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and it lasted long enough to

In a word, he kept the peace, and it lasted long enough to give the United States the breathing space they so much needed at the beginning of their history.
— from George Washington, Volume II by Henry Cabot Lodge

and in later life experienced the

Krafft-Ebing records various cases of masochism in which the emission of urine on to the body or into the mouth formed the climax of sexual gratification, as, for instance ( Psychopathia Sexualis , English translation, p. 183) in the case of a Russian official who as a boy had fancies of being bound between the thighs of a woman, compelled to sleep beneath her nates and to drink her urine, and in later life experienced the greatest excitement when practicing the last part of this early imagination.
— from Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 5 Erotic Symbolism; The Mechanism of Detumescence; The Psychic State in Pregnancy by Havelock Ellis

an inch long limb eight to

—Salver-shaped; rose-pink, lilac, or white, with a yellow or dark throat; its tube filiform, about an inch long; limb eight to ten lines across.
— from The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits by Mary Elizabeth Parsons

an interested listener long enough to

In the heat of their discussion, neither the minister nor Isadore had noticed his entrance, but he had been standing there, an interested listener, long enough to learn the sad fact of his sister's perversion.
— from Elsie's children by Martha Finley

and I love lollipops explained the

“But I hate to walk and I love lollipops,” explained the shameless Rosa.
— from Nancy Brandon's Mystery by Lilian Garis

an interval lasted long enough to

The sky was made unearthly by the flashes of lightning, whose blinding leaps seemed to bring the blackness down like a wall upon the eyes, and if ever an interval lasted long enough to suffer the light to resume its powers, then you found that blackness horrible with the unspeakable shade it took from the plain of boiling froth that stretched like a world covered with snow to the sea-girdle, fading from startling, staring, glaring whiteness around us into a pallid, ghastly dimness, where it sank and melted into the levin-riven inky folds.
— from The Death Ship: A Strange Story, Vol. 3 (of 3) by William Clark Russell

administration in Lithuania listened eagerly to

The heads of the Russian administration in Lithuania listened eagerly to the sinister revelations of the new Pfefferkorn.
— from History of the Jews in Russia and Poland, Volume 2 [of 3] From the Death of Alexander I until the Death of Alexander III (1825-1894) by Simon Dubnow

and its large lowered eyelids that

The body is tapering, the breasts are two upturned cups; the face, of a pure oval, has great charm, with its very red mouth, and its large lowered eyelids that hide from me beautiful eyes of a glaucous and changeful blue.
— from A Night in the Luxembourg by Remy de Gourmont

And I liked Lady Eastlake too

And I liked Lady Eastlake too in another way, the 'lady' of the 'Letters from the Baltic,' nay, I liked her better than the 'lady'....
— from The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Volume 2 of 2) by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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