| 单词 | so long |
| 例句 | The humidity was so thick it dripped off our eyelashes, and in this damp atmosphere the first bouquet took so long that my metal embroidery hoops rusted in place. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Despereaux saw the dark shape of a rat, that thing that he had feared and dreaded for so long, finally step out of the gloom and come to greet him. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z Gregor had pressed his forehead against the screen for so long, he could feel a pattern of tiny checks above his eyebrows. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z But when one group rules over the others for so long. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z Who could have imagined that when we first moved here so long ago? The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z Probably nothing but some air in the lines from settin’ there so long. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z They d been stuck up there so long, they hardly glowed anymore. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z They’d been friends for so long, but his wounds were still raw. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z No harm would come to him ... so long as he kept up. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z He forgave me, maybe because a miserable person can only stand to be alone with their misery for so long. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z All sweaty, he asks, “What took you so long?” Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z “Your hair really is so long,” he says. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z I'd be okay, so long as I didn't spend too much time like that. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Marion told us we could take it out, so long as we paid attention to the tides. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z She looked way dreamier than she had in any of my nightmares, and I couldn’t really remember why I’d been afraid of her for so long. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z Why had Grandmother waited so long to give her this information? A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z I’d been here so long I’d gotten used to the trees and the deer, the shadows and sunlight, the slow turn of the years from season to season. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z It’s never seemed so long, this courtyard, not even when I’ve run a hundred sprints across it in the dead of summer. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z “So people’s civil liberties can go to hell so long as we’re safe, yeah?” Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z Your normal sexual outlets have been blocked for so long that now the sexual overflow is seeping out into the wrong channels. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z He apologizes to his girlfriend for taking so long and kisses her on the forehead before sitting down. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z He didn’t care what the others said or what they thought, just as long as they left him alone—just so long as he didn’t have to talk to them or meet their stares. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z “Dr. Cable wanted to turn them all, but she was worried that Mom and Dad might talk about the brain lesions, even after the operation, because they’d been focused on them for so long.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z Adam looked around at the flowered curtains washed so long that the blossoms were pale. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z I slow further when I hit the park, half because I'm out of breath and half because so long as I can't see into the dugout, he's there and he isn't. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z "So this is why Robb Stark sends you back to me, after so long? So you might win my consent to this plan erf his?" A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z When he was asked how he had lived so long, he said he "found refuge on God's thumb." Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z He says my sudden shyness was one of the most heartbreaking symptoms of being separated from us for so long. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z “Not so long as that,” said I. “Two or three months at most.” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z Kate had told herself she could handle the Executives, but she’d been fooling herself—just as she had fooled herself for so long. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z “What took you so long?” he asked, waving to the front door of the shack. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z I can taste salt, and I want to scream Khalid’s name, scream so long and hard that the dead have no choice but to give him back to me. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z Years later Fitzsimmons would argue that the intense campaign through which he and his assistants put Seabiscuit gave the horse the seasoning that enabled him to race for so long as an older horse. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z It seemed to her certain that she would suffer from the consequences of it, that no one could maintain such deceit for so long without paying for it somehow. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z I hadn’t had shoes for so long that I never even thought about them anymore. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Dadi nodded and closed her eyes for so long, I thought she had fallen asleep. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z My lady wife lowered the New York Times and gazed at me so long that I inspected any recent deeds and impulses. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Now it was clear why the hyena had confined itself to such an absurdly small space behind the zebra and why it had waited so long before killing it. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z She hoped Elena wouldn’t speak of what her heart refused to remember, hoped that the queen wouldn’t mention what she had spent so long forgetting. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z The silence went on and on, so long that she began to grow afraid once more, but she was afraid for him now, not for herself. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z “No. I can drive just so long as I know somebody will wake me up if 1 go to sleep.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z Now a natural question is why it took so long for anyone to find a moon in our own solar system. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z “You said you were going to cook up a feast, didn’t you? So go get cooking. Ampai’s got a lot to catch up on from being gone so long.” A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z I had never seen so many people, or been so hot, or stood in one place for so long. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z My daughter does not know that I was married to this man so long ago, twenty years before she was even born. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Finally, after searching for so long, we were close to being able to fix the damage I’d caused. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z “Don’t I know how it is on a fine May night? Wasn’t I young, meself, once and not so long ago as you might think?” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z That night Fayge began to speak, as if the words so long dammed up had risen to flood. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Indeed, the applause for Cedric went on so long that it was some time before Dumbledore could make himself heard again. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z He hadn’t done this since he was a little, little kid, so long ago it had been his father who’d punished him for it. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z "It is no matter to them if the high lords play their game of thrones, so long as they are left in peace." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z The table was so long you couldn’t see that far underneath without getting down on your hands and knees, and Aunt Anne was much too dignified to stoop to any such level. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z Archer felt as if the man were scooping him up and shaking him, so all the things he’d blocked out for so long, all the things he’d tried to forget, would come tumbling out. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z “Huh. No more foolish than you were when you were saying the same thing to me not so long ago,” Matthias retorted. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z The radical implications of the revolutionary legacy were no help at all so long as they remained only implications. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z ‘It was so long ago I couldn’t count.’ The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z She peered at me over her spectacles, and then she opened a drawer and fumbled among its contents for a long time, so long that my hopes began to falter. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z The poor drill wasn't designed to operate constantly for so long. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z She wondered why she’d held so tightly to her feelings for so long, and if it might be possible to give them some slack. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z Of course I would never need the drench so long as I was careful. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z And for a moment I wanted it to happen, the way Fred had so long ago. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z “Kids are like that, why worry? Someday she’ll grow up, someday our friendly local Gestapo will make her apologize—” “We all should live so long,” Bud groaned. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z We’d been captive in them for so long, stuck in their belly like Jonah. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z His leg is so long that he finds a place for his foot easily and guides his body between the bars. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z My mom says fine so long as your parents home? Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z Mr. Quisling paced the aisles for so long the laughter faded into suppressed giggles, then uneasy silence and shifting in seats. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z My father said that “C” stood for “consistency” and that he was very proud of me, so long as I was doing my best. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z “I’m sorry it took me so long,” she said, her voice steady. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Cold earth instead will take in her embrace a man or two of those who fed so long on what is his.” The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z I wondered if it was the same one I had heard from my window on those nights so long ago. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z And anyway, it wasn’t so long ago that slavery was common practice throughout all the United States. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z He’d been shooting so long, his fingers were starting to lose their feeling. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z “Sorry it took so long, but Erica was super busy. And there wasn’t anyone else here to ask for help.” Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z I pull on a pair of dark red pants made of denim—so long I have to roll them up three times—and a gray Abnegation shirt that is too big for me. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z She laughed her little musical laugh, which I hadn’t heard in so long. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Yishan grinned and took his handkerchief out of his sleeve, holding it out to her as he had to Lady Meng so long ago. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z If the man was curious about why they’d taken so long to hide supplies, he showed no sign. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z “Well, I don’t understand how you can go so long without a cigarette,” she responds in a tone of reproach. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z The old man had lived so long that he was nothing more than a pile of glass bones covered by a yellow skin. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “It’s hard to understand,” she said to Beatrice, “how your stepbrother could go missing for so long and nobody in the family got concerned enough to call the police.” Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z I asked why you wanted to hang out after ignoring me for so long. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z Our house is still drying out after being underwater for so long. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z The girl leaned forward, grimacing as if she was also sore from remaining still so long. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z She is studying my head for so long, I wonder if something is wrong. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z Being so hungry is why we haven’t walked north in so long. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z Things had been going wrong for so long, it was hard to believe they might go right at last. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Monday loved Ma’s cooking, and being sick for so long, I was sure she could use something sweet. Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z “Well,” she reiterated, and stood up, stretching her arms, and feeling the need to relax her muscles after having been so long seated. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z He did not care what happened so long as a good store of stone was accumulated before he went on pension. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z Jinny looked at her, remembering what stay had felt like in her own mouth, not so long ago. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z But it went on much longer than when he was talking about my crime—so long, in fact, that finally all I was aware of was how hot a morning it was. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z We had been aces for so long, had been playing ball and running the streets for so long that we knew each other’s moves. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z If such a minor scrape from Celestial bronze took so long to heal, Piper wondered how he’d ever get over the Imperial gold wound in his gut. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z He is silent and still for so long that eventually, I have to say something. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z She probably didn’t remember playing there among the flowers the last time Papá brought us to see his mother so long ago. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z “We shouldn’t have waited so long. This has gone too far. There’s got to be a stronger medication she can prescribe.” Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z He hadn’t expected to be standing outside so long. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z Of course my cousins would not want to tell on Dray because they’ve known him for so long. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z He didn’t seem to mind too much so long as it didn’t cost him anything. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z “Honestly, Rachel, I don’t understand how you could have kept this up for so long.” The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z “Camp outside town and no one will bother you so long as you don’t start any fights or wander off with anything that isn’t yours.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z The huge high bed Auntie Venus had occupied for so long without complaint had gone, and so had the carved trousseau chest and the green silk sofa. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Walk so long I know my mom and dad must be getting worried, but I can only hope Auntie Idris is keeping them nice and distracted. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z We spent so long arguing in the street that now we’re about to miss curfew. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z I felt so deeply for this person that I had not seen in so long. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z But the nucleus is a hundred thousand times smaller still, which is part of the reason it took so long to be discovered.* Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z We believed that man should live by hard facts alone, and we had so long ago put God out of our minds that we did not even discuss Him. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z I have been frightened half out of my foolish wits, but I have somehow earned this joy; I have been waiting for it for so long. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z But she cried for so long that Maddie fell asleep first. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z Love looked so pretty, even though her forehead was shiny, glowing with sweat, from standing over the hot food for so long. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z The weird thing, he told me, was that Rose’s gran keeping her out of the system for so long had actually helped Rose learn to relate to other people. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z There was so long a pause, Johnny’s next words sounded awkward. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s been so long since I’ve been anywhere with live electricity, with light and power after dark, I hardly remember what it’s like to turn on a light switch. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z My experience with endless frustration and having to work on things for so long has actually paid off. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z “Life on a ship for so long can be difficult. My primary role is to help administer the tonics, thus stabilizing any mood the Collective may encounter.” The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z He hung around watching the nest for so long that he almost missed the school bus. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z "It doesn't matter who you are or what you look like so long as somebody loves you." The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z We were quiet for so long, Miig began to stand up, pushing his hands on his thighs when Wab spoke again. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z A clearing in the steam, caused by the draught from the door so long unopened, showed him the lady who had given the squeak. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z After so long I could not adjust to it. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z “If you had Angela pegged as a suspect for weeks, why did you wait so long to arrest her?” Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z It was not something that belonged in a museum, but my mom kept it on our coffee table for so long that it dried and crumbled. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z “What took you so long?” she asked, with a bit of anger in her voice. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z I could understand his anger: it was one thing for a grandparent to withhold something like that from a grandchild, quite another for a father to keep it from his son—and for so long. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z He hesitated for so long I thought he was going to say no. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z Back then—which was not so long ago—she made me feel weak, but now her strength makes me feel like I could be stronger too. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z Not so long ago, they’d been lean and strong, able to crack a nut with a pinch, able to press a seed deep into the earth with one stab of a finger. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z He worked so hard to open up the doors that had been closed for so long to African-Americans. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z But her feet had not felt the earth in ever so long, and her thoughts had been replaced by whirlwinds and storms that swept all her cupboards bare. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z The first day of summer seems so long ago. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z Quincy hadn’t said nothing for so long that I almost caught me hiccups from the surprise. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Big Ma didn’t seem to mind being alone for so long. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z The day had been so long, it seemed to stretch back to eternity. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “I think we might make it,” he said, with that complete simplicity I had so long taken for irony. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z But a person can only keep reality—and anger—at bay for so long before the truth comes back again. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z And there he remained so long saying, “Astonishing” at intervals, so often, that I began to think his senses were never coming back. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z It could be, so long as you didn’t turn around and look back down towards number fifteen. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z “Ugh! Ugh! Now I must go wash at once! Who knows what diseases these creatures must carry, after living so long in the wild?” The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z The Middle, so long as it was struggling for power, had always made use of such terms as freedom, justice, and fraternity. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z When the insertions arrived in Florence, the covering letter from Riccardi included the sentence, ‘the author may alter or embellish the wording, so long as the substance is preserved’. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z Xan turned her back on the swamp and followed the trail up the slope, toward the crater where the volcano had opened its face to the sky so long ago. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z The water was frozen, and the snow had been falling for so long that Bran had lost count of the days, turning the lake into a vast white wilderness. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z He could be heard, of course, but so long as he stayed in his present position he could not be seen. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z How could I have missed it for so long? Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z “To keep sanity must be a struggle, to keep honor a Herculean feat. I am not judging your father, only seeking to explain why he survives so long.” Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z She was not accustomed to standing so still for so long. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “Pan’s pipes, Valdez! Maybe if you hadn’t been staring into Hazel’s eyes, holding hands for so long—” “What?’ The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z “What took you so long, Charlie?” shouts Gimpy from the doorway to the back of the bakery. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z “Not too short, not too long. Our longevity will be adequate, not cut off too soon, not so long we become a burden.” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Serena began to feel responsible for making the boy wait so long for this moment, an entire month. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z I knew it would be tough, but after being teammates with someone for so long, you learn their strengths and weaknesses. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z "It's all so long ago," she added, stuffing more crisps into her mouth. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z It’s the same face from so long ago. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Not like it mattered, because she’d been up there so long that she was already wet from the rain. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z My hands have been still so long that it is difficult to remember how it is. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z This is it, what Elizabeth and I have been working on for so long. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z “I’m hooked up to all sorts of machines. That’s why it took me so long to get to the intercom.” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z He won’t admit I knew all about the state of grace a year ago, so long ago I’m starting to forget it. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Why did we take so long to domesticate strawberries and raspberries? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z She doesn’t speak for so long that I begin to question if I have spoken after all. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z “You can still choose your path,” said Eilonwy, “so long as it leads you from us. And I hope you follow it as swiftly as you did when you sneaked away.” The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z The piece of log that had been there so long, sturdy and useful, had simply fallen into chunks of dead vegetative matter; never again would it provide Matty a place to rest. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z “I guess I couldn’t have stayed around so long if I hadn’t. He is not smart in a worldly sense but he’s a good man. Maybe the best man I have ever known.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z He had been working in a tidal pattern so long that he could feel a tide change in his sleep. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z John could only carry him for so long. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z She had had to clear her throat before speaking, it had been so long since she had said anything at all. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z They made their way through the trees in silence for so long that Harry thought Firenze didn’t want to talk to him anymore. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z Judge Ford did not remember a mole; she remembered copper- colored hair and thin lips, but it was so long ago, and well—Mrs. Westing was white. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z After so long wearing simple cotton, this fabric felt smooth and light against my skin. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z The first day of school seems so long ago. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z I had a chance so long as he did not sense me. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z His eyes were so wild, his hair so long and matted, his voice was so full of authority and thunder that he caused panic on the first, or Charter, National Suicide Day in 1920. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z Sad that it took me so long to get there. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z I’ve been away from the real world for so long that the combination of engines running, dogs barking, and horns honking brings a lump to my throat. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z “Maybe. You guys have been two peas in a pod for so long. Maybe Jack decided he needs to have some friends who are boys. It’s natural for someone Jack’s age.” Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z The world in which she now found herself was not unlike the world from which she had, so long ago, been rescued. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z And for so long I have wanted to escape into the Dream, to fold my country over my head like a blanket. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z “I’m sorry it took so long to get you back,” he said softly. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z All of us prayed that our suffering was over, that we could go back to our lives, to the families from whom we had been separated for so long. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z Nothing silly, joyful, or fun has happened in so long. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z “Master of the Universe, it has taken so long, but now the end is here.” The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z And I said, “Just so long as it is not naked and with wings, one atom at a time.” 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z The problem was, we hadn’t had a conversation in so long, it seemed like we didn’t have anything to say. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z “Just so long as it’s gum,” shouted Violet Beauregarde, “just so long as it’s a piece of gum and I can chew it, then that’s for me!” Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z Our itinerary is full—we are going to stay in Incheon for a few days so Grandma can see how much it has changed since she left so long ago. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z The white doctor who had been around so long that he was part of the muck. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z There was no way to win this game playing by the rules that had been set up so long ago. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z “It was all so long ago, I barely remember. Now—when do you want to begin?” Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z Now, Miss Kenton, I apologize for keeping you up so long. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z As the rickshaw putters along the road, darting through traffic, I drag to my lips the question that's been stuck in my heart for so long. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z It was very warm, and, unused to so long a jolting, I fell asleep. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z Embarrassed for a quite unimportant reason—because my hand was hard from working and his were soft, from wearing those plastic gloves so long, I suppose. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z Fortunately, another girl from Irishtown visited after lunch and the two gossiped in the parlor for so long that afterward Fiona had to speed through her chores. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Capricorn handed Cockerell, who was standing beside him, the book that Mo had kept from him for so long, and bent to open the box. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z “Perhaps Miss Fairfax has never been staying here so long before.” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z And today Grandma Rose's turns take so long, it feels like this one match has gone on for ten straight years. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z I stared at the words so long that they started looking unfamiliar, like something written in an entirely different language. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z “You’ll never lack for anything so long as I live,” he said. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z "Then let it be on my head, so long as it is done. I am not so blind that I cannot see the shadow of the axe when it is hanging over my own neck." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Though it hurt her to be away for so long, she was too frightened to return. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z “You will be surprised to hear from me after so long. I have thought of writing many times, but you know how a man puts it off. “I wonder how this letter finds you. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z But she was still angry at Pa for having been gone so long, and angrier at Cecile—who she called the “root of all evil.” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z The Bells was breached, taking on water so fast they barely got out with half of what was in the holds...and that wasn’t much, not after sailing out there so long. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z I watched each circle puff up and felt a lightness I hadn’t felt in so long. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z It had taken us so long to have her, so many years of trying and failing. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z He had been full of the idea so long, dreamed it right through to the end, waited with his teeth set, so to speak, at an inconceivable pitch of intensity. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z “What took you so long?” she asked me. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z I try to imagine what it must feel like to live in one place for so long. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z Me and the man headed back toward Flint, driving over the same road it took me so long to walk. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z And so she listened on, listening for so long that some of what Ralph had to say almost made sense. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z I had never been away from Soraya for so long, and when she locked her arms around my neck, when I smelled apples in her hair, I realized how much I had missed her. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z He knew that it would fade, so long as he wasn’t touching mesarthium, and return as soon as he did. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z He knew this wood, but he had been so long confined to Winterfell that he felt as though he were seeing it for the first time. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z “Must be nice to live in the same place for so long.” A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z It seemed strange beyond belief that he had ever lain so long in the room. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z It had been so long since Glerk had last confronted an enemy. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z It was there that El Patron had introduced him to the family so long ago. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “I mean, after being away from the world for so long?” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z It was dimly lit, but to their eyes, after so long a time in the dark, it seemed dazzlingly bright, and they blinked as they entered. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z “Middleweight? What, this was so long ago gravity wasn’t as strong as it is now, or did a pound just weigh less back then?” Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z Not so long ago he let himself dream of Berlin and its great scientists: Fritz Haber, inventor of fertilizer; Hermann Staudinger, inventor of plastics. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Meanwhile, the full stop is surely the simplest mark to understand - so long as everyone continues to have some idea what a sentence is, which is a condition that can’t be guaranteed. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z But just as justice delayed is justice denied, a reform so long postponed and so grudgingly enacted was hardly worth celebrating. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z That is: Padre Sinkovich had wanted a bell so badly for so long that one day he simply began to hear a joyful bronze tolling beneath the dirt floor of his humble mud church. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z At that moment in Macondo Úrsula took the cover off the pot of milk on the stove, wondering why it was taking so long to boil, and found it full of worms. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z The boy wanted to quit because the work was so hard and the hours were so long and the pay was so small. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z But it took so long to drive here. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z The groom called to see what was taking Allen so long. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z Then Ma Charles asked, “What took you so long, son?” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z I have waited so long to hear your sweet voice. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z “Gay men have commandeered the business of creating theater for so long that being gay could actually be considered a career move.” Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z “With all my heart. I am really tired of exploring so long on one spot. Come, Jane, take my other arm.” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z She lost track of time, which was easy to do with the summer sun staying up so long. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z To this day, Abuela makes the sign of the cross when we go by the condo, just in case Doña Rosa is still mad that it took us so long to notice. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z “My opinion is that I can’t go twenty more feet so long as the white weather lasts.” The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z They were young creatines—the same creatures whose eyes had met with the almost forgotten click of magnets in the smoky Hall of Camelot so long ago. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z The old words unused for so long came rattling back to me. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z And then, embarrassed to have talked so long about herself, she asked, “But I reckon you know how it is with families, ey?” Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z It is more likely that the mere fact they have survived so long means they have learned to live with themselves and others. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I had not thought the way so long. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z And now suddenly he saw why he had been safe and why he would be safe so long as he fed the three of his uncle’s house. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z “Well, he ain’t clean when he comes to school. He don’t grow much beard, but his hair’s so long and tangled and dirty it looks like a dern cootie stable, haw!” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z She was pleased to see me with my nose buried in a book, any book, so long as it wasn’t naughty. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Perhaps, so long as people tried to possess things separately from each other, even honour and souls, there would be wars for ever. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z I drank two beers, then said so long to Glen and James and the other guys I never met. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z Then he sat there, leaning forward like that, for so long that for an instant I seemed to forget he was there. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z I’ve hated it so long I can hardly remember feeling any other way about it. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z They are so long that they graze her shins like a skirt. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z “It usually does not take so long,” says Bastian mildly, almost as if to himself. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z “Please. It’s been so long. Come give your Papá a hug.” Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z She had been our second mother for so long—would she now become the one to grieve us? X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Books was something missing from my life for so long. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z And then I say it again, because I told myself lies for so long, and now my body is still and my breath is steady and I feel alive with the truth. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z If so, why did Oppenheimer wait so long to tell us about it? Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Hope, so long crushed, rose up in my breast. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z I am tempted to break this pattern, but it’s been so long since she’s ridden the bus that she has no memory of which bus is hers. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z But up close, in the sunlight slanting in from the window, they’re a light golden color and so long I don’t see how they keep from getting all tangled up when he blinks. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z ‘Why are there so few, when you have lived in this country so long?’ asked Pippin. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z He came in, the quiet old man who had done his best so long. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z But I see now how sedulously she labored to create her illusion; for she knew it should protect me only so long as I believed it. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z I had dwelt so long upon Claudius’s evil that I believed I knew what his next step would be. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z It’s been so long since I’ve heard him say my name like that, and it’s making me hope. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z "The size of his host does not matter, sweetling, so long as they are on the wrong side of the river. Stannis cannot cross without ships." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z She dropped her head onto her pillow and was quiet for so long I thought she was asleep. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z He saw him first as a dark shadow that took so long to pass under the boat that he could not believe its length. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z His fingers are so long that, though the heel of his hand touches one side of my rib cage, his fingertips still touch the other side. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z If the priest, who had for so long been unwilling to condemn the Trementinas’ doings, had taken a stand then surely that would lend courage to the villagers. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s been so long since I felt it that I barely recognize it at first. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z “Minya,” she pleaded, “so long as no one’s died, there’s hope of finding some other way.” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z “But we just came, Papi. It doesn’t take so long to get home...” When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z I will build whatever you ask, so long as you watch over it and preserve it from the fire!’ Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z Atticus said, “I can take anything anybody calls me so long as it’s not true. You don’t even know how to cuss, Jean Louise. By the way, where did you pick up the ring-tailed variety? ” Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z The only thing that had held him back for so long, he acknowledged, was his false pride. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z Then he met my mother, an American, which is why he stayed over here so long. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z The North’s liberals have been for so long pointing accusing fingers at the South and getting away with it that they have fits when they are exposed as the world’s worst hypocrites. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z They had been in the locker room so long that the sun was up completely now, although remnants of mist hung over the grass in the stadium. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z She only invited me to the party to clear her beautiful name after ignoring me for so long. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z “It is nine o’clock: what are you about, Miss Eyre, to let Adèle sit up so long? Take her to bed.” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z And I knew my first words to her in so long had to be real. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z There are copper head snakes, coral snakes, cottonmouth snakes, and the blue indigo snake, so long and fast it can kill a rattlesnake. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z His legs were so long it seemed like they swung from his waist. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z We’ve always known, he would think; what took you so long? Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z “The curse was this: the keeper of the stone would live forever, but so long as he kept it, misfortunes would fall on all those he loved one after another in unending rain.” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Once when the Muse was on her, she sat staring into space so long I got worried. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z “For so long I will keep the Greeks back from battle.” Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z There was another long pause, so long I thought maybe the phone had stopped working. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z “It happened so long ago, sometimes it feels like I’m just telling someone else’s story. Another person’s life that I've memorized.” Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z “She locked both doors, so the boys had to break into a ground-floor window so they could get upstairs. That’s what took so long.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Many of the women were fellow villagers; others might as well have been villagers, together so long in California. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Mary could almost feel them welcoming it in their poor parched throats, which were so perfectly shaped for it, and which had been starved for so long. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z She stood there so long that Dustfinger eventually closed his eyes so as not to have to look at her, but then he heard her weeping and his face turned hot with shame. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z I was nothing but ashes now, but I felt myself to be stronger than this Almighty to whom my life had been bound for so long. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Just buying the pens took most of another afternoon because it took so long to get waited on at Schmitt’s Variety Store. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z It was not unreasonable for him to anticipate his own death— he had been ill for so long, and the doctors could not figure out what was wrong with him. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z “Are you talking to me again? It’s been so long since you’ve said anything nice.” A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z After driving for so long through the flat South Dakota prairie, it was a shock to come upon the Badlands. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z I’m shaky at first because it’s been so long and I wasn’t sure I’d ever drive again either. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z “Thanks for yelling. We wouldn’t have found you otherwise. How’d you hold them off so long?” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z It had been so long since Hotah last heard him laugh, he had almost forgotten what it sounded like. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z I stand, my back sore from leaning against the wall for so long, and walk past the other initiates. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z I had never seen him stand so still, or go so long without a smile. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z I recalled the day so long ago when I was swimming in the brook, free as a fish, and Hamlet came upon me. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z I wonder what it will be like to do as Captain Smith says and work with the others rather than keeping to myself the way I have done for so long. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z Doubtless we have here the reason why the man remained in the compartment with his victim so long. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z "It wasn't so long ago the government paid two hundred dollars bounty for every Indian killed by settlers." Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z In this he saw that Ogion had been right: the shadow could not draw on his power, so long as he was turned against it. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z His wife, too, came from old island people—the Varigs, Art remembered, hay farmers and shake cutters with a few stump acres on Cattle Point—and her father had passed away not so long ago. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z But so long as he uttered it, in some obscure way the continuity was not broken. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z We’d been passed out so long in the cave that night had fallen, but the woods were thick and the full moon was somewhat obstructed. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z I asked him why it took him so long for things to fall apart. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z “But your presence can be soothing so long as what you say is soothing.” If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z She insisted on her unequivocal determination for them to remain together only so long as they were friends, without constraints or promises for the future, just like Sartre and Beauvoir. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z He had knelt so long that his blood had almost stopped and needle-like pains shot from the bottom of his feet to the calves of his legs. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z “What happened? You took so long, we were worried to death,” Ma says as she ushers him in with her arm around his shoulders. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Mom agreed to let me go so long as I texted her as soon as I got there. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z But do not wait so long that your memory fades. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z After the flares struck they’d been left with only whatever they had that hadn’t fried, and batteries only lasted so long. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z But he knew he couldn’t go back to the world of no feelings that he had lived in so long. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z But she hadn’t thought that mattered, not so long as they were friends, but maybe they weren’t friends anymore. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z To modern eyes, the puzzle is not that this should have occurred, but that it should have taken so long for people to lose their inferiority complex. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z It rained so hard, so long and so incessantly that the thought of a period of no rain provoked a mild wonder. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z It feels that way since it takes so long for me to get to and from my old neighborhood. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z I remembered what Annabeth had said so long ago on our quest: The real world is where the monsters are. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z But if anything, it’d been building up for so long he was just anxious to get out there and let what happened happen. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z Which seemed to surprise Mr. Sloan, but then he nodded and said, “Which must be why he stayed on Penikese for so long. He was digging up the island. But what for?” Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z I keep my eyes on the city for so long that my eyes start to blur. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z And so long as people wanted only a can of tomatoes or a pound of rice it was all right. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z Why else take so long to choose a dress, or fight over a vase, or find everything so different, or be unable to leave? Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Tommy and I talked about all this not so long ago, and his own account of how his troubles began confirmed what I was thinking that night. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z The preps have been forced into cramped body positions for so long that even once the shackles are removed, they have trouble walking. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z Not so long ago, he’d fought for his life in the Roman Colosseum before a cheering ghostly audience. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Because Guam had been an American island for so long, the Chamorros spoke English as well as we did. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z After being inside so long, the daylight almost blinded me. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z When he flew, his body, so long and graceful on the ground, took on the appearance of a thick, stumpy cylinder, from the front of which his red beak projected between his round black eyes. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z He had waited so long that he could wait as long as was necessary until his bride reached the age of conception. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z “Could it be because he was away from the lab for so long?” Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z The woman was softly beautiful, translucent from having eaten potatoes for so long. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z This left a hole in the middle of the snozzcumber large enough for her to crouch in so long as she rolled herself up into a ball. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “What a big boy you are, Mustafa. I’m so happy to be seeing my niece and nephew after so long.” Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z “Well—hell! I had him so long. Had him since he was a pup. I herded sheep with him.” Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z That’s why it took her so long to wrap up four cookies. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z They were fifteen years old and they had known so long that they were sons of a wealthy man that the feeling was hard to lose. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z “What took you so long? I almost left you behind.” When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z Publicly, however, the parking meter had to stay so long as the mayor, the council, and the police force were locked in a life-and-death struggle with Onofre Martinez. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z How very kind Mr. Brooke is, and how fortunate that Mr. Laurence’s business detains him near you so long, since he is so useful to you and Father. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z It seems brutally selfish to me to have slept so long, and let him watch all night; but he was quite right. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z “I don’t know, Finn, maybe the Google pictures of the other street were taken so long ago, those fences weren’t built yet,” Natalie said. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z How had this small, damaged...child...ruled them for so long? Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z “Remaining a bird for so long tends to cramp the muscles.” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z But I feel awful that Soojin’s family is having this big moment after waiting for so long, and I’m not even talking to my best friend. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z “And if I decide that I want to throw in with Madoc, well then, so long as you get paid, it won’t matter, will it?” The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z He had ears so long that they were touching the ground. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z It’s a practical symbol, communicating the patient attitude that has allowed the people here to stay for so long, watching and waiting. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z He was silent for so long that Tree-ear thought he had fallen asleep. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z I told her I dint know it took so long but I wantid to lern anyway because I made believe a lot of times. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z Four tables is nothing for me now, but only so long as they are obligingly staggered. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z The moment stretched out so long, I thought it would never end. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z But solo adventures can only last for so long. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z And in the dream there was a peculiar horror in wandering on and on through the crowd and not knowing where to lay down the burden he had carried in his arms so long. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Harry was silent so long that Scrimgeour said, looking from Harry to the gnome, “Funny little chaps, aren’t they? But what say you, Harry?” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z “When you came into the Temple last night—” said I, pausing to wonder whether that could really have been last night, which seemed so long ago. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z “Are you one of the angels who rebelled so long ago?” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Nathan was waiting for me and he said crossly: “You look like a corpse. Whatever possessed you to stay so long?” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s so long it has an intermission, and we’ve made plans to stay the night. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z She was a quiet, precise woman who had been at Welch High School so long that she had also been Dad’s English teacher. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Back at school, Ms. Wyman is having a hard time going along with Mr. Kiley’s instructions to leave Addie be, so long as she stands up with the rest of us. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z She had known him for so long that she forgot to call him Benjamin, the name he decided he wanted to be called the day he turned ten. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z I have been stuck in this house for so long that I think the wallpaper is moving. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z “But we don’t really need the limeys, do we, Pete, you think? Not so long as we have old Bobby Lee to lead the way.” The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Edna arose, cramped from lying so long and still In the hammock. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z She remembered those eyes from that afternoon so long ago when she’d been only five. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z I had wanted this for so long, I wouldn’t let fear sully the moment. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z It had been so long since it had been used, the slot was clogged with dust. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z “Few kings of Faerie have ruled so well for so long as Eldred. Now he goes to seek the Land of Promise.” The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z “In fact, I’m surprised they’ve kept it going so long. The Capitol will adjust by deactivating specific pods and then manually triggering them when their targets come in range.” Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z I’m snuggled under a thick blanket on the couch and have been reading for so long that I don’t notice it’s getting dark outside until Baba switches on the lamp. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z And if this is what it’s like having a boyfriend, I don’t know why in God’s name I waited so long. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z Laboriously scratching letters in the earth with a stick—it seemed so long ago. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z He, remembered Rhaegar's infant son, the red ruin of his skull, and the way the king had turned away, as he had turned away in Darry's audience hall not so long ago. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z She sat there like that for so long that I started to worry that maybe her marker was going to dry out, because the cap was off. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z Why didn’t we like the thick fatty pig skin that she would deep-fry so long that it tasted like rubber? Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z My modem was sadly outdated, my free service substandard; just dialing up took so long that I decided to go get myself a bowl of cereal while I waited. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z Of course he would rather be home, but they had been gone so long, home had grown somewhat hazy in his mind. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z I hadn’t seen myself in so long that this had not occurred to me. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z We’d been thinking about the deferrals, the theory about the Gallery, all of it, for so long— and now, suddenly, here we were. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z "We will keep our own watch so long as we are here. See that no one enters this wing of the palace without my leave, and take care that the dragons are always well guarded." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z After pleading for so long to get a dog, we didn’t want to wait even one more day. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Lady Stark could keep her trust; so long as he could keep the axe, he would count himself ahead in the game Ser Willis Wode led them out. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Because it took so long, each sari became a part of our lives. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z The silver must be run at a certain speed and be allowed to cool for just so long. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z “You’re welcome. And...you can tell Rishi he isn't going to be kicked out. I'm willing to look the other way so long as this doesn’t happen again.” When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z Why have you neglected to report for so long?” The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z “What took you so long?” she says, her voice kinda loud, and I don’t know which one of us she’s talking to. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z It had been built so long ago that it held up its own weight, without any support from hoverstruts. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z “How come you so long seeing me, then?” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z The day I had waited for so long had turned black and ugly. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z It has taken me so long to believe I am saved. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The thought of actually seeing his parents’ faces after so long made Tendai’s throat feel tight. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z The corporal who had helped carry Rocky for so long put his arm around Tayo and kept him on his feet. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z They did not matter so long as one knew them for what they were. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z They talk so long I go back to the table and my books. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z For so long she had dreamed of taking a trip by herself, without Tiller. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z I didn’t remember the road being so long. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z But he was afraid of dying alone, afraid of being deserted by the person he had depended on for so long. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z It is galling indeed to have stood so long, hat in hand, waiting for Americans to grow up enough to realize that you do not threaten them. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z The smaller girl had on a jacket the sleeves of which were so long that they came down to her knuckles. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z The helicopters were everywhere, but didn’t usually hover so low for so long, and rarely in such a densely built neighborhood. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z The Brahmin was silent so long that the stars passed across the small window and changed their design before the silence in the room was finally broken. