"So long" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... answered. "I thought that we ought to give our guardian a surprise when she comes. She hasn't been here for so long, and we ought to make ...
— Lucile Triumphant • Elizabeth M. Duffield
... tattoo as loud as that in the soldiers' quarters, as we sped across the black space which had baffled us so long, and not another sound did we hear save the splashing ...
— Carette of Sark • John Oxenham
... mirth at the expense of the victim, male or female. They would have thought little the worse of a man for running off with the wife, say, of one of his acquaintance; they would have thought nothing of his running off with a sister or a daughter—so long as it was not of their own. All these were fair game, and if the husband, father or brother could not protect the wife, sister or daughter that was his, the more shame to him. But though they might be fair ...
— The Lion's Skin • Rafael Sabatini
... within the last fifteen years that any attempt has been made to systematize and regulate the game." The italics are inserted to call attention to the fact that in the memory of the men of that day base-ball had been played a long time prior to 1845, so long that the fifteen years of systematized play was referred to ...
— Base-Ball - How to Become a Player • John M. Ward
... bids me remember that I am not yet twenty. He says that there are stranger things buried beneath the dust of Egypt than all the learned societies have succeeded in revealing. He is quite content that the cruise of the Aphrodite should be a wild-goose chase so long as the evidence of the papyrus is proved to be false. And that is my chief stumbling-block. Perhaps you do not realize that, to an antiquarian, the search yields as keen pleasure as the find. The cost of this expedition ...
— The Wheel O' Fortune • Louis Tracy
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