Adjective : a lasting friendship.    From Dictionary.com. 

Further to the notion of giving account of ourselves, of indexing as David Altjmed's recent show undertakes, Carreiro examines the idea of impermanence, the delicacy and to use a Lisa Robertson term "lastingness" of text, and literally of letters themselves.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-12-01] Reference

Real love, he asks; not the degraded things to which men give that great name, as to every passing gust of feeling, to every unworthy untamed emotion: but the divine quality, when to the "lastingness," which he requires, is also joined that which is the inner essence of Love, viz., sacrifice.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Form of Perfect Living and Other Prose Treatises] Reference

Perhaps our feelings obey the laws of nature as to the lastingness of her creations; to a long life a long childhood.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ursula] Reference

When the work was finally to be taken up, it was to be upon a solid foundation which should last with the lastingness of education.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Deaf Their Position in Society and the Provision for Their Education in the United States] Reference

Item: To lovers I devise their imaginary world, with whatever they may need, as the stars of the sky, the red, red roses by the wall, the snow of the hawthorn, the sweet strains of music, or aught else they may desire to figure to each other the lastingness and beauty of their love.    From Wordnik.com.  [Williston Fish (1858-1939)] Reference

(Love is yearning between two, with lastingness of thoughts.).    From Wordnik.com.  [The Form of Perfect Living and Other Prose Treatises] Reference

His work has one message and one only, the lastingness of beauty and its supreme truth.    From Wordnik.com.  [English Literature: Modern Home University Library of Modern Knowledge] Reference

The shine and long lastingness of it was to die for so I could deal with the stickiness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Pink Shoe Diaries] Reference

For five cents I could buy five "cannon-balls" -- big lumps of the most delicious lastingness.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Barleycorn] Reference

The sense of lastingness was gone from her and every moment with Harney would now be ringed with doubt.    From Wordnik.com.  [Summer] Reference

To its own best being and its loveliness of youth: it is an ever - lastingness of, O it is an all youth!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins Now First Published] Reference

The lastingness of the damage to the people will, to a considerable extent, be determined by the people.    From Wordnik.com.  [Energy Bulletin -] Reference

Pardon my gossipry, ah! kindest of Editors! while I ask if you believe in the lastingness of primary impressions?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, April 1844 Volume 23, Number 4] Reference

Lord Elgin's marbles upon the lastingness of some things, or, in the mummy room, upon the awful brevity of others.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alexander's Bridge] Reference

Since most timbers are not resistant to adverse weather conditions and insects, utmost care should be taken to stretch their lastingness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions] Reference

They seem rather the productions of nature than of man, and have the lastingness of such, delighting our age with the same startle of newness and beauty that pleased our youth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Among My Books Second Series] Reference

Thought, working WITHIN this Principle, creates the things of beauty and lastingness, -- Thought, working OUTSIDE this Principle, equally creates the things of terror, doubt, confusion, and destruction.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life Everlasting; a reality of romance] Reference

The distinctness with which we can picture the successive scenes of his not extraordinary journey and the lastingness of the impressions left on us are the best testimony to his quality as a master of English prose.    From Wordnik.com.  [Biographical Note] Reference

He stood against a background where the Creator had opened out the universe; a spiritual influence went out from him; his sufferings were adopted as an example, and his transfiguration was the pledge of ever-lastingness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 02 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes] Reference

Such agents do reach in time a divine serenity which nothing surprises or confounds; just as in love we come to the divine quietude of that emotion, sure of its strength, sure of its lastingness, through our constant experience of its pains and sweetnesses.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Brotherhood of Consolation] Reference

I think myself that the very lastingness and strength of animosity have their origin sometimes in the reality of affection: the love lasts all the while, freshly indignant at every new load heaped upon it; till, at last, a word, a look, a sorrow, a gladness, sets it free; and, forgetting all its claims, it rushes irresistibly towards its ends.    From Wordnik.com.  [Annals of a Quiet Neighbourhood] Reference

Long after the very latest roses were faded, when "the town" had departed to country villas, or the baths, or the war, he remained behind in Rome; anxious to try the lastingness of his own Epicurean rose-garden; setting to work over again, and deliberately passing from point to point of his old argument with himself, down to its practical conclusions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marius the Epicurean — Volume 2] Reference

For happiness, for lastingness, for light.    From Wordnik.com.  [Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith] Reference

"Everlastingness?" queried Mr. Harland -- "Or simply life lastingness?".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life Everlasting; a reality of romance] Reference

Massive historical documents and material, and the accounts of several western adventurers, scholars, and journalists who visited old Tibet, testify to the historicity of the existence, right up to 1959, of a system of medieval feudal serfdom that, in its rapacity, cruelty, theocratic absolutism, and long-lastingness, had no parallel in modern times, the editorial said.    From Wordnik.com.  [Top Stories - Google News] Reference