How To Use Lengthened In A Sentence
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See how the legs lengthened and jointed themselves, bending beneath the throne as though to leap upward.
A PLAGUE OF ANGELS
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He must have been very drunk, for at last the heavy sleep gripped him with the suddenness of a magic spell, and the last word lengthened itself into an interminable, noisy, in-drawn snore.
Youth And Two Other Stories
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The roundaboutness of the entire production structure is lengthened.
Mises Dailies
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Digital modification stands in for genetic, and so the animals are lengthened, spiralled or moved across the picture plane as if a magnetic force - an exterior one - operated.
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The call lengthened into a visit, and as the Baroness finally rose to go, Joy said:
An Ambitious Man
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-- If the appropriation were so given the University would be destroyed and the public school term lengthened a day and a half.
History of the University of North Carolina. Volume II: From 1868 to 1912
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Rather, my instinct is telling me that the "ablautless" forms are coloured by uvulars, hence *-a-, and that ablauting forms stem from a lengthened Narten present, *ɢēb- or *gʰēbʰ- in traditional notation, since it's already been established by other IEists that long vowels are not affected by laryngeal colouring and thus, by extension, they wouldn't be affected by uvular colouring.
PIE *kap- and *ghabh-
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I believe that the need for saving has grown tremendously over the past century, primarily because the lifespan has lengthened and more medical care for the elderly is available and desired.
Forced Savings vs. Social Security, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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The diphthongs ayyy and eeee turn up again and again, long vowels lengthened by slow consonants around them.
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- Severly decreased the cost of building cags, but lengthened the time to be similar to carrier builds.
4Players.de News
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The shadows lengthened with the approach of sunset.
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The period of costly childhood dependency was further lengthened by the introduction of compulsory education from 1880.
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He found Tigress sitting in the outer room. She glanced at him and her face lengthened.
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It finally died as the shadows lengthened.
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In the city centre, people chopped at hedges for firewood as power cuts lengthened.
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As Warren relayed, the homeowner was sophisticated enough to recognize that his interest rate would be doubled and his term lengthened so that he would in fact lose his home sooner and the lender would own his valuable property.
Veterans Today
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His lamentation is lengthened and restlessness is strengthened and he is as he were
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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And the appeal deadline period should be lengthened from 28 days to three months.
The Sun
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See how the legs lengthened and jointed themselves, bending beneath the throne as though to leap upward.
A PLAGUE OF ANGELS
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And, in fact, since the early 1990s interest rates have fallen and loan maturities have lengthened on average.
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However, unlengthened schwa moves frontward and merges with pre-existing *e, not *a.
Nominative Lengthening and a reinterpretation of Szemerenyi's Law
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The runways were lengthened and tarpaper shacks and other buildings were built in a matter of a few months.
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The period of costly childhood dependency was further lengthened by the introduction of compulsory education from 1880.
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Chariots and horsemen, men and maidens, the grim visages of age and the dusky beauty of youth, in lengthened procession, with palms, and music, and benediction, in behalf of that early world paid the last tribute to a great and just benefactor, to a builder
Abraham Lincoln: The Just Magistrate, the Representative Statesman, the Practical Philanthropist
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Her visit had been lengthened beyond the term allowed; now she must obey the summons without further delay.
Lady Rosamond's Secret A Romance of Fredericton
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The unemployment queues lengthened and the howls from main street were deafening.
Times, Sunday Times
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The wavelengths of the radio waves emitted by the pulsar are lengthened as a result of the effects of the gravitational field of the companion star (gravitational redshift).
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It places more or less equal stress on all syllables, usually with the final syllable of a tone unit somewhat lengthened.
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However, the antecedent of sigmatic aorists ie. those verbs marked in *-s- with lengthened root vowel which originally expressed a past experience were by definition eventive as well.
Archive 2009-09-01
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In addition, the timing of an ultradian rhythm, the defecation cycle, is lengthened compared to wild type.
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The IRS would then move to close these loopholes, a process that will take years, the number of years lengthened, of course, by even beadier-eyed (but better dressed) attorneys who will use every legal dodge in their legal dodge bag of tricks in order to save their rich clients 'untaxed wealth so as to mightily increase their own.
The Moderate Voice
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The lawmakers elected for the Seventh Legislature will enter office in 2008, and the lawmakers' tenures beginning with the Seventh Legislature would be lengthened from three to four years.
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Then, as the candles burnt and the shadows lengthened, we started to think about it properly.
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He shortened its legs so that it could burrow after rabbits and lengthened them so that it could overhaul the antelope.
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Long words should be shortened (totes, obv, ridic, tuck, defo) and short words should be lengthened (faberoonie, drinkies, chaterama).
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Tightened security on domestic flights has lengthened the turnaround time for aircraft.
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Beside him strode his shadow, and lengthened as the sun westered in a haze of potable gold.
Brother Copas
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I lengthened my stride and it did the trick.
