heart to be killed instantly, lest if he live longer, some sorrow or sickness should contaminate his joys."

Emoriar cum ista non amplius mihi cura fuerit, let me live no longer than I may love, saith a mad merry fellow in Mimnermus.

"O Neaera, put your tricks, and practise hereafter upon somebody else, you shall befool me no longer."

"Cum se cutis arida laxat, Fiunt obscuri dentes" when they wax old, and ill-favoured, they may commonly no longer abide them,Jam gravis es nobis, Be gone, they grow stale, fulsome, loathsome, odious, thou art a beastly filthy quean,faciem Phoebe cacantis habes, thou art Saturni podex, withered and dry, insipida et vetula,Te quia rugae turpant, et capitis nives, (I say) be gone, portae patent, proficiscere.

This time he could no longer doubt, the catastrophe was coming, was upon them already.

His heart seemed gripped by the void; he felt he could no longer live if his faith in the reason of men and their mutual love was destroyed, if he was forced to acknowledge that the Credo of his life and art rested on a mistake, that a dark pessimism was the answer to the riddle of the world.

The same questions, the same trials menaced them, but each man was no longer alone to stand or fall, and the warmth of this contact was reassuring.

He ceased to find fault with everything and everybody, he no longer railed at all that was done or undone, for now he was filled with a sacred pity for the entire social bodythat body, now his, but stronger, better, and more beautiful.

Enthusiasm had not diminished behind the lines, and Clerambault persisted in vibrating like an organ pipe, but Maxime no longer gave back the echo he sought to evoke.

The important thing was to make a noise, since one could no longer speak one's real thoughts, and naturally he fell back on everyday matters.

Wearied as they were by their tramping and the hot sun, clouds of dust that they encountered harrassed them greatly, so that they could no longer walk nor yet speak, but only utter the word "Water, water!"

They cannot bear to sit at table a moment longer than is absolutely necessary.

On the contrary, the empty boast of freedom is heard in the following words of solemn mockery: "The soul of man here no longer sits bound and blind amid the despotic forms of the past; it walks abroad without a shackle, and with an uncovered eye."

He was dressed quite neatly now, and his hands were no longer blue with cold, but Eustace knew at once that it was the man who had given him the handbill.

Dangerous burglars do not weep, and Bennett hesitated no longer, but stepped past the open flaps of the counter, and threw open the door of the inner office.

He kept on threatening and I couldn't wait any longer.

For two years Dale was a great man, or rather the great man, and it is probable that if he had not died he would have held his position for a longer period.

During John's confinement in his last sickness on one occasion while attending on him, he exclaimed, 'oh, Nancy, Miss Nancy, I haven't much longer in this world, I feel as if my whole body inside and all my bones were beaten into a jelly.'

The recollection, too, of the land they had left was more tender on this quiet day, and past joys and trials were often recalled with a kind of melancholy pleasure, sometimes with an almost regretful feeling that the scenes in which they had laughed and toiled should know them no longer.

Nor was the neighboring country less changed and improved: the narrow blazed tracks which had formerly led to Mr. Watson's and to Painted Posts had widened into well-travelled roads; and clearings visible on hill-sides in the distance, and frequent columns of curling smoke rising above the far-off tree-tops, gave evidence of the habitations of men, and that our emigrants were no longer alone in the wilderness.

But some of the children were children no longer.

success 12852 occurrences

So when Moppet and Betty appeared, rosy with success and a fair-sized bag of nuts as the result of their joint labors, they found the household in a state of suppressed excitement, and lo!

This time Moppet's astonishment was real, and Peter chuckled at his success in news-telling.

She calls every one by their Christian name, and always catches hold of the men's coats, or fixes their buttonholes or ties, or holds their arms and whispers: and every one is in love with her, and she has the greatest success.

" "I will not ask what the plan is," rejoined the grocer, "because I doubt its success.

None of its inhabitants thought of retiring to rest, or if they sought repose after the excessive fatigue they had undergone, it was only in such manner as would best enable them to rise and renew their exertions to check the flames, which were continued throughout the night, but wholly without success.

They speak of the utility and success of railroads, when, according to their showing, there is no produce to be sent to market, when agriculture has been paralyzed, and Jamaica swept to destruction.

The expedition was in peril, and it was wise to take every chance possible that would help secure success.

The docks, the dredging operations, the warehouses, the stores and shops, all tell of energy and success in commercial life.

Zoologically the trip had been a thorough success.

His success will depend on his presence of mind.

Goyn, a most winsome man and eloquent preacher, ministered with marked success to the churches of Niskayuna, Green Point, Rhinebeck, and Port Jervis, New York, and Paramus, New Jersey.

In Philadelphia, an earlier pastorate, "he preached to great congregations of eager listeners, and with a success unparalleled in the history of that city and rare in modern times."

"For the present life they can think of no higher happiness than success in acquiring wealth, and the highest happiness after death consists in having sons to supply the wants of their spirits.

Mr. Talmage continues: "I cannot close this letter without saying a word in reference to our prospects of success.

Heretofore He has given success to His servants.

(In Success, Aug. 1926)

SEE Birmingham, George A. HARBAN, CAROLINE HUGHES. Christianity and success.

Stephen Schappler (E); 14Nov55; R159517. HUGHES, EDWIN HOLT. Christianity and success.

HUGHES, FRANCES MONTGOMERY. Christianity and success.

The committee went to the Board of Education once more, this time with better success.

How much the women attempt, how difficult they find their task, how much opposition they encounter, and how certain their success in the end, is indicated in a modest report of the Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, Women's Civic Club.

Follows an era of feminist control and a Bolshevist revolution contrived by one Cohen (with the authentic properties, "Crimson Guards" and purple morality), and finally the Restoration through the loyalist Navy, the complacent Anymoon consoling himself with the reflection that if he was a failure as CROMWELL he can at least be a success as General MONK.

If I cannot credit him with complete success it is because the subsidiary tale of love which he gives us is really too anaemic.

Not to go out with the conviction that he was vanishing amid the glory of success, was to him to be wretched at his last moment, and to be wretched at his last moment, or to anticipate that he should be so, was to him,even so near his last hours,the acme of misery.

How much of life was left to him, so that he might recover something of success?

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