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Forever and a day   /fərˈɛvər ənd ə deɪ/   Listen
Forever and a day

adverb
1.
For a very long or seemingly endless time.  Synonym: forever.  "We had to wait forever and a day"






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"Forever and a day" Quotes from Famous Books



... "Forever and a day." Champney made this assertion with a hyper-sentimental inflection of voice, and, lifting the flower to his ...
— Flamsted quarries • Mary E. Waller

... heartily and said that never before had they been so delightfully entertained, and they gave me sweets and nice things to eat, and said they hoped I might stay with them forever and a day. We exchanged confidences, and they warned me to beware of the landlord, who had been known to rob people. They advised me to secrete my money, if perchance I had any. I thanked them kindly, replying that I had only ...
— Tales of Aztlan • George Hartmann

... I said, "why grieve alway? The battle's ended and the shout Shall ring forever and a day,— Why sorrow yet, ...
— The Poets' Lincoln - Tributes in Verse to the Martyred President • Various

... there will I keep you forever, Yes, forever and a day, Till the walls shall crumble to ruin, ...
— Tales of a Wayside Inn • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

... I have often had a dream 780 (Work it up in your next month's article) Of man's poor spirit in its progress, still Losing true life forever and a day Through ever trying to be and ever being— In the evolution of successive spheres— Before its actual sphere and place of life, Halfway into the next, which having reached, It shoots with corresponding foolery Halfway ...
— Men and Women • Robert Browning



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