How To Use So long In A Sentence
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No matter that there were no green beans or zucchinies or that bok choy is Asian not Mediterranean, minestrone is primarily a vegetable soup and so long as you have a couple of primary flavours right, the rest will take care of itself.
At My Table
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It wasn't so long ago that a request for a third glass of fino sherry would raise a few eyebrows and mutterings about a drink problem.
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Another reason I could write that book was being an only child for so long, and spoiled, I never have believed that there could be consequences to my actions.
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It proved necessary to row ashore in a small dinghy, plunging through the hot spray past a Turkish battleship that had been moored for so long that the coral had grown up around it, immobilising it forever.
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So long as the defendant does not communicate his intention, he commits no offence.
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He was a large, meaty, oily type of man — a kind of ambling, gelatinous formula of the male, with the usual sound commercial instincts of the Jew, but with an errant philosophy which led him to believe first one thing and then another so long as neither interfered definitely with his business.
The Titan
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At least it is not, so long as we avoid equivocating on the notion of satisfying a desire.
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It would certainly explain in part why the 31-year-old Watson took so long to win his first PGA Tour event, the 2010 Travelers Championship (he defeated his Ryder Cup captain, Corey Pavin, in a play-off).
Bubba Watson and Dustin Johnson add power to USA's Ryder Cup bid
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So long as there is a demand for the produce, illegal excavations and the smuggling of antiquities will continue.
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The amazing thing is that it was kept secret for so long.
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I am having this recurring nightmare that I will be stuck in traffic for so long that I will die and my body decompose beyond recognition before anyone notices.
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Not so long ago, the major film critics in the U.S. fancifully tossed around the idea of the ‘death of cinema.’
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That it doesn't matter if you cheat on your wife, so long as she doesn't find out.
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The village spirits are considered benign, helping people to have good and happy lives so long as proper rituals are observed.
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It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop.
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It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop.
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There is only so long you can ignore that kind of behaviour, even knowing that the little blighter has a bowl filled to the brim with tasty kitty treats in the kitchen.
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Each player starts off with one chamelion card of any color, so long as no two players have the same color.
Archive 2008-07-01
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Perhaps he wanted a serious chat to find out why her eighth album is taking so long to hit stores.
The Sun
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Good, bad, or meaningless, there it will be: bunchy with fat or sagging from the bone, fading, freckling, wrinkling, and drooping so long as flesh endures.
Beginner’s Grace
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I was actually born in New Zealand, but I've lived in England for so long that it feels like home now.
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It was the greatest joy to me to see some of those things in Mme. Ricard's library, that I had read and dreamed about so long in my head.
Daisy
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Let me care for Hester in my own way so long as I do no sin and harm no one; and be you father to us, and bless us who else must go unblessed.
The Kempton-Wace Letters
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Beauvoir, Alphonse Karr, Émile Souvestre, who, to no small extent individually and to a very great extent when taken in battalion, helped to conquer that supreme reputation for amusingness, for pastime, which the French novel has so long enjoyed throughout Europe.
A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century
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That is why they let the banks get away with so much for so long.
Times, Sunday Times
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| Reply | Permalink countercharge that for so long set Dems quaking and scurrying off to their consultants for advice.
Obama Decries "Second Gilded Age"
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I would like your temperate drinker to pause, and reflect upon the fact, that the quantity of brandy or rum that he took at a drink, when he commenced this downhill course, has been gradually increased; so that in the second year, what had been quite sufficient to please his palate and produce all the desired effects in the first, was then insipidly small; and more so in the third year, if, mayhap, he could with any decency lay claim to the title of _temperate drinker_ so long.
Select Temperance Tracts
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Call me a fool to be holding onto this unrequited love for so long.
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So long as tutors and governesses only had to deal with their own pupils, all went well, but when the brothers and sisters were all together, and influenced by the spirit of insubordination and love of playing pranks which the elder ones brought back from school, we made life hard and sour to the preceptorial body.
