He capered like a dog enjoying a long-promised walk.    From Wordnik.com.  [Renegade's Magic]

In 1765 appeared his long-promised edition of Shakspere.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of English Literature] Reference

So, what will this long-promised broadband future look like?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cable's A-Team] Reference

The long-promised dog is a gift for daughters Malia and Sasha.    From Wordnik.com.  [¿Cerrar Guantánamo? Mañana.] Reference

Eventually the XO may even reach that long-promised price point.    From Wordnik.com.  [Give One, Get One] Reference

The great bombardment has begun, the long-promised strafing of the.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Student in Arms Second Series] Reference

Miss Gwynne was to follow shortly, for her long-promised Christmas visit.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gladys, the Reaper] Reference

He also said his father was committed to long-promised, but still unscheduled elections.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

The good news was published abroad that the long-promised King of the seed of David was come.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Kingdom of Heaven; What is it?] Reference

Philip St. Leger has finished his course at Princeton, and come to take away his long-promised bride.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hubert's Wife A Story for You] Reference

Together, these new iPhone offerings promise a formidable challenge to the long-promised Garmin Nuvi Phone. —.    From Wordnik.com.  [Navigon MobileNavigator turns iPhone 3G into a car navigation device] Reference

After waiting for the long-promised FEMA rescue, they've realized that they must take rescue into their own hands.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stacy Parker Aab: Introducing the Katrina Experience: An Oral History Project] Reference

Well, this year we are finally seeing long-promised broadband digital services becoming commercially available, and.    From Wordnik.com.  [From Hype To Reality In The Emerging Digital Age: Remarks Before The Wall Street Journal Technology Summit] Reference

As soon as Max learned of this delightful fact he knew the time had come for their long-promised visit to Trapper Jim.    From Wordnik.com.  [With Trapper Jim in the North Woods] Reference

Increasingly unpopular after two decades in power, Mugabe has vowed to push through long-promised land redistribution.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

We did our best to keep from getting killed and waited eagerly for the long-promised but repeatedly-delayed field shower.    From Wordnik.com.  [Haim Watzman: Beirut Nostalgia] Reference

The U.N. police trainees were to have taken over security after the long-promised and postponed rebel pullout from Kisangani.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

If approved by Chinese regulators, the banks 'proposed ventures could be the first to take advantage of a long-promised opening.    From Wordnik.com.  [Credit Suisse Aims to Create China Venture] Reference

Kingdom, and that we belong to it as His subjects, and share in the salvation which He, the long-promised Messiah, came to bring.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Kingdom of Heaven; What is it?] Reference

It's R. E.M.'s long-promised return to rock, and for the first time in ages they sound like a band again, fully awake and engaged.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tony Sachs: If R.E.M. Makes A Comeback Album And Nobody Hears It, Does It Still Rock?] Reference

When the initial volume of his long-promised Archives landed on my desk in the form of 10 Blu-ray discs, my first thought was "Wow.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Neil’s Blu-Plate Special] Reference

Peacekeeping missions in other African countries such as Somalia, where only Uganda has so far contributed troops to a long-promised.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

It's the kind of diversity long-promised -- yet woefully lacking -- within the larger, self-appointed leadership of the LGBT bourgeoisie.    From Wordnik.com.  [David Kaufman: Saturday Night Special: Houston's Great Gay Moment] Reference

Taylor declared that history would judge him kindly, speaking at his long-promised resignation ceremony in Liberia's war-blasted capital.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

Last week's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas was all about crowing that the long-promised "digital convergence" was finally underway.    From Wordnik.com.  [Technology: The Week of the Gizmos] Reference

CLANCY: After months of preparation and lot of talk, the U.S. military says a long-promised security crackdown in Baghdad is now under way.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Feb 7, 2007] Reference

President Obama has been dogged, I guess you could say, by reporters for months about when, when, when are you getting your girls that long-promised puppy?.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Apr 13, 2009] Reference

As early as this week, President Clinton might unveil his long-promised plan to scale back emissions of these greenhouse gases to 1990 levels by the year 2000.    From Wordnik.com.  [Is The Ozone Hole In Our Heads?] Reference

London this spring to see the most wonderful of sights; try and persuade my dear sister, that kind Mamma of yours, to let you pay your long-promised visit to me.    From Wordnik.com.  [Comical People] Reference

Yesterday Bob Green took Graham for a long-promised outing to the Caves, a spot in the mountain just above Big Beach and about a third of the way up to the Base.    From Wordnik.com.  [Three Years in Tristan da Cunha] Reference

Last week the prime minister said the long-promised probe must wait till British troops come home, arguing that to hold it before then would undermine their mission.    From Wordnik.com.  [Iraq Fallout: He’d Rather Not Inquire] Reference

Then Major Dale, and Dorothy's brothers, Joe and Roger, were to take a long-promised cruise on the St. Lawrence, so that Dorothy was quite at liberty to plan for herself.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dorothy Dale's Camping Days] Reference

The other was from Scylla's father, saying that if it would be convenient he would bring his little daughter out to the ranch in a few days for a long-promised visit to Martha.    From Wordnik.com.  [Southern Stories Retold from St. Nicholas] Reference

In the morning the fog lifted, a bright sun shone from a cloudless sky, the marshes sparkled with pools of melted snow and the long-promised thaw seemed definitely to have set in.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Inn at the Red Oak] Reference