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Long since   /lɔŋ sɪns/   Listen
Long since

adverb
1.
Of the distant or comparatively distant past.  Synonyms: lang syne, long ago.  "They long ago forsook their nomadic life" , "Left for work long ago" , "He has long since given up mountain climbing" , "This name has long since been forgotten" , "Lang syne"






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"Long since" Quotes from Famous Books



... "It's so long since I was at Balliol, and then I was doing Indian Civil work—the languages, you know. I've forgotten all I knew about the Renaissance in Italy, and I don't look at many pictures. All the same, I think you're wrong—your dramatic imagination, you know. My own idea is that Lady Loudwater, ...
— The Loudwater Mystery • Edgar Jepson

... liege lord, the taller. The other, please your grace, is her poor handmaid, Long since betrothed to me. But the maid's froward— Yet would ...
— The Complete Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Vol I and II • Samuel Taylor Coleridge

... in his view of his friend's motives, as well as of Ethel's present feelings. If there had ever been any disappointment about Norman Ogilvie, it had long since faded away. She had never given away the depths of her heart, though the upper surface had been stirred. All had long subsided, and she could think freely of him as an agreeable cousin, in whose brilliant public career she should always be interested, ...
— The Daisy Chain, or Aspirations • Charlotte Yonge

... our desires being inarched long since in the tree of our loves, the branches thereof bore the lovely bouquets ...
— A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 - From the Beginning to 1800 • George Saintsbury

... evening—Mr. and Mrs. Janson were visiting neighbors, and Rupert and Signe were alone. They sat by the kitchen stove, and the blazing pine wood made a lamp unnecessary. Signe had received a letter from home which she had translated to Rupert. Her father had long since forgiven her. The few dollars she sent home now and then multiplied to quite a few kroner by the time they reached Norway, and they helped the struggling family. After old country topics had been exhausted, the conversation had drifted to religious themes, ...
— Added Upon - A Story • Nephi Anderson


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