Memoirs (Vieux Souvenirs) of the Prince de Joinville
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But at the same time, take a lesson from the union that not so long ago, voted in a new president and the $300,000 bank account suddenly evaporated.
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He is a friendly enough person, so long as you don't cross him in his business plans.
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The title of the movie refers to the proverbial elephant in the living room - the big problem that is ignored for so long that people are no longer able to recognize it.
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An extra arm placed off-centre wouldn't do, you see, but Medusa-style hair of snakes would be fine (so long as it was balanced by a single of similar scale - say, a large beard).
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Even then, you had been under it so long that we had to resort to the wonderful little pulmotor after trying both the Sylvester and
Gold of the Gods
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One pretty little wader, an avoset, appears as if standing on stilts, its legs are so long; and its bill seems bent the wrong way, or upward.
Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa
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By the time I actually made it to the clinic, I had been awake so long, and had been depriving myself of anything other than just water, that I was beginning to hallucinate.
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So long as the public will pay for gross personalities, obscenity, and slang, decent journals will be outbidden in the market.
Eighty Years and More: Reminiscences 1815-1897
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Yet for it to have lasted so long is little short of miraculous.
Times, Sunday Times
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The president need not step down so long as the elections are held under international supervision.
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She doesn't seem to be sporting a new hairdo, so what could possibly have taken so long?
The Sun
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The silly pretext of difficulties by which my erasure, notwithstanding the reiterated solicitations of the victorious General, was so long delayed made me apprehensive of a renewal, under a weak and jealous pentarchy, of the horrible scenes of 1796.
Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon
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exploiter" so long as he follows any pursuit, however honorable and productive, in which a Christian might engage in his stead.
History of the Jews in Russia and Poland. Volume II From the death of Alexander I. until the death of Alexander III. (1825-1894)
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Never thought of _death_, or even looked upon it, for mother told us there was no need of harrowing up our feelings -- it would come soon enough, she said; and to me, who hoped to live so long, it has come _too soon_ -- all too soon; "and the hot tears rained through the transparent fingers, clasped so convulsively over her face.
Dora Deane
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Spade in hand, with his head full of Roman castrametation and geometrical problems, a prince, scarce emerged from boyhood, presents himself on that stage where grizzled Mansfelds, drunken Hohenlos, and truculent Verdugos have been so long enacting, that artless military drama which consists of hard knocks and wholesale massacres.
History of the United Netherlands, 1590-99 — Complete
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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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Phillis," said he, after a long silence, "do you know, it is my opinion that that old creature," pointing with his thumb to Aunt Peggy's house, "is so long used to grumblin 'and fussin', that she can't, to save her life, lie still in her grave.
Aunt Phillis's Cabin Or, Southern Life As It Is
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The law now seems clear, however, that so long as the change is gradual and imperceptible the doctrine applies.
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Both mainsprings are so long that winding them conventionally via the crown would be unfeasible.
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We would ride so far and so long when I was a kid, that I would fall asleep horseback and fall off.
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By the way, nothing cladistically out-of-line with the term reptile, so long as we agree that Reptilia is a clade in which case it includes Aves and excludes Synapsida of which mammals are part.
Around the Web
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They had evaded capture for so long.
Times, Sunday Times
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I am about to lose my mind,You have been gone for so long.
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The moment we have dreaded for so long has arrived.
Times, Sunday Times
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Why did it take so long before the stock exchange finally had the courage to call the proverbial spade a spade?
The Financial Industry Continues to Ignore the Need for Reliable Answers
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Archie had provided a second life for Luther for so long that when Luther cut it off he wasn't able to subsist on what was left.
THE CRASH OF HENNINGTON
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Poor woman -- she don't call anywheres, an 'she stays in mournin' so long folks have kind o 'dropped off goin' to see her.
Friendship Village
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When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.
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Since you have been bingeing and purging for so long, you may have developed medical problems you aren't aware of.
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It seemed to beg the question: why, then, had it taken England so long to return?
