How To Use Long since In A Sentence
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The receipts from his shows have long since moved from the realms of the fantastic into those of the ludicrous.
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Although the zebra long since retired to that savannah in the sky, and his owner herself is more than 30 years gone, the eccentric Winmill might be gratified to know that her phaetons and surreys, curricles and landaulets still command attention.
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This place was afterwards enlarged, and converted into stables for horses; but the old name remained, and now most stables in London are called mews, although the word is derived from falconry, and the hawks have long since flown away.
Old English Sports
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No one knew exactly what inspired her elliptic comments, and her relations had long since given up trying to interpret them.
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Her parents had long since branded her a failure.
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The days when you could just hoof the ball up to a striker have long since gone; even Wimbledon don't play by these tactics any more.
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Tunisia put the ball in Spain's net, but the whistle had long since gone for offside.
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I saw a picture not long since, in Edinburgh, copied from an engraving in Boydell's Shakspeare; subject, -- "Lear (and suite) in the storm," but coloured according to the imagination and taste of the artist; its name ought assuredly to have been _Redcap and the blue-devils_, for the venerable and lamented monarch had fine streaming locks of the real _carrot hue_, whilst his very hideous companions showed _blue_ faces, and blue armour; and with their strangely contorted bodies seemed meet representatives of some of the infernal court.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 341, November 15, 1828
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Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the Devil; for which reason I have, long since, as good as renounced it. Thomas Carlyle
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At that moment, his was a saint's blithesome face, loose and half a-smile with the generosity of his gift and with a becoming neutrality toward his own abilities, as if he had long since cheerfully submitted to knowing that however well he rendered a piece, he could always imagine doing better.
Cold Mountain
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It had been so long since she saw him smile such a simple, uncomplicated smile for her.
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Despite the Cylons being redesigned, the story changed a little, and the complexity ramped up a thousandfold, the new Battlestar Galactica won legions of new fans for a franchise many thought long since dead, and through extras such as the spin-off project Razor (plus other forthcoming films) and the upcoming prequel series Caprica, the Battlestar Galactica story will continue to echo in the science fiction pantheon long after the series has ended.
Galactica Original | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles
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Over Monk Bridge, which was widened in the 1900s, we pass the site of the enlarged gasworks, long since demolished.
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Long since rumoured, it looks like this is actually getting serious.
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Some may use solvents that the art conservation field has long since abandoned, such as benzene and carbon tetrachloride, which are proven carcinogens, or caustic soda otherwise known as lye.
Daniel Grant: Repair Damaged Artwork Yourself? Maybe Not
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It told of desolate, regretted things befallen happy cities long since in the prime of the world.
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I have long since abandoned the notion that higher education is essential to either success or happiness. Hot houses of learning do not always grow anything edible.
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The first memory has long since been parcelled up with my childhood, folded neatly away when my grandmother died eight years ago.
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But I refer you to a learned author, who hath long since assoiled this difficulty, and taught us to distinguish between a Jew en tō phanerō and a Jew en tō kruptō, of Israel according to “the flesh” and according to “the promise.”
The Doctrine of the Saints��� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed
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These once supplied the great lava flows that built a shield volcano, long since ruined and dismantled by time.
THE EARTH: An Intimate History
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The manat was formerly divided into 100 gopiks, but this has long since become obsolete due to inflation early in the nation's independence.
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Although it's so long since I took a linguistics subject that I'd forgotten what a dipthong is and had to Wiki it... are you able to kind of spell out how bead would be pronounced if it were dipthongised vs. not dipthongised?
Also, WTF?
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I have long since abandoned the notion that higher education is essential to either success or happiness. Hot houses of learning do not always grow anything edible.
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Our allotted hour has long since elapsed, but she is in no hurry to go.
Times, Sunday Times
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They required reserves of energy long since depleted.
Times, Sunday Times
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Talmudists speak much, and hyperbolically enough: which nevertheless they confess to be turned long since into miserable barrenness; but are dim-sighted as to the true cause of it.
From the Talmud and Hebraica
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We queried whether the doctor became hungry on the second day, but he assured us that he's long since become accustomed to no-food days.
