longe
Americannoun
verb (used with object)
noun
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Origin of longe
< French, Old French: noun use of longe (adj.) < Latin longa, feminine of longus long 1
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Live Text is no longe exclusive to M1-devices in Apple’s fourth beta.
From The Verge ● Jul. 27, 2021
In 1615, Nicholas Withington, one of the earliest English travellers in India, wrote that water from the Ganges “will never stinke, though kepte never so longe, neyther will anye wormes or vermine breede therein.”
From The New Yorker ● Jul. 18, 2016
A motion which declares "that the Royal Family is no longe necessary as part of the British Constitution" was laughed out.
From Time Magazine Archive
And yet all thys while they, perswade them selues, that they liue as well as hearte canne thinke, or, as the day is broad and longe to.
From One dialogue, or Colloquye of Erasmus (entituled Diuersoria) Translated oute of Latten into Englyshe: And Imprinted, to the ende that the Judgement of the Learned maye be hadde before the Translator procede in the reste. by Erasmus, Desiderius
He treats “Of Armour and Munition;” but, says Harrison, “what hath the longe blacke gowne to doo with glistering armour?”
From Elizabethan England From 'A Description of England,' by William Harrison by Harrison, William
Examples are longes, 396, leues, 1781, haldes, 1382, fedes, 1693, bes, 1744, comes, 1767, glides, 1851, þarnes, 1913, haues, 1952, etes, 2036, dos, 1913; also eteth, 672, haueth, 804, bikenneth, 1269, doth, 1876, liþ, 673.
From The Lay of Havelok the Dane by Unknown
An' when it commence to bile, I put dese here knees down on de flo' befo' de fire an' stir dat coffee for de longes'.
From Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves: Volume I, Alabama Narratives by United States. Work Projects Administration
Dey stayed on our place for de longes'.
From Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves: Volume I, Alabama Narratives by United States. Work Projects Administration
Well, I been gwine in comp'ny wit dat ooman fu' de longes'.
From The heart of happy hollow A collection of stories by Dunbar, Paul Laurence
And thoghe zee kutte hem in never so many gobettes or parties, overthwart or end longes, evermore zee schulle fynden in the myddes the figure of the Holy Cros of oure Lord Jesu.
From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 08 Asia, Part I by Hakluyt, Richard
She had longed to find her brother for years.
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026
All those years that you longed to be loved, what if someone told you they did, and you never knew it?
From Salon ● Jun. 15, 2026
Many viewers also grew weary of Fraser’s Ridge and longed to return to Scotland.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 12, 2026
Rasputin was growing more isolated and knew he had enemies who longed to kill him.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026
But she longed to feel her little daughter once more.
From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock
The ordinary English trainer thinks that a good mouth may be made in two weeks, by strapping a colt's reins to his surcingle for an hour or two daily, and by longeing with a cavesson.
From Patroclus and Penelope A Chat in the Saddle by Dodge, Theodore Ayrault
In longeing you should walk a circle inside the colt’s circle.
From Hints on Horsemanship, to a Nephew and Niece or, Common Sense and Common Errors in Common Riding by Greenwood, George
The great use of longeing is, not that it supples your horse—it is a farce to suppose that—but that, next to leading, it is the easiest act of obedience which you can exact from him.
From Hints on Horsemanship, to a Nephew and Niece or, Common Sense and Common Errors in Common Riding by Greenwood, George
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