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To the protestations of my colleagues in the Labour Party, I say that I have been harping on about this issue for so long, and it has taken as long as this to get it to the House.
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It was the perfect comeback after so long on the sidelines following groin surgery and then a subsequent infection which further hindered his fitness.
The Sun
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It might also have to do with having been the underdog for so long so that women kind of scrabble in these different jobs.
The End Of The Macho Man?
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No, if other things as great in the Church, and in the rule of life both economical and political, be not looked into and reformed, we have looked so long upon the blaze that Zuinglius and Calvin hath beaconed up to us, that we are stark blind.
Areopagitica
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We were companions because we had been together so long and still cared about each other.
Times, Sunday Times
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I could never deny, in looking back upon what followed, that I was eminently stockish; and I must say the ladies were well drilled to have so long a patience with me.
David Balfour, a sequel to Kidnapped.
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She philandered with some of them up to the point where comparisons become inevitable, and, so long as they met her in a spirit of frank camaraderie, it was agreeable enough; but when, with their commonplace minds, they presumed to be sentimental, they became intolerable.
The Beth Book Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius
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Arthur Miller's drama has so long been accorded canonical status that it can easily be taken for granted.
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Chomsky quotes him describing the Vietcong as " a powerful force which cannot be dislodged from its constituency so long as the constituency continues to exist ".
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The reason he had survived so long was he had always studied his own Dow Jones index of fear and dealt in futures.
THE ENDLESS GAME
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While people were here so long ago, it would be wrong to call them our direct ancestors.
Times, Sunday Times
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It seemed odd that after so long it would continue to be sequacious to trust what was experienced in either of the chemically induced realms but then, he asked himself, what choice did it have?
An Apostate: Nawin of Thais
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But to Carlyle people in conversation requires constant practice with a master -- _consuetudine quotidiana cum aliquo congredi_ -- and he had for so long a time knocked everybody down without meeting the least resistance, that victory had palled upon him, and he had, so to speak, "vinegared" on himself.
Memoirs
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(And let it not be objected that the whole may be apprehended through some of the parts only), for manyness which abides in all its substrates together (i.e. in all the many things), is not apprehended so long as only some of those substrates are apprehended.
The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Sankaracarya Sacred Books of the East, Volume 1
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Because he had been head teacher for so long he had obtained the mentality the school was his and he could run it how he liked.
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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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It was a view echoed in Britain not so long ago by those who spoke of the ‘cycle of deprivation’ which afflicted the poor and the working class.
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The roads are all so long, and pockets of tall buildings intersperse themselves with markets and shady alleys, and your planned route may easily be interrupted by a large flyover or highway suddenly obstructing your path.
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It will take so long because the site has a slope and the ground needs to be levelled.
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It is time we do ask - for so long as we persist in seeing the problem as theirs alone, the solution will elude us.
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My feet harbor the calloused soles of one has walked across beds of fire and the wrinkled flesh of one who had, for so long, too long, believed he could walk on water.
Went Sideways
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How could such alleged abuse have taken place on so wide a scale for so long and gone unnoticed by authorities?
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So long as the exploitage of man by man was considered a necessary and eternal institution, there existed no motive to prompt men to subject it to
Freeland A Social Anticipation
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We have received your hails and are willing to accept you and any wounded, so long as you disarm and power down.
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Not so long ago she was pulled up by the Old Bill for a truly revolting placard.
The Sun
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I have no desire to cause pain to a man who has been so long in our employ.
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That is great news... so long as you can get an appointment, of course.
The Sun
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What I didn’t expect was that after so long on this diet, the old animal product foods I used to eat just don’t seem like food anymore, so there’s no feeling of deprivation.
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The Mercury music prize has been running for so long that the corporate sponsor whose name it bears is now defunct.
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If college degrees remain an entree to wealth and status in the 21st century, males may have to get used to the same second-class status that American women so long endured, as highly educated females become the majority among the nation's intellectual, economic, and even power elite.
