Delay always breeds danger and to protract a great design is often to ruin it. From LearnThat.org. [Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616)]
Nor did she have the audacity to protract her stay. From Wordnik.com. [Hung Lou Meng, Book II Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books] Reference
It is almost better to decide wrong than to protract the contest. From Wordnik.com. [As I Remember Recollections of American Society during the Nineteenth Century] Reference
The guest did not protract his stay that evening above an hour longer. From Wordnik.com. [Wuthering Heights] Reference
Further dissent among the Democrats will undoubtedly protract the debate beyond. From Wordnik.com. [Health Care or Wealth Care: Another Deadline Looms] Reference
This can protract the counting process right into the day certification is required. From Wordnik.com. [Remote Voting--Who's Counting?] Reference
South Africa obviously continues to protract and delay a solution according to the United. From Wordnik.com. [If world decides to abolish Aparthied, Apartheid will disappear] Reference
On the contrary, it would encourage Mexico to persevere and tend to protract it indefinitely. From Wordnik.com. [State of the Union Address (1790-2001)] Reference
The rose-flushed sky looks cool, the air feels cool, one longs to protract the delicious time. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Chersonese and the way thither] Reference
Executive of his constitutional veto; to starve the army; and to protract the session of Congress. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Negro Race in America from 1619 to 1880. Vol. 2 (of 2) Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens] Reference
This appears a strong demand, and one likely to protract the present distracted state of the country. From Wordnik.com. [Disturbed Ireland Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880-81.] Reference
Mrs. Mann fled for a few months, but returned again, and her friends found means to protract the suit. From Wordnik.com. [The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus] Reference
The period of gestation determines the species; protract it, and the species is advanced to a higher class. From Wordnik.com. [An Expository Outline of the "Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation" With a Notice of the Author's "Explanations:" A Sequel to the Vestiges] Reference
Gentile servant, who, instead of being tempted to a brief service, had every inducement to protract the term. From Wordnik.com. [The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 1 of 4] Reference
I had no time to protract my conversation with him then, but resolved to return in a few hours and pray with him. From Wordnik.com. [The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus] Reference
As it is worth no man's while to protract an enmity with such a one as he, he suffers from no prolonged enmities. From Wordnik.com. [Ayala's Angel] Reference
And you want to slow it down, to calm them down, let this thing protract out, and get him to become more rational. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 30, 2007] Reference
"The industry can ill afford disputes which protract the settlement of wage negotiations," Chamber spokesman Mr J A du. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
"My sense is that investors aren't going to hold it against Fidelity as long as the weakness doesn't protract," he said. From Wordnik.com. [Fidelity Stumbles in Bid to Regain Footing] Reference
'I do,' replied the Doctor, in a determined manner -- 'and my only regret is that I cannot protract his sufferings a year. From Wordnik.com. [City Crimes or Life in New York and Boston] Reference
Despite Ickes misgivings-it looks they hav ended the FL/MI and also ended a major excuse for Hillary to protract thr race. From Wordnik.com. [Obama Rolls Out Second Super-Del Of The Day] Reference
At the same time, I did not disguise my conviction that the best we could hope for was to protract the struggle until spring. From Wordnik.com. [Destruction and Reconstruction: Personal Experiences of the Late War] Reference
Whatever "compromise" serves merely to protract such horrors is finally nothing but abetment, however well-intended it may be. From Wordnik.com. [Mark Crispin Miller: Let's Get Off The Paper Trail] Reference
Is that worthy your very evident intelligence, monsieur, since you can protract the game only the matter of a few hours at most?. From Wordnik.com. [Montlivet] Reference
With all your policy and sagacious selfishness, you found it difficult to protract your own official existence a few months longer. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 328, February, 1843] Reference
The two Staff-officers make plans and sketches of the new places, or they protract their field-books, working very hard and very slowly. From Wordnik.com. [The Land of Midian] Reference
I wish to issue a warning, however, that the Government is alert to strategies designed to protract and delay negotiations unnecessarily. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
He said reopening the trial would merely protract an already unduly long trial and would cause judgment to be delayed for several months. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
Napoleon referred him to Minister Champagny, who, by all sorts of subterfuges, managed to protract and finally to break off the negotiations. From Wordnik.com. [Napoleon and the Queen of Prussia] Reference
Senator are very clear and radical, but it is feared that delay in the settlement of the question will only protract and aggravate the difficulty. From Wordnik.com. [The American Missionary — Volume 49, No. 4, April, 1895] Reference
The rack is now preparing to receive thee; and every art of ingenious cruelty will be exhausted to protract and to increase the agonies of death. '. From Wordnik.com. [Almoran and Hamet] Reference
Nor did she feel justified to protract her stay, so after sipping her tea, she intimated to Pao-ch'ai her intention to go, and they quitted the apartment. From Wordnik.com. [Hung Lou Meng, Book II Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books] Reference
De Quincey; and, understanding this, Professor Wilson used to protract his dinners almost into the morning, a tribute which De Quincey doubtless appreciated. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 71, September, 1863] Reference
They protract the time as long as possible, well knowing that even with all the little ills attending it, a period thus employed is one of the sweetest of human life. From Wordnik.com. [Sketches of the Fair Sex, in All Parts of the World] Reference
A more effectual means could not have been devised to encourage the enemy and protract the war than to advocate and adhere to their cause, and thus give them "aid and comfort.". From Wordnik.com. [State of the Union Address (1790-2001)] Reference
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