As the term lengthened the girls were pushed harder and harder by the instructors, and Bess and others like her complained a good deal.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nan Sherwood at Rose Ranch] Reference

The call lengthened into a visit, and as the Baroness finally rose to go, Joy said.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Ambitious Man] Reference

If the appropriation were so given the University would be destroyed and the public school term lengthened a day and a half.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of the University of North Carolina. Volume II: From 1868 to 1912] Reference

The sword lengthened his arm; the spear extended it still further.    From Wordnik.com.  [The HurricaneStory]

Han! "its melancholy call lengthened out by the surrounding echoes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Madame Chrysantheme] Reference

"I am also suggesting that the Central Board be increased from four members to five and their terms lengthened from eight to ten years.    From Wordnik.com.  [WHAT REALLY HAPPENED] Reference

"Ah!" she replied, with a lengthened, meaning utterance, expressing sympathy with what I said; "I know what you mean.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Portent & Other Stories] Reference

As the police stood back, waiting, the shadows lengthened.    From Wordnik.com.  [He Could Run... ...But He Couldn't Hide] Reference

The ears and the tail have been lengthened in spite of disuse.    From Wordnik.com.  [Are the Effects of Use and Disuse Inherited? An Examination of the View Held by Spencer and Darwin] Reference

Is there not one by Cowley, -- if I remember, much lengthened?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847] Reference

As our practice runs lengthened, though, another problem arose.    From Wordnik.com.  [How I Set (and Temporarily Lost) a World Record] Reference

In his days the sun wen backward, and he lengthened the king's life.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 26: Ecclesiasticus The Challoner Revision] Reference

The list may easily be bettered, and may be indefinitely lengthened.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Handbook of Ethical Theory] Reference

A somewhat lengthened residence in the northern provinces of Persia, where.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847] Reference

Average time on the market lengthened to 52 days, up 8.3 percent from July.    From Wordnik.com.  [Washington area housing market expected to heat up in fall, but buyers are wary] Reference

Strong demand has lengthened delivery times and caused scattered scarcities.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Market Twitches] Reference

Thus, if the molar teeth lengthened from extra use the incisors could not meet.    From Wordnik.com.  [Are the Effects of Use and Disuse Inherited? An Examination of the View Held by Spencer and Darwin] Reference

By the westerly route you go with the sun, which causes each day to be lengthened.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life and sport in China Second Edition] Reference

Ten minutes can be lengthened in many ways, all of which were at work that afternoon.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hangman] Reference

As our relationship lengthened and deepened, we weathered the vicissitudes of the skies.    From Wordnik.com.  [A River Runs Through Me] Reference

Put a third-row seat in a lengthened Escape and Ford has a competitive crossover SUV. "".    From Wordnik.com.  [From the logbook: Ford Escape] Reference

But at least one drug, AZT, has lengthened the lives of many people who are HIV positive.    From Wordnik.com.  [In Florence, A Meeting Of Mysteries] Reference

In North America, warmer air temperatures lengthened the growing season for tundra shrubs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Periscope] Reference

So as the days passed and his excursions lengthened, I would end up looking far into the tree.    From Wordnik.com.  [When Nature is Nurture] Reference

A wan mother stood near the nurse, every line of her face showing the pain of lengthened anxiety.    From Wordnik.com.  [Our Nervous Friends — Illustrating the Mastery of Nervousness] Reference

Tongue scraped, muscle lengthened, torso drained and lubed; back straightened, head hand-tightened.    From Wordnik.com.  [Forever] Reference

He has delighted the business sector with new laws that lengthened the workday and slashed pensions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Periscope] Reference

Weeks lengthened into months, and the waiting woman began to feel anxious as to the well-being of her lord.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life and sport in China Second Edition] Reference

The pauses between his actions lengthened until, finally, with an unopened seed in his beak, he went to sleep.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wild Birds In Winter] Reference

Were the widow's life to be lengthened out into eternity itself, she never might forget that look of her lost child.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 385. November, 1847.] Reference

The French lengthened the course near the finish, knowing just-out-of-the-gate machismo would grind out some crashes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ann Reynolds: Tour de Crash] Reference

Even when she was far away, she still felt that she was dragging a chain which lengthened out endlessly without breaking.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bill-Toppers] Reference

He lengthened out his speech in the same tone and spirit, and spoke seriously for some time, till at length he succeeded in quieting.    From Wordnik.com.  [Eastern Tales by Many Story Tellers] Reference

Under the measure, the regular season would be lengthened from 16 to 18 games per team, and the preseason shortened from four games to two.    From Wordnik.com.  [Owners might vote this month on 18-game season] Reference

Her progress inevitably slowing as the free cord she worked lengthened; nearly every bulb catching as she passed it through another tangle.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Christmas Spaghetti] Reference