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Livelong

noun
1.
Perennial northern temperate plant with toothed leaves and heads of small purplish-white flowers.  Synonyms: live-forever, orpin, orpine, Sedum telephium.
adjective
1.
(of time) constituting the full extent or duration.





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... were fast asleep in their respective beds, poor Netta sat and cried the livelong night, with her feet upon the fender, and her eyes fixed upon ...
— Gladys, the Reaper • Anne Beale
... strength which was opposed to it, therefore, the Kanawha division had carried the summit, advancing to the charge for the most part over open ground in the storm of musketry and artillery fire, and held the crests they had gained through the livelong day, in spite of ...
— Military Reminiscences of the Civil War V1 • Jacob Dolson Cox
... lured his unsuspecting mother into telling how they would be holding Hogmanay in Thrums to-night, how cartloads of kebbock cheeses had been rolling into the town all the livelong day ("Do you hear them, Elspeth?"), and in dark closes the children were already gathering, with smeared faces and in eccentric dress, to sally forth as guisers at the clap of eight, when the ringing of ...
— Sentimental Tommy - The Story of His Boyhood • J. M. Barrie
... eventide, he saw the tender bud of to-morrow's breakfast. It was a very pleasant life, indeed. No labor to be done, no tasks to be studied; nothing but sports and dances, and sweet voices of children talking, or caroling like birds, or gushing out in merry laughter, throughout the livelong day. ...
— Children's Literature - A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes • Charles Madison Curry
... livelong day, and we had not refrained us then, But Zeus sent a hurricane, stilling the storm of ...
— The Fall of Troy • Smyrnaeus Quintus


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