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Tarkovsky's spirituality is profoundly alien to the west's dualism: it is earthly, earthy, as cool and clear and material as the water his camera spends so long dwelling upon.
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Not so long ago, all six would have been busy at this hour fetching water from distant wells and lugging it back to the small subsistence farms, known as shambas, that dot rural western Kenya.
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He had known for ever so long why at the head of each battery there rode a stalwart bombardier, and why he was called a bombardier; immediately behind this bombardier could be seen the horsemen of the first and then of the middle units.
The Party
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We were companions because we had been together so long and still cared about each other.
Times, Sunday Times
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Of course the objective existence of demons doesn't matter so long as the believer has total faith in them.
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However, so long as such activities are open and transparent, they will be subject to public scrutiny.
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So long as there is a demand for these drugs, the financial incentive for drug dealers will be there.
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The frizzle-headed man-eaters were loath to leave their fleshpots so long as the harvest of human carcases was plentiful.
THE WHALE TOOTH
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Like Johnston, who handled the Palmer account for so long, he is a loyal and aggressive employee.
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She has an high opinion of her sex, to think they can charm so long a man so well acquainted with their identicalness.
Clarissa Harlowe
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She didn't realise she was holding his hand for so long, and that people were beginning to give them curious stares.
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He's been reciting his liturgies for so long, he's more in love with them than with the true sacrament.
SACRAMENT
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As low-cost carriers began to offer $200 airfares, the public became enraged that prices had been so high for so long.
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Yet not so long ago, kale was considered below rabbit food.
Times, Sunday Times
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It is a dream she has lived on so long that it has become part of herself, and it is my impression that if anything happened to break her belief in it she would die, -- yes, _die!
Vagabondia 1884
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The whole room is a zebra pelt of black and white and that colour that has been the fashion staple for so long they've invented a dozen names for it - taupe, camel, fawn, buff.
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I bet it doesn't take your mom so long to make an apple pie.
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So long as the Master has jurisdiction over the matter, as Master Bredmeyer did, he is in the position of a judge.
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He was a man without a conscience, and so long as his own ends and the ends of his friends were served, he would never scruple to empty the woman's girnel or toom her last basin, and leave her no morsel of food or drink at the long-run.
John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn
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The smallness of her universe melted away and she saw herself traveling — through exotic lands she so longed to see, to the coasts of the Mediterranean and the Adriatic seas, to the vast deserts of the African continent, where the lions sprawled among the trees, and elephants tromped the veldt.
Second Chance
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There are few visible signs of the illness that kept her in hospital for so long.
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So long as the President of Argentina doesn't invade the Falklands[Sentence dictionary], they must be odds-on to lose the next election – provided Labour gets this right.
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 I believe it had a basecoat of reddish brown, followed by gesso and sage green, but it was so long ago that that might be wrong.
Kater’s Art » 2009 » May
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Sir W. Foster opposed any attempt to prevent the public from buying cheap food so long as it was wholesome.
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The city has been so underdeveloped for so long that there is plenty of capacity there.
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Even in states that don’t have annual inspections, you can allow drivers to estimate (or cheat) so long as the odometer is verified when it’s resold because the new owner has an incentive for the reading to be correct.
Matthew Yglesias » VMT Madness
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And, indeed, so long as relative age only is spoken of, correspondence in succession _is_ correspondence in age; it is _relative_ contemporaneity.
Lay Sermons, Addresses and Reviews
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You here see that unfortunate divine, who has so long, and it would ill become me to say, successfully fought against the deuterogamy of the age.
The Vicar of Wakefield
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He didn't mind, so long as the piss was absorbed by the fleecy innards of his pants and didn't trickle down his leg, which was infinitely more foul.
Graeme King and the Creature
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Another said, "Be comforted, Yussuf, three days will soon pass away, and then you will relish your kabobs and your rakee, your sweetmeats and your wine, with greater pleasure, having been so long deprived of them.