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Many corporations have long since figured out that a small short term outlay in the present to create environmental sustainability can produce huge cost savings in the future and win scores of PR brownie points at the same time.
Philip Slater: A Misconception by Pessimists
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Mr Snippet will long since have abandoned all hope that I was ever going to respond to what he had to say, but I never quite forgot his point, and periodically, while shaving or whatever, I have been mulling things over.
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The guards behind her had long since left and Ashley stared at the entrance with longing.
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The traveler of a generation ago over this particular section of the Santa Fe lines might have felt that there was some truth in this criticism; but the Atchison has long since cut out these idiosyncrasies of early construction, and the main line in this section of New Mexico is now noted for alinement and absence of curves and grades.
The Railroad Builders; a chronicle of the welding of the states
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Both, however, had long since exchanged hustle and hostility for control and variation.
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To me, this paints a picture of a deeply insecure woman who had long since waved goodbye to the verge of paranoia and blundered into the chasm of abject delusion.
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The tunic was laced up the front, and its sleeves had long since gone the way of bandages; she left it open at the throat for freedom of movement, and wore a patched cambric shirt beneath.
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The acid bite of belly desire had long since deserted him, and he, too, ate from a sense of duty, all meat tasting alike to him.
CHAPTER XVI
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And then, with his expression hardening, he turns to the other agenda, the real one, the one the Brotherhood has nursed along since 1928--including a long period of of ideological alliance with the Nazis--the agenda that its Palestinian branch is applying in Gaza.
Bernard-Henri Lévy: Egypt: Year Zero
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I know it has been so long since I wrote, and I am so dreadfully sorry.
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But if a change is as good as a rest, Smith has long since woken from his catnap.
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Those dispossessed in these savage deportations have long since resettled, and no serious movement demands their return home.
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I suspect he's buried in a pauper's grave somewhere there in that little town's cemetery, long since forgotten.
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John, of course, had long since lost his northern accent and took delight in his appearance as the well-heeled businessman.
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Our parents long since disappeared into the vacuum of the war.
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Her people's era on West 107th long since past, Mrs. Weissman had no fondness for the coarse new crowd, and in truth, was a kind of pitiable figure - a yenta who had lost her nosiness.
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But this new theology is vulnerable because it has long since lost any touch with reality.
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We were entering the old obstetric unit: the wards long since closed through lack of funding.
NIGHT SISTERS
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It is set in the offices of the Olympic Deliverance Commission deliverance, geddit? around two years away from the start of the Games, with Mama Cass's rockets and bells having long since faded.
Ken Bates and the art of slow seduction cannot help but leave me cold| Martin Kelner
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I have long since abandoned the notion that higher education is essential to either success or happiness. Hot houses of learning do not always grow anything edible.
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A pay phone situated in the garden has long since lost its dialling tone, so if there's a case of personation he may have difficulty contacting the gardaí.
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They have long since outlived their usefulness.
Times, Sunday Times
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Though the Romans have long since abandoned the practice, the name lives on in Jerusalem and other cities home to Israel's 700,000 ultra-Orthodox Jews, about 9 percent of the national population.
Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
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Now, though Captain Riga had not been guilty of any particular outrage against the sailors; yet, by a thousand small meannesses -- such as indirectly causing their allowance of bread and beef to be diminished, without betraying any appearance of having any inclination that way, and without speaking to the sailors on the subject -- by this, and kindred actions, I say, he had contracted the cordial dislike of the whole ship's company; and long since they had bestowed upon him a name unmentionably expressive of their contempt.
Redburn. His First Voyage
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They required reserves of energy long since depleted.
Times, Sunday Times
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This has, indeed, long since been insufferable; although it ought chiefly to be imputed to the imprudent penuriousness of our own merchants and inhabitants, who, it is to be hoped, shall, through the abolition of this seawant, become wiser and more prudent.
Knickerbocker's History of New York, Complete
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They had long since come to an accommodation with each other.
FRIENDS FOR LIFE
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Brahms's chamber and symphonic music has long since triumphed in the concert hall.
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Envelope with my name carefully lettered in the handwriting I had long since learned to identify as Old Person, Angry.
