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Livelong   Listen
adjective
Livelong  adj.  
1.
Whole; entire; long in passing; used of time, as day or night, in adverbial phrases, and usually with a sense of tediousness. "The obscure bird Clamored the livelong night." "How could she sit the livelong day, Yet never ask us once to play?"
2.
Lasting; durable. (Obs.) "Thou hast built thyself a livelong monument."





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"Livelong" Quotes from Famous Books



... through the livelong day the Aguila lay motionless, as if held by some invisible cable. No ripple broke the glassy surface, no breath of wind fanned the idle sails, and the air we breathed was hot and stifling, as if proceeding ...
— At the Point of the Sword • Herbert Hayens
... swelled forth again, and whether he willed it or willed it not, so sweet was its magic that there he must wait till the song was done. And now stronger and more gladly rang the sweet shrill voice, like the voice of one who has made moan through the livelong winter night, and now sees the chariot of the dawn climbing the eastern sky. And thus ...
— The World's Desire • H. Rider Haggard and Andrew Lang
... nests; they rear their eager young, And flit on errands all the livelong day; Each field mouse keeps the homestead whence it sprung; But thou art nature's freeman—free to stray Unfettered through the wood, 5 Seeking thine airy food, The sweetness ...
— Story Hour Readings: Seventh Year • E.C. Hartwell
... that there was no beacon, no landmark to warn the vessel of its danger, and inform the pilot what coast they were approaching, and what perils they were to avoid; and, it is probable, that the almost despairing girl was, with her anxious friends, that livelong night a restless wanderer on ...
— The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Vol. 10, No. - 288, Supplementary Number • Various
... livelong day, The livelong day, We beat afoot the northward way We had travelled times before. The sun-blaze burning on our backs, Our shoulders sticking to our packs, By fosseway, fields, and turnpike ...
— Time's Laughingstocks and Other Verses • Thomas Hardy


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