agelong
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of agelong
Example Sentences
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Chief Israeli Delegate Eliahu Ben-Elissar told his Egyptian hosts: "We come to renew an agelong relationship."
From Time Magazine Archive
At others, he is some kind of primordial natural force, a witness to agelong woe and fatality.
From Time Magazine Archive
Thus Italians owe to the House of Savoy no such agelong allegiance as Hungarians feel toward the Habsburgs, or Japanese toward their 124th lineally descended Emperor.
From Time Magazine Archive
Never in the agelong history of tuberculosis had there been such excitement about a new treatment for the white scourge.
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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