Good in Bed
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I have long since abandoned the notion that higher education is essential to either success or happiness. Hot houses of learning do not always grow anything edible.
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Thus, the escape was one for which custom had long since imposed strict liability on the occupier of the land.
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It isn't so long since we were carrying stories and readers' letters complaining about the state of the railway embankments on the approaches to Bradford.
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The blockade has long since become indefensible.
Times, Sunday Times
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However, in this situation, like most others, we smokers have a slight advantage; our nasal nerves have long since been deadened with a film of tar.
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The sun had long since set, and now the headlights of passing vehicles dazzled eyes used to the blackness.
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You see, Sucreños are still quite upset with Evo for having blatantly ignored their request to consider moving the capital (which, constitutionally is in Sucre, yet only the judicial branch remains here, the executive and legislative branches having long since moved to La Paz) back to Sucre.
¡Que Viva Sucre! « Wanderings
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The horse has long since bolted.
Times, Sunday Times
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Aladdin's nemesis, Jafar, has long since been despatched to the after-life, but his evil sister Nasira has found a way to bring back the dastardly villain by invoking the ‘spell of restoration’.
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And any social stigma once associated with home-swapping as a déclassé activity has long since vanished.
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Most have long since gone, leaving behind their legacy of sunless, blanket afforestation.
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I have long since abandoned the notion that higher education is essential to either success or happiness. Hot houses of learning do not always grow anything edible.
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My father who started the business has long since given up trying to make me like him.
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The dead had long since been cast over the side, their scant possessions and weapons cradled in their embrace.
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There is an elm about a mile from the village seventeen feet in girth, and not long since we heard of a bass-wood or linden twenty-eight feet in circumference.
Rural Hours
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They'd long since outgrown his father's minuscule house where they looked after his sick mother.
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It is not fashionable these days, in a world in which the apostles of the free market hold sway, to cite Karl Marx, who has long since been demonized in the cathedrals of capitalism.
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The hoisting beam still jutted out from the roof but its wheel had long since rusted from years of disuse.
ALASTAIR MCLEAN'S 'NIGHT WATCH'
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Dad had long since divested himself of anything valuable.
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These deciduous shrubs have long since escaped from gardens and naturalised in the least hospitable places.
Times, Sunday Times
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This poetizer, who seems to have been wholly devoid of genius, but to have possessed a certain talent for hitting the taste of the hour, was then held in high esteem; he has long since been forgotten.
Robert Burns
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The vibrant football that ushered in the start of the season has long since passed and is in danger of becoming a distant memory.
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The quiet, sharp-eyed servants had long since been sent to their attic bedchambers for the night to be replaced by the quieter, sharp-eyed mice who rustled the walls and wainscoting.
Earl of Durkness
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However, this deadline has long since passed and no application appears to be forthcoming.
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Among genres long since completed and inpart already dead, the novel is the only developing genre.
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These deciduous shrubs have long since escaped from gardens and naturalised in the least hospitable places.
Times, Sunday Times
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Other signs there are taken from physiognomy, metoposcopy, chiromancy, which because Joh. de Indagine, and Rotman, the landgrave of Hesse his mathematician, not long since in his
Anatomy of Melancholy
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I sat on a log among the shadows of creatures now extinct and others long since departed for pasture in the south.
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Of course I assisted him as well as I could under the circumstances, but as he limped along towards the companion-hatchway, the leader of the desperadoes, that villainous "marquis," who I thought had met with his just deserts long since, not having seen him for some little time among the other fighters, most unexpectedly jumped from the rigging in front of the colonel and aimed a vindictive blow at him with a marline-spike.
The Ghost Ship A Mystery of the Sea
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Multicolored volcanic ash flows, long since hardened to jagged rock, reach into the sea like fantastic taffy mountains.
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The sun had been long since covered by the mass of clouds that obscured the grey sky when the new recruitment returned upon a chestnut mare with a large backpack upon his shoulders.
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Were it not fur her, I dare say Edward Plantagenet would long since have succumbed to ennui and despair.
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The paramilitary organisations on both sides have long since been political fronts for gangsterism and racketeering.
