It all took a long time.

We talked for a long time.

He lay there for a long time.

He reads deep books with long words in them.

His curiosity has been gone for a long time.

Jim took a long pull on his way back to the house.

They came in through the back gate out of the woods, Eddy carrying the long crosscut saw.

“I’m stiff,” she complained, “I’ve been lying on that sofa for as long as I can remember.”

There were big guns too that passed in the day drawn by tractors, the long barrels of the guns covered with green branches and green leafy branches and vines laid over the tractors.

Twenty miles from the city a pair of enormous eggs, identical in contour and separated only by a courtesy bay, jut out into the most domesticated body of salt water in the Western hemisphere, the great wet barnyard of Long Island Sound.

There were mists over the river and clouds on the mountain and the trucks splashed mud on the road and the troops were muddy and wet in their capes; their rifles were wet and under their capes the two leather cartridge-boxes on the front of the belts, gray leather boxes heavy with the packs of clips of thin, long 6.5 mm. cartridges, bulged forward under the capes so that the men, passing on the road, marched as though they were six months gone with child.