The Pacha of Many Tales
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_gold_, senor, that is, with the solitary exception of a strong wooden box (which, even after so long an interment, offered considerable resistance to my efforts to open it), containing an assortment of what I took to be pebbles of different kinds, but which I afterwards found were unpolished gems.
For Treasure Bound
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But the scientific quest for quantification is important to those funding it – those filthy rich AI-Guys who have so long dreamed of conscious machines and artificial immortality (uploaded minds).
Continuation…
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He was lucky to have got away with his boorish behaviour towards women for so long.
The Sun
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We forthink that thow hes bene a preachar so long.
The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6)
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In addition, his unhesitating support for the players under him have seen him and his team bounce back always from setbacks, as was of course evident not so long ago in the World Cup.
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He acted, indeed, as if he quite enjoyed it -- though he was careful not to show it too ardently: he had discovered that Mrs. Polly had for so long been Miss Polly that she was inclined to retreat in a panic and dub her ministrations "silly," if they were received with too much notice and eagerness.
Pollyanna Grows Up
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Leading by example, the United States announced a review of its nuclear posture - forswearing the use of nuclear weapons against non-nuclear states, so long as they are in compliance with the Non-Proliferation Treaty.
Jim Luce: Ground-Breaking Speech by Ban Ki-moon on Eve of NPT Review
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Trust is in truth unlikely to be restored for so long as politicians try and prove that one side is more honest and trustworthy than the other.
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If college degrees remain an entree to wealth and status in the 21st century, males may have to get used to the same second-class status that American women so long endured, as highly educated females become the majority among the nation's intellectual, economic, and even power elite.
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After living abroad for so long,(sentence dictionary) he found it difficult to readjust to life at home.
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The cutlassfishes are characterized by a scaleless, band-shaped body tapering to a slim pointed tail, with one dorsal fin extending the whole length of the body; the anal is also long but is very low.
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However, by corollary, the husband had a reciprocal duty to provide a home for the wife to live in with him, so long as she did not commit a matrimonial offence (such as adultery).
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You go on, year after year, congratulating yourself that some piece of domestic equipment is doing well, lasting so long.
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The epilogue catches perfectly the endless withdrawing melancholy of summer evenings in the high north, when pleasure goes on so long it turns into an inexpressible sadness.
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There in the branches, also motionless, also fixed in attention, is a gray-brown squirrel with a tail so long and so absolutely pure pure white it's wonderful.
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He was getting a crick in his neck from leaning out of the window for so long.
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It was unusual for Hal to pause so long.
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Sam Waterston has been doing his high-sniffy rectitudinous grandstanding for so long it's as if he expects some soft of Atticus Finch statue; Elisabeth Rohm is no worse than Angie Harmon, but no better; and Fred Thompson is a pompous pork chop whose cliched Southern homilies wouldn't be listened to seriously for ten seconds in NY (whereas Steven Hill, with his crusty cut-the-crap irritability and desire to get out of the office before bad news could follow, was the authentic article).
New Guy in Town: James Wolcott
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The early schedule isn't impossible to navigate so long as Palmer is a quick study.
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It is a terrible indictment on those in charge that this poor man and his family suffered so much for so long.
The Sun
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Come to think of it, not so long ago even Puccini was trashed by superior people, who considered his contemporaries decadent, shabby frauds beneath contempt.
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I starred at him for so long I had to have left scorch marks.
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The fame of whose name made all men quake and tremble, and who then had commaunded all the troupe of the Gentlemen of his Court, to go and seeke the forlorne louers, so long time lost and vnknowen.
The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1
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Honestly, it had been so long(Sentencedict), I hardly knew her.
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But the fact, that a government, in which the principle was carried to the utmost extreme, not only existed, but existed for so long a period, in great power and splendor, is proof conclusive both of its practicability and its compatibility with the power and permanency of government.
Calhoun's Defense of Poland's Unanimity Rule, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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This would, however, be imperceptible so long as their lengths were not measured by some accurate mechanical time-measurer such as a clepsydra, sandglass, pendulum, or spring clock.
