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Anciently created as single-chamber tombs, dolmens dot the Danish landscape, and during the Romantic era became emblems of home pride, of national strength and lastingness.

From New York Times • Mar. 23, 2023

For American originalists, in particular, Magna Carta has a special lastingness.

From The New Yorker • Apr. 13, 2015

Mystery is part of his beauty and his lastingness.

From New York Times • Aug. 10, 2014

For five cents I could buy five "cannon-balls"—big lumps of the most delicious lastingness.

From John Barleycorn by London, Jack

His work has one message and one only, the lastingness of beauty and its supreme truth.

From English Literature: Modern Home University Library of Modern Knowledge by Mair, G. H. (George Herbert)