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I wonder if these were partly caused by the urban residents themselves who have long since shown little concern, even disdain, for those who trade physical labour for subsistence.
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In that diocese such precautions are probably unnecessary since confession - now called the Sacrament of Reconciliation by almost nobody - has long since fallen into desuetude.
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'In perusing these old catalogues one cannot help being astonished at the sudden and great increase of books; and when one reflects that a great, perhaps the greater, part of them no longer exists, this perishableness of human labours will excite the same sensations as those which arise in the mind when one reads in a church-yard the names and titles of persons long since mouldered into dust.
The Book-Hunter at Home
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The club's long since gone but the memories of those starry nights have never faded.
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So I'd been needing a couple of much larger external hard drives for some time, one to hold the music collection that had long since overspilled the Maxtor 200 Gb drive, and one to backup the entire system.
Sometimes you're the windshield, sometimes you're the bug
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I have long since abandoned the notion that higher education is essential to either success or happiness. Hot houses of learning do not always grow anything edible.
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Over a decade later, Schmid's film makes clear that for the vast majority of Germans weeds in the garden have long since choked any budding flowers.
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Its time has long since passed, on many levels, the least of which is its provincial ideas note the casual bigotry in the ‘toy Negress’ Robert plays with and the anti-Semitic caricatures the bourgeoisie portray in one of their musical numbers.
CRITERION: THE RULES OF THE GAME | Obsessed With Film
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Mitchell had matured and quieted much by then and had long since left her flapper days behind.
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And whether people came here for comfort, memories or merely to witness what, with remarkable near-timing, proves quietly and unpretentiously to be one of the best line-ups all year, they've long since discovered that they've found it.
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The lights and decorations have long since attracted the attentions of locals but now it seems even tourists are taking memories of them home.
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He had long since doffed his knit shirt, having worked up a sweat with all his chores.
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Even if he won't admit Leone as a direct influence, the film reinforces the sense that samurai movies and spaghetti westerns, gangster pics and Hollywood ‘oaters’ have long since become completely intertwined.
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Dad had long since divested himself of anything valuable.
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The hoisting beam still jutted out from the roof but its wheel had long since rusted from years of disuse.
ALASTAIR MCLEAN'S 'NIGHT WATCH'
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But leaders, having achieved self-possession, have long since recovered their creative powers, too, and have continued to grow.
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It's been way too long since lawmakers tackled the problem of stage-struck parents who exploit their kids.
Diane Dimond: Kids + Reality TV = Bad Combination
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A buckskin stallion, though his coat was not a dusty pale hue, but a vibrant gold, standing about sixteen hands tall and with the most intelligent eyes that had long since captured the boy's admiration.
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In fact, after I drooled for a while over the date cake and got all teary-eyed reading her story behind the recipe, I continued to peruse her site some more, finding some other recipes I had long since saved to make as well as a couple new gems.
Archive 2009-04-01
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It was a work of no common difficulty or danger; a steed of less "mettle and bone" had long since sunk in the effort; as it was, the Baron's boots were full of water, and Grey Dolphin's chamfrain more than once dipped beneath the wave.
Half-Hours with Great Story-Tellers
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Captain Robins was a Yorkshireman in his fifties who had long since lost his accent amidst the welter of a dozen dialects.
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Time warp back to 1994: Princeton Coffee House (long since closed) with the crew to talk poetry and literature (i.e., girls hung out there), evenings by the fountain, andmy first cigarette.
The Cranberries – Ode To My Family | clusterflock
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We were entering the old obstetric unit: the wards long since closed through lack of funding.
NIGHT SISTERS
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His friends had long since vanished, leaving him to sort out the problem he was in by himself.
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The quilt has needed to be restitched a number of times, and the tag identifying its maker has long since fallen off.
Quilts Are Forever
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The studio's 1951 hit Alice in Wonderland was based on Lewis Carroll's novel, published 86 years earlier and long since reverted to the public domain.
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The blockade has long since become indefensible.