The Astronomy of the Bible An Elementary Commentary on the Astronomical References of Holy Scripture
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An extra arm placed off-centre wouldn't do, you see, but Medusa-style hair of snakes would be fine (so long as it was balanced by a single of similar scale - say, a large beard).
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The boy was always late because it took so long to get dressed.
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All this echoes what St Paul touches on in Romans 8: creation is in some sense frustrated so long as humanity is 'unredeemed'.
Renewing the Face of the Earth: Human Responsibility and the Environment
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But all the warnings served only to stir emotions that had been dormant for so long.
Times, Sunday Times
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Although not highly recommended, you can always wear a plaid pattern shirt with a checkered tie, so long as the patterns aren't identical in size.
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The veteran hardliner has been droning on about her political burnout for years, and has also long had to live with open speculation that her husband is an intelligence agent on the payroll of the French government.
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I know it has been so long since I wrote, and I am so dreadfully sorry.
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It was a star-studded field, and she was resuming after so long off the scene, but she just donkey-licked them.
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Mr. Carter is not a defender of the medium he’s covered for so long; nor an extoller, like some, of its innumerable virtues.
The Boob Tube Respected��� Television Without the Villains
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Of course, touch holes aren't very efficient, but they aren't really that dangerous so long as you watch what you are doing.
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However, Singh has also long been seen as an enfant terrible, an incorrigible roué. There is something gratifying about such an image, and I don't particularly judge him for cultivating it.
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Congratulations to all who worked so hard and so long to bring marriage equality to the empiric state: those who stood vigil in Albany, those who lobbied the halls, those who changed their minds, those who wrote checks, those on whose shoulders this victory stands.
Kate Clinton: New York State of Mind -- Rights Not Rites
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No one can venture more than a hypothetical guess about the effects of living in unshielded space for so long.
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That, and about $2.50 will get you a fair cup of coffee in a greasy spoon restaurant, and nothing more, so long as the GOP thinks "gridlocked" is the only kind of congress in which they care to partake.
Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
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If I leave it a fortnight or so longer, my facial hair goes from stubble to short beard.
Times, Sunday Times
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And thus they went so long till that they came to the Siege Perilous, where they found letters newly written of gold which said: Four hundred winters and four and fifty accomplished after the passion of our Lord Jesu Christ ought this siege to be fulfilled.
Le Morte d'Arthur: Sir Thomas Malory's book of King Arthur and of his noble knights of the Round table
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Nor are dialects subject to judgment, so long as they meet the basic requirement of having clearly defined rules.
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Their "geophone" essentially serves that purpose, though I had to wonder why it took them so long to think about it.
Undefined
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We have spent so long listening to them telling us we are stupid, lazy no-hopers that the majority of my people actually believe it.
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We all believed it unimaginable that he had lived alone on a deserted island for so long.
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Country, preferred from Earl to Duke of _New-Castle_; was a Person equally addicted both to Arms and Arts, which will eternize his Name to all Posterity, so long as Learning, Loyalty, and Valour shall be in
The Lives of the Most Famous English Poets (1687)
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I was frozen/chilled to the bone after waiting so long for the bus.
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I can hold back on splurges when shopping anywhere, but the restrain only lasts so long, and if I'm shopping alone then it lasts hardly at all.
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Mine is a friendship that neither distance nor tune can efface, which is probably the reason that, for the soul of me, I can't avoid thinking yours of the same complexion; and yet I have many reasons for being of a contrary opinion, else why, in so long an absence, was I never made a partner in your concerns?
Oliver Goldsmith
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It is surprising that it has taken people so long to take advantage of what is a win-win opportunity.
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He bought them from a gallery on Robben Island, where Nelson Mandela was for so long imprisoned.
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People are like chameleons: they can adjust themselves to any environment so long as they've no alternative.
