long mark
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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The palatial store which they erected on this spot will long mark the climacteric point in mercantile architecture.
From The Continental Monthly , Vol. 2 No. 5, November 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various
She read over what she had, put in a long mark over a vowel in one of the declensions, looked for other omissions or mistakes, and puzzled over her last English to Latin sentence.
From Betty Lee, Freshman by Harriet Pyne Grove
If I've got to go to jail I'll go, but it won't be for long, mark my words!
From Dave Porter At Bear Camp or, The Wild Man of Mirror Lake by Walter S. Rogers
He watched with an eagerness which he found it difficult to account for, to see the first symptoms of disgust which must ere long mark the failure of this bold but foolish venture.
From The Doctor's Family by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant
Now and then a long mark in the clay showed that a pig had slipped down, and been dragged along for a little way.
From The Secret Rose by W. B. (William Butler) Yeats
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