Times, Sunday Times
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He might have writ himself _armigero_ in many a bill, or obligation, or quittance, or what not; he might have left something behind him save unpaid tavern bills; he might have heard cases, harried poachers, and quoted old saws; and slept in his own family chapel through sermons yet unwrit, beneath his presentment, done in stone, and a comforting bit of Latin: but he is dead long since.
The Line of Love Dizain des Mariages
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He made his money that way, and it is not long since he was a timberman on this same lode.
The Wedge of Gold
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The tribes formerly inhabiting this coast have long since been annihilated by continual wars, whose destructive effects have unpeopled this part of the country.
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Our homes had long since ceased being some sort of oasis of tranquility with the kids and the toys and Dora blaring from the TV.
» Returning from Maternity Leave Strocel.com
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It is difficult to bring ourselves to sacrifice and self-denial, because in political, public and private life we have long since dropped the golden key of self-restraint to the ocean floor.
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Evidence had been presented and transcripts published long ago; the details of the crime had long since come to light.
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It's so long since it rained that the river-bed is dry.
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There is such a thing as rudimen - tary organs which served functions long since fallen in disuse and now unremembered.
The Kempton-Wace Letters
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Around the archer's waist and legs were 15 arrowheads, suggesting that a quiver of hafted arrows had been scattered over his lower body and legs, but the bow had long since rotted away.
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The 22-year-old has long since moved on from Project 45 – his plan to eclipse the career-best ranking of Shuzo Matsuoka, the Wimbledon quarter-finalist who retired in 1996 – rising to 24th in the world in November.
Australian Open 2012: Ivan Lendl to help Andy Murray take the next step
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Like everything else in the club, the stage and the floor had once been painted white, but the scuffing heels of a thousand boots had long since covered every surface in rubbery grey grime.
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Most of them had long since fallen asleep but he felt this deep feeling of worry troubling him.
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In Maronia pia, or Maronia felix, I know not whether, nor how long since, nor in what cathedral church, a fat prebend fell void.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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It's been so long since we talked that you can feel the distance between us.
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The sun had long since faded by this time and the sky was growing darker by the minute.
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It had actually been so long since I'd had a real shower, that I accidentally ricocheted the bar of soap around the small shower.
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It was, no doubt, the fact that age and good living had made Sir Anthony altogether incapable of enjoying the kind of life which he desiderated, and that he would probably have eaten and drunk himself into his grave long since had that kind of life been within his reach.
The Belton Estate
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It is long since Sydney Smith expressed his views as to the chilliness which is the general characteristic of the Anglican pulpit.
The Recreations of a Country Parson
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That fabric has long since been sundered and social anarchy has been the consequence.
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He knew exactly how and where to aim his weapon, was an excellent judge of distance, and had long since taught himself to watch the front sight and squeeze the trigger when a living thing was in his gunsights.
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The peasantry have long since disappeared, the independent shopkeeper is being destroyed, the small businessman is diminishing in numbers.
The Lion and the Unicorn
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I have long since abandoned the notion that higher education is essential to either success or happiness. Hot houses of learning do not always grow anything edible.
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Amidst the colorful decoration of the Shriners Temple replete with Art Deco artifacts (such as the gold-leaf brass torchier lamp still with original fixture and shade), gold leaf paint details and soft leather-upholstered chairs (the original tapestry had, alas, long since worn off and could not be affordably replaced), Michelle strikes a Las Vegas Diva pose for photographer dondelion.
Who's That Lady?
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In the centre of the sward was a small artificial lake, long since dried up, and adorned then with a profusion of fountains, that seemed to scatter coolness around the glowing air.
The Last of the Barons — Volume 04
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I had long since grown used to the eccentricities of his driving technique.
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The next stop was Lake City, -- a name illustrative of Californian megalomania; for the lake, long since gone dry, was merely an artificial reservoir to supply a neighboring mine, and the city was a collection of half a dozen buildings including a store and a hotel.
Forty-one Thieves A Tale of California
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This decades-old machine has long since been surpassed by bevatrons and linear accelerators.
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Although it was originally designed to be redundant and robust to a nuclear explosion, it's long since dropped the redundance.
An Energy Internet?, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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It avoided those well-trodden media ruts that lead to aged baby-boomer creatives who have long since stopped being interesting.