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The unions stepped up their industrial action and the waiting lists lengthened further.
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The odds against their survival have lengthened.
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The assailant was wearing a hooded cloak and the setting sun had lengthened the shadow covering his face.
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I lengthened my stride and it did the trick.
Times, Sunday Times
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Marion A. Wright, Council president in 1952 wrote "SRC is the lengthened shadow of many men and women.
Using our Past to Build the Future
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During and after tapping, the furnace is 'turned around': the slag door is cleaned of solidified slag, repairs may take place, and electrodes are inspected for damage or lengthened through the addition of new segments; the taphole is filled with sand at the completion of tapping.
Electric Arc Furnace (EAF)
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Barrels have ventilated ribs, hard-chromed bores, interchangeable choke tubes (three provided) and lengthened forcing cones to reduce recoil.
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Raglan's face lengthened, and I saw an almost pettish set to his mouth as he said:
The Sky Writer
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It moves in lengthened elegiac measure like a song of lamentation for the dead, and is full of lofty scorn" [Herder].
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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And the appeal deadline period should be lengthened from 28 days to three months.
The Sun
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This cornemuse had but one drone which could, like the others, be lengthened for tuning by drawing out the joint; the reed was not a beating-reed but a double reed like that of the chaunter; this constitutes the main difference between the two cornemuses.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"
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This case was not lengthened or complicated by the allegations of fraudulent misrepresentation.
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Wage premiums are to be axed and working hours lengthened.
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Second, the Deficit Reduction Act of 1984 lengthened the recovery period for realty from 15 to 18 years.
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In nature, a chromosome can be lengthened by the enzyme telomerase, which adds new TTAGGG sequences to the end of the telomere.
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Varicose veins are tortuous, twisted, or lengthened veins.
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The stamens have ripened and been pushed off by the lengthened pistil, which is brushed by the back of the bee, and thus is pollinated.
The First Book of Farming
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She leaned forward and Hope immediately lengthened her strides and stretched forward.
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As the shadows lengthened, so did the chances of a winner for either side.
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As the shadows lengthened, so did the chances of a winner for either side.
Times, Sunday Times
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His strides lengthened and he picked up his pace, as if eager to reach our destination.
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These bands are shorter than the other coats of the intestine, and serve to produce the sacculi which are characteristic of the cecum and colon; accordingly, when they are dissected off, the tube can be lengthened, and its sacculated character disappears.
XI. Splanchnology. 2h. The Large Intestine
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They lengthened the course by adding some tees and added subtle mounding to the fairways to modernize the course so it wouldn't appear so flat.
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And the appeal deadline period should be lengthened from 28 days to three months.
The Sun
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We lengthened the forestay by another 2 or 3 turns and in a few minutes we were sailing again.
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-- Sinners even of the worst description are to be admonished even though there may be little hope of amendment, and hence those striking miracles that carried so clear and conclusive demonstration of the being and character of the true God were performed in lengthened series before Pharaoh to leave him without excuse when judgment should be finally executed.
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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The days lengthened as summer approached.
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This lengthened the odds against chance to a degree where they could be safely ignored.
Dictionary of Mind, Body and Spirit
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I've been thinking lately of moraicity and glottal stops, myself, because if we know that glottal stops, by their nature, are incapable of bearing morae, then they shouldn't be able to lend the second mora in the lengthened vowels that they are expected to produce... unless... the glottal stop has already eroded to something more vowel-like!
Against the *dkmtóm camp
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My stride lengthened and I regulated my breathing as my track coach had taught me.
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As in the transliteration of Sanskrit, the macron over the letter indicates that the sound of the vowel is lengthened, thus kan is pronounced ‘koh-an’, with the emphasis on the first syllable.
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His hair, a soft ginger-brown color, was short and shaggy from his brow and over the crown of his head, but lengthened a sizable amount in the back, where it was tied off.
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A fairly gentle opening hole that has been lengthened for the Ryder Cup.
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With the aid of a system of tangents of which I first showed him the rule and the method of construction, my artist has obtained the ordinary cycloid, followed by the interior and the exterior epicycloid and, lastly, the same curves both lengthened and shortened.
The Life of the fly; with which are interspersed some chapters of autobiography
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The front of the throat has lengthened, freeing the larynx to grow larger and more mobile.
The Runaway Brain: the Evolution of Human Uniqueness
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In a way this year has gone so quickly, but our apartness has lengthened it so much.
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Long words should be shortened (totes, obv, ridic, tuck, defo) and short words should be lengthened (faberoonie, drinkies, chaterama).
Times, Sunday Times
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The shadows lengthened as the sun went down.
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The unemployment queues lengthened and the howls from main street were deafening.
Times, Sunday Times
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As the term lengthened the girls were pushed harder and harder by the instructors, and Bess and others like her complained a good deal.
Nan Sherwood at Rose Ranch
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As humans lengthened lifespans with better nutrition and hunting skills, childhood also lengthened.
