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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



... know we have been together the whole livelong day, Robert—since early this morning?" she ...
— The Awakening and Selected Short Stories • Kate Chopin
... an obedient wife, Lifts her poor husband to a knightly throne: What though the livelong day with toils be rife, The solace of his cares at night's his own. If she be modest and her words be kind, Mark not her beauty, or her want of grace; The fairest woman, if deformed in mind Will in thy heart's affections find no place: Dazzling as Eden's beauties to the eye, In outward form: ...
— Life and Literature - Over two thousand extracts from ancient and modern writers, - and classified in alphabetical order • J. Purver Richardson
... altogether, an' it was on'y by the greatest good luck he was able to creep out of her way behind the corner of the frame, or she'd have had him killed as well. Well, the poor fellow, there he sat the whole livelong day, niver so much as offerin' to spin another web; an' sure if he had it 'ud have been no use, for there wasn't the sign of a fly at all. When evenin' come the masther of the house had company, an' there was atin' an' drinkin' an' the best of ...
— North, South and Over the Sea • M.E. Francis (Mrs. Francis Blundell)
... day, as night was closing in, Florent Guillaume thought ruefully of returning to his airy bedchamber. He had fasted the livelong day, sore against the grain, holding that a good Christian ought not to fast in the glorious Resurrection week. Before mounting to his bed in the steeple, he went to offer a pious prayer to the Lady of Le Puy. She was still there ...
— The Merrie Tales Of Jacques Tournebroche - 1909 • Anatole France
... double row, with a broad way between. Each cabin was a facsimile of its neighbour, and in front of each grew a magnolia or a beautiful China-tree, under the shade of whose green leaves and sweet-scented flowers little negroes might be seen all the livelong day, disporting their bodies in the dust. These, of all sizes, from the "piccaninny" to the "good-sized chunk of a boy," and of every shade of slave-colour, from the fair-skinned quadroon to the black Bambarra, on whom, by ...
— The Quadroon - Adventures in the Far West • Mayne Reid


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