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As he had long since bitterly learned, any white man was as much dynamite as was the mysterious death-dealing missile he sometimes employed.
CHAPTER X
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For on a national level, New Labour has long since abandoned any Old Labour-style antagonism towards private education.
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And besides, it did not seem reasonable that he should be right — he who had stood, so short a time before, in that same living room, blushing and awkward, acknowledging his introduction, looking fearfully about him at the bric-a-brac his swinging shoulders threatened to break, asking how long since
Chapter 24
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The poorhouses and the debtors' prisons have long since closed.
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These adventitious, or opportunistic, roots grow in clusters along older roots - even on larger roots whose laterals have long since died back.
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Here, the aging gangster Sydney, long since retired from both his "hardass" days and his big-stakes gambling days, takes under his wing both the down-on-his-luck John and the sad-eyed prostitute/waitress Clementine Gwyneth Paltrow.
Archive 2008-01-01
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A woman in her mid-fifties stood on a ladder organizing books on a top shelf, her stiff, dark hair long since made limp by the humidity.
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This allegation comes on top of the fact that the rule of natural justice that accused have the right to a speedy trial has long since gone out of the window.
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Dad had long since divested himself of anything valuable.
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These cats were scrappy old toms and they'd long since cleared out the competition of other cats, but they were friends themselves.
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How I shall henceforth dwell on the blessed hours when, not long since, I saw that benignant face, the clear eyes, the silently smiling mouth, the form yet upright in its great ageto the very last, with so much spring and cheeriness, and such an absence of decrepitude, that even the term venerable hardly seemd fitting.
By Emerson’s Grave. Specimen Days
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I'd long since lost the ability to understand human speech.
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The culture of the nation is to be replaced by one suitable only for rootless and deracinated people - a people that can be deluded that what it is told to think and believe is really ‘universal’ because it has long since ceased to have any real culture of its own.
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Martin Ballius and his companions, maintained this opinion not long since in France, whose error is confuted by Beza in a just volume.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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The idea of this third solution is very old indeed, and the French have long since baptized it with a pertinent name.
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It is long since we have as good a lyrist; it will be long before we have his superior.
Uncollected Prose
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And yet I have no purpose to enter into a laudative of learning, or to make a hymn to the Muses (though I am of opinion that it is long since their rites were duly celebrated), but my intent is, without varnish or amplification justly to weigh the dignity of knowledge in the balance with other things, and to take the true value thereof by testimonies and arguments, divine and human.
The Advancement of Learning
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And frankly, all the foolish falderal from the Me Decade has long since dissolved into a conglomeration of good will.
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Now, having long since left behind the toil of the sea, he hefted flasks of whiskey instead of halyards, ladled grog instead of tar, or polished glass instead of brass.
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An old blanket-coat, or wrap-rascal, once white, but now of the same muddy brown hue that stained his visage -- and once also of sufficient length to defend his legs, though the skirts had long since been transferred to the cuffs and elbows, where they appeared in huge patches -- covered the upper part of his body; while the lower boasted a pair of buckskin breeches and leather wrappers, somewhat its junior in age, but its rival in mud and maculation.
Nick of the Woods
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White cobwebs hung from one corner of the shop, the occupant long since dead, molt shells from various insects scattered across the floor.
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If a traveler had been passing through, they would not have noticed that the cobbles in the square were uneven and had long since been denied attention.
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The winter had tried the last pair to their utmost endurance and the "rheumatiz" had long since got the last dollar, so she came with her chubby little sunburned legs bare.
Letters of a Woman Homesteader
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The "Manchester school" of political economy has long since passed into reproach if not obloquy with people for whom a byword is a potent weapon, and perhaps the easiest they can handle, and
Seven English Cities
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Among the voices of the choir, was one whose expression immediately fixed her attention; it seemed to speak a loftier sentiment of devotion than the others, and to be modulated by the melancholy of an heart, that had long since taken leave of this world.
The Italian
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The mammoth and the sabre-toothed tiger may have long since passed into the palaeontology history books but one of their contemporaries, a diminutive snail, is clinging to existence in Yorkshire.
