lengthen

``Amongst the ruins of the church The midnight raven found a perch, A melancholy place; The ruthless Conqueror cast down, Woe worth the deed, that little town, To lengthen out his chase.''

Verily, not the rope-makers will I resemble: they lengthen out their cord, and thereby go ever backward.

Increase its size fivefold or tenfold, give it strength proportionate to its size, lengthen its destructive weapons, and you obtain the animal required.

wise the old philosophers who sought To lengthen their long sunsets among flowers, By stealing the young night's unsullied hours And the dim moments with sweet burdens fraught.

Every word is either current, or strange, or metaphorical, or ornamental, or newly-coined, or lengthened, or contracted, or altered.

They looked like a succession of sharp points lengthened into a tremulous line.

Allen's house; and that they should there part with a most affectionate and lengthened shake of hands, after learning, to their mutual relief, that they should see each other across the theatre at night, and say their prayers in the same chapel the next morning.

The doctors, this time, had no fear for his life, provided that his patience would support him through a lengthened period of the most absolute repose.

Happily the facilities of the composite order presented themselves to effect a compromise, and the rafters were lengthened, so as to give a descent that should carry off the frozen element.

The shadows lengthened and crept out like stealthy, grotesque monsters across the grass.

Stutely filled the Bishop's beaker with wine each time he emptied it, and the Bishop got mellower and mellower as the afternoon shades lengthened on toward sunset.

But often a pause so gained lengthened out until it evolved into a complete cessation from the attack.