Word: long
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...journey to the brook was a modern Anabasis, - ???, - "just three miles" did that brook keep ahead of me throughout the fifteen I walked. I learned this from passing countrymen, and argument and expostulation failed to shorten the distance one yard. "Just three miles" is the only unit of long measure used in New Hampshire...
...Professor of Chinese. That dignitary was found at his house, in the bosom of his family; and upon learning the object of the reporter's visit, was very cordial in his tone and manners. He awoke his interpreter, who was just finishing a delightful opium reverie, and opened a long and interesting conversation, of which the following is a summary...
...meeting at Mott Haven next year, as we still have left men who, good as they are at their respective distances, can yet materially improve their records by being even only moderately faithful to their work during the next three months. From a conversation with a well-known long-distance runner, who has competed on most of the tracks in the United States, we learned that the track on Jarvis is second to none. Now with such a track, and with the services of one of the best trainers in England, we surely ought to be able to increase considerably...
...fair Verona, long...
...that music echo long...