The old woman thanked her when she had done, saying that she had had the words by heart for many a long, long year, but could not see them now.
— from The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens
‘Call to mind how old she looked for many a long, long year, and say if she could be but seventy-nine at last—only our age,’ said the sexton.
— from The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens
“Ah, Ben, you've got a joke again' me as 'll last you your life.
— from Adam Bede by George Eliot
[61] ‘Many a long lingering year, in lonely isle, ‘Stunned with the eternal turbulence of waves, ‘Lo, with dim eyes, that never learned to smile, ‘And trembling hands, the famished native craves ‘Of Heaven his wretched fare: shivering in caves, ‘Or scorched on rocks, he pines from day to day; ‘But Science gives the word; and lo, he braves ‘The surge and tempest, lighted by her ray, ‘And to a happier land wafts merrily away.
— from The Minstrel; or the Progress of Genius with some other poems by James Beattie
I must at least leave you and Sir Timothy in peace to read it.
— from Peter's Mother by De La Pasture, Henry, Mrs.
We shall not recover for many a long, long year.
— from The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page, Volume II by Burton Jesse Hendrick
Sunrise on the prairie, Kitty, makes the Massachusetts article look like your pink lawn when it came back from the wash."
— from Blue Bonnet's Ranch Party by Caroline Elliott Hoogs Jacobs
Poor wreck of time the wave has cast To find a peaceful shore at last, Once glorying in thy gilded name And freighted deep with hopes of fame, Thy leaf is moistened with a tear, The first for many a long, long year.
— from The Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes — Volume 06 Poems from the Breakfast Table Series by Oliver Wendell Holmes
Poor wreck of time the wave has cast To find a peaceful shore at last, Once glorying in thy gilded name And freighted deep with hopes of fame, Thy leaf is moistened with a tear, The first for many a long, long year!
— from Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works by Oliver Wendell Holmes
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