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Our allotted hour has long since elapsed, but she is in no hurry to go.
Times, Sunday Times
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I have long since abandoned the notion that higher education is essential to either success or happiness. Hot houses of learning do not always grow anything edible.
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Sharp criticism indicates that NICE's honeymoon period is long since over and that there is, or will be, resistance to implementation of pieces of guidance that are particularly expensive or clinically unpersuasive.
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The sober dark suits and flowing robes of 34 ministers and their minders have long since left for the airport.
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A few blocks away are Kelly Ingram Park, with its statues of police dogs and fire hoses, and the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, long since repaired from the bombing.
All things reconsidered: NPR's Michele Norris tells her family's complete story
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It had of course long since gone to the highest bidder, a Dubai company planning to raise an arcology on the site.
365 tomorrows » 2010 » February : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day
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So with the number of options diminishing, and last orders long since called, we reluctantly about-faced and came out the same way.
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The country has long since hardened into its own shape, and whether it holds together or breaks into pieces is largely up to the Iraqis who now have it in their hands.
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These cats were scrappy old toms and they'd long since cleared out the competition of other cats, but they were friends themselves.
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The graveyard has historical value - not only does it tell you about who the people were who lived here but also their occupation, occupations that are long since gone such as quarrymen and shoemakers.
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They have long since outlived their usefulness.
Times, Sunday Times
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It was not so very long since my kind friend, Sir William Lawrence, one of the ablest men whom I have known, had been well-nigh ostracised for his book "On Man," which now might be read in a Sunday school without surprising anybody; it was only a few years since the electors to the chair of Natural History in a famous northern university had refused to invite a very distinguished man to occupy it because he advocated the doctrine of the diversity of species of mankind, or what was called "polygeny.
The Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley
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In fact, the Southern Califorian band had long since become as big a mass commodity as any band you can name.
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It was hard to believe that it had been so long since Davedar had arrived at Danhera an arrogant princeling.
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Even though her parents have long since died, she still talks about them in the present tense.
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I have long since abandoned the notion that higher education is essential to either success or happiness. Hot houses of learning do not always grow anything edible.
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It is long since it became no wonder to us that the greatest and in fact the only, real pastoral poet should have been a Sicilian; but it is a marvel indeed, that, having forgotten to bring his _Eclogues_ with us, we cannot, through the whole of Sicily, find a copy of Theocitus for sale, though there is a _Sicilian_ translation of him to be had at Palermo.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 56, No. 345, July, 1844
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Much of the mountain consists of volcanic ash, long since hardened to jagged rock.
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Everything else has long since changed; the cards pulped (or worse), but at least the loo is still there.
The Cards
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(In fact, one of these computers was a jewel, an antique Yarkonan firestone whose lights had long since dimmed.
THE BROKEN GOD
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The government had long since perceived that the way west depended on the transcontinental railroad.
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Long since abandoned by the sea, Rye is now a hilltop town affording super views of the surrounding countryside.
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The Lead sled is the greatest thing to come along since sliced bread.
The Lead Sled--America's Shame?
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The lugger had long since gone away, its escape from the shoaly bay assisted by the rising tide.
IRONCROWN MOON: PART TWO OF THE BOREAL MOON TALE
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I've long since stopped staying in Byron itself, but the surrounds remain my heaven on a stick.
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And now she was a baby-mother; playing with her infant as, not so very long since, she had played with her doll; twisting its tiny fingers, and making them close tightly round her own, which were quite as elfin-like, comparatively.
Olive A Novel
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Many of the Roundtable's acolytes and supporters have long since left the country, there being no work here for restructurers and privatisers.
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Hong Kong's leaders are simply reluctant to employ a tried-and-tested policy mechanism long since enacted in the U.K., U.S., Australia, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan, South Korea, the Philippines and even mainland China: an archives law.
Hong Kong's Blind Spot
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Understand then (Noble Ladies) that neere to Sicily, there is a small Island, commonly called Liparis, wherein (not long since) lived a yong Damosell, named Constance, born of very sufficient parentage in the same Island.
The Decameron