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Slowly, his strides lengthened without his pace getting quicker.
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This lengthened the odds against chance to a degree where they could be safely ignored.
Dictionary of Mind, Body and Spirit
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Our phone numbers will be lengthened to seven digits when we add the new prefix 64.
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He shortened its legs so that it could burrow after rabbits and lengthened them so that it could overhaul the antelope.
Times, Sunday Times
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Its form was what we may call a lengthened oval, tapering off at the head and tail, which were under the water, only part of the scaly back being exposed to the air.
The Wizard of the Sea A Trip Under the Ocean
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A fairly gentle opening hole that has been lengthened for the Ryder Cup.
Times, Sunday Times
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“And, therefore,” as he concluded something abruptly, addressing Jeanie and Butler, who, with faces as high-coloured as crimson, had been listening to his lengthened argument for and against the holy state of matrimony, “I will leave you to your ain cracks.”
The Heart of Mid-Lothian
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Such advances have lengthened servicing intervals in many cases to two years or up to 19,000 miles on ordinary runabouts.
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To correct brachycephaly both fused sutures are removed and the skull is narrowed and lengthened.
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It finally died as the shadows lengthened.
Times, Sunday Times
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And as the shadows lengthened and the light drained from the sky, the crystal began to glow.
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Frequently there are a number of iterations, and the development cycle is lengthened and deadlines missed.
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Her photo had been so airbrushed, with two ribs removed and legs lengthened, she didn't recognise herself.
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Half an hour had already passed, and the shadows lengthened as the sun sunk into the horizon.
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The sword lengthened his arm; the spear extended it still further.
The HurricaneStory
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But as the separation from her husband lengthened, she found herself becoming increasingly despondent.
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Here and there, both on the river and in the fields, other lights were glimmering, whether close at hand or far away, the eye could not distinguish; they shrank together, then suddenly lengthened out into great blurs of light; grasshoppers innumerable kept up an unceasing churr, persistent as the frogs of the Pontine marshes; and across the cloudless, but dark lowering sky floated from time to time the cries of unseen birds.
Dream tales and prose poems
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One of the ends is lengthened out into a neck or pedicle, which is as long as the egg proper.
The Mason-Bees
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To set the correct toe-out, the track rod has to be removed and shortened or lengthened.
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Meanwhile, dole queues lengthened.
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A shadow lengthened down the deck before them, and a steward stood there, proffering a Marconigram.
Autres Temps... 1916
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This lengthened the odds against chance to a degree where they could be safely ignored.
Dictionary of Mind, Body and Spirit
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But his successors unfortunately returned to the German; the initial I, having from the xiii century been ornamentally lengthened and bent leftwards, became a consonant.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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When binds are used, the stem has to be lengthened as much as may be necessary to reach the bind.
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Fig. 206 represents a specimen of _Ranunculus acris_, in which the lower and lateral flower-stalks were not only increased in number, but so much lengthened as to form a flat-topped inflorescence -- a corymbose cyme.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
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Her Lightblade lengthened to a shortsword as she poured more power into it.
Shadow Chase
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lengthened skirts are fashionable this year
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This dugong, which also bears the name of the halicore, closely resembles the manatee; its oblong body terminated in a lengthened tail, and its lateral fins in perfect fingers.
Twenty-Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
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It finally died as the shadows lengthened.
Times, Sunday Times
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Outside, shadows lengthened across the ground, as the day wore on into early afternoon.
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Open-air exercise undoubtedly have lengthened the old man's life.
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I lengthened my stride and it did the trick.
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How much can a golfer have clubs lengthened or shortened to compensate for height?
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The unemployment queues lengthened and the howls from main street were deafening.
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Exhausted with so lengthened an exposition of the charms of the venerie and the hallali, he stopped, and dropped a walnut into some Regency sherry.
Under Two Flags
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In the horse, the limb is adapted for running: in the forelimb, lateral digits are reduced, the central metacarpal is lengthened, and the radius and ulna are fused for greater strength.
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Alterations have taken place in the skin, the hair, the neck, and the head; the lower jaw has become bigger; the bones of the arms and legs have lengthened, and the American of to-day requires a different kind of glove from the Englishman.
Crime and Its Causes
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The hind limbs are lengthened mostly by an increase in length of the metatarsals and digits, and these feet are further specialized by the near loss of the first digit.
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If its mass had been of equal amount with the earth's mass, its attraction would have influenced the earth's movement in a like degree in return, and the earth would have been so held back in its orbitual progress in consequence, that the year would have been lengthened to the extent of three hours.
Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 450 Volume 18, New Series, August 14, 1852
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I had long suspected that the effect would be non-asymptotic with the length of the chain; that is, that the perturbation of the configuration by the exclusion of one segment of the chain from the space occupied by another would increase without limit as the chain is lengthened.
Paul J. Flory - Autobiography
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As the shadows lengthened, so did the chances of a winner for either side.
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