"Lengthily" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... They lengthily argued the question, whether they should immediately decree the accusation of the President, or whether they should draw up a simple order of inquiry. The latter course ...
— The History of a Crime - The Testimony of an Eye-Witness • Victor Hugo
... critics not very profound. It was an operation of some minutes to get exactly opposite, and when side by side the three stood there they overheard the immediate reason of the pressure. 'Farewell, thou art too dear for my possessing' had been lengthily discoursed upon that morning by the Coryphaeus of popular opinion; and the spirit having once been poured out sons and daughters could prophesy. But, in truth, Ladywell's work, if not emphatically original, ...
— The Hand of Ethelberta • Thomas Hardy |