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She accepts another's as readily as her own; she is satisfied so long as her back is burdened with a swarming crowd, whether it issue from her ovaries or elsewhence.
The Life of the Spider
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The cones have remained unmoved for so long that they have acted like cloches to force-grow the grass, which is now sprouting out of the open tops.
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However, what strikes me as particularly interesting is that, not so long ago versus populum might simply have been presumed; accordingly, that ad orientem (or "versus crucem" as it is referred to here) is also spoken to perhaps gives some witness to it having begun to enter more into the forefront of Catholic liturgical consciousness again -- perhaps a fruit of the Pope's activities and catecheses.
Restoration of the Cappella Paolina
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having to stand in line so long was a real bummer
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I know it's bad for me, that I should be doing stuff, any stuff just so long as I keep active.
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Even though we are regenerated by the Holy Spirit of God, redeemed by the atoning work of Christ, and adopted as children of our heavenly Father, we still, so long as we draw breath in this world, have the residue of sin within us.
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The fans, fed on a diet of caviar for so long, were spitting feathers.
The Sun
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He clearly enjoys the limelight - so long as it's on his own terms.
Times, Sunday Times
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Like Milano, however, the beautiful people have become what they have so long resisted: nerds whose addiction to Twitter, Facebook and even e-mail rival that of the sweatiest 13-year-old comic book fan.
Celebrities Who Love The iPad
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After driving for so long on the gravel I was glad to get on an even stretch of road.
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I can do this for only so long before I have to examine the microlevel problem of being unwell.
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So long as all labor continues to be performed exclusively or usually by slaves, the baseness of all productive effort is too constantly and deterrently present in the mind of men to allow the instinct of workmanship seriously to take effect in the direction of industrial usefulness; but when the quasi-peaceable stage (with slavery and status) passes into the peaceable stage of industry (with wage labor and cash payment) the instinct comes more effectively into play.
The theory of the leisure class; an economic study of institutions
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Congress could have been much broader here: they could have made the conduct a crime when it occurs anywhere in the U.S. so long as the image travels in interstate commerce.
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So long as those auxin signals move out from the growing tips, few - if any - of the dormant buds on the plant will open up and begin to grow.
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You have not had the habit for so long you can barely remember it.
HABIT BUSTING: A 10-step plan that will change your life
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Mr. Anesko declares May 4 a holiday for James scholars, for it was on that day in 1973 that Edel's trust was busted and the librarian at the Houghton rescinded all "the encumbering regulations that for so long prevented scores of researchers from accessing these desirable resources.
The Afterlife of the Lion
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So long as he does not try to saw the court usher in half.
Times, Sunday Times
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Waxed kitchen matches are good alternatives so long as they're stored in a waterproof container.
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How wild thy look from remaining so long uncleansed!
Orestes
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We've been nannied for so long that we've forgotten how to do anything for ourselves.
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An 'yeh're all right to your owner so long's yeh make good.
Garrison's Finish : a romance of the race course
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She said chokingly, `It's too bad you've had to put up with me so long.
DEATH SPEAKS SOFTLY
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It is contended, rightly, that no particular form of words is required so long as the intention is clear.
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Magistrates, priests, agents, middlemen, tax-gatherers, and tax-payers rush into print to abuse the 'blackguard' -- he is always the blackguard -- who invented the lie; and men upwards of ninety are quoted to show that so long as they could remember, there never was a man injured, nor a rick burned, nor a heifer hamstrung in the six baronies round!
Lord Kilgobbin
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When the inevitable question came at their photocall - why did he take so long?
Times, Sunday Times
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I can't believe I let myself buy into it for so long, but then again, I was living in the East Village paying double the rent I had in Los Angeles (and septuple what I'd paid in Chapel Hill) and I had a good health plan.
4/22/02 I've been thinking a
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Yet for it to have lasted so long is little short of miraculous.
Times, Sunday Times
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Why they stayed there so long is because the Babylonians and later the Persians and the Ottomans made life in that part of the world relatively easy.
