agelong
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of agelong
Example Sentences
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At others, he is some kind of primordial natural force, a witness to agelong woe and fatality.
From Time Magazine Archive
Chief Israeli Delegate Eliahu Ben-Elissar told his Egyptian hosts: "We come to renew an agelong relationship."
From Time Magazine Archive
Today the progress of science . . . has torn to pieces our agelong habits.
From Time Magazine Archive
Judith strips myth down to Freudian psychology and debunks belief with Shavian iconoclasm�the tactics by which modern man burglarizes himself of an agelong heritage of mystery.
From Time Magazine Archive
To Merry the ascent seemed agelong, a meaningless journey in a hateful dream, going on and on to some dim ending that memory cannot seize.
From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien
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