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z Then at last he left the tent in which he had sat so long, and went down to where the Greeks were gathered, a wretched company, Diomedes grievously wounded, Odysseus, Agamemnon, and many another. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z I’ve been running so fast, so hard, so long, it actually hurts to stand still. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z It was like he had been standing for so long, ignoring the ache in his knees and ankles, and now, finally able to sit down, felt every pain at once. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z They had not listened to the conversation between Father and the martial arts instructor in the library so long ago. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z He also explained that it took so long to respond because the post office had been on strike. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z But I had been making my own bed for so long it had become a reflex. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Johnny told his children how Hendrick Hudson had sailed up that same river so long ago. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Dr. Finch had drunk so long and so deep of his heady brew that his being was shot through with curious mannerisms and odd exclamations. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z Yet, in Florence’s heart tonight hatred and bitterness weighed like granite, pride refused to abdicate from the throne it had held so long. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z “I’m sorry it’s taken us so long to get her enrolled,” the translator from the district said when she called. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z There is no way there will be hunting and poaching at Gombe so long as we have the money to pay our field staff. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z It seemed so long since I had used it, and yet it was only four months ago. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z “You know, are you worried that Ben was in the cold water so long he’ll have some kind of permanent brain damage or something?” Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z He could not find it at first and he felt called upon to say something for taking so long. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z I waited so long for his answer I finally decided he hadn’t heard me. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s true my arm hair grows so long and black. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z She wondered what the pteranodon had been through, what she felt like, tasting the sky for the first time in so long after only seeing glimpses of it. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z And then she lit a cigarette and sucked on it so hard for so long that I thought the entire thing might burn off in one drag. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z I can only say that after living so long with the birds and animals, the movement of a human is like the difference between the explosion of a cap pistol and a cannon. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Janie hung over the newel post thinking so long that she all but went to sleep there. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z He’d had it for so long that all the decals had been rubbed away, it was just a red torso and yellow limbs. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z It occurred to me then that there was a chance we would be driving around so long that Chubs would die. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z “It will be a hard thing to do after so long,” said Lee. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Mother had been worrying—they took so long—so we were glad to see the truck lights finally coming over Burden Hill, two miles away. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z “My mother used to sing to us when we were children. My brother and me. She always said that it didn’t matter what your voice was like so long as you loved the song.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z I took Osh at his word and hoped that the Shearwater was not on its way home now after waiting so long to be fit for the sea again. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z “It does sound too nice for words, I must say. A feather bed and none of those few- mets for ever so long. How long did you say it would take us to get there?” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Eril-Fane had said the problem posed no danger to them, and he could ill imagine that the Tizerkane general would leave his city for so long if it were under threat. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z She sighs, and then waits so long I wonder if she’s going to continue. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z No one mentioned that the pursuit would be so long. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z The Court’s answer was that racial bias would be tolerated—virtually to any degree—so long as no one admitted it. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z She even talked about the leopard that had appeared to her by the water so long ago—if it was a leopard and not a trick of the light. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z My son, who had been gone so long. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z I guess Grandpa had been looked after for so long, he didn’t know how to do for himself. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z “I need help, my boy. I tried to fight them for so long...for so very long. But they were powerful, they took over me...” Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z Because what was so inspiring about the leap was not how the jumper got from one borough to the other, but how he stayed between them for so long.” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z What else had I, who’d known and loved you so long, missed, that he’d discovered after knowing you less than a week? The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z The trick is that you take so long to hit the target, you forget about being hungry. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z It’s just fallen asleep after being in the cast for so long. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z But it made no matter, so long as he lived long enough to take his place by his brother's side and help avenge his father. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z “I’ve never known the Black Tortoise of Winter to stay so long before.” When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z “It’s lucky I studied martial arts for so long. When the Liberation Army woman saw my back bend, she just loved it.” Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z In many countries they’ve been granted equal rights; many people, mainly women, but also men, now realize how wrong it was to tolerate this state of affairs for so long. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z The dream’s been the same for so long, and this new dimension feels a little...invasive. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z The heavy burden I have borne so long now lifts from my soul. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z “Why is your hair so long?” a round-faced girl asked in Japanese. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z But they had already waited so long, what difference could a few hours possibly make? The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z I pacified myself about his whiteness by saying that after all he had been dead so long it couldn’t matter to anyone any more. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z When anyone in the family asks what I'm writing, I usually say, Nothing or A story or A poem and only my mother says, Just so long as you're not writing about our family. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z I thought of Grandma getting married so long ago, bringing the four beautiful trunks full of gifts her mother had sent from Tianjin to Shanghai. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z These baby monkeys were kept in a cage so long, they wouldn't come out when the doors were finally left open. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z "You must have wondered why I finally came north to Winterfell, after so long." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z In a way, it was good that it took them so long to get the tree home. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z "He would say that even a million Dothraki are no threat to the realm, so long as they remain on the other side of the narrow sea," Ned replied calmly. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z It’s a wonder you’ve evaded the government for so long—but you can’t hide now, not when your own family or friends are at risk. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z “Not so long. I thought maybe I was mistook. But ain’t no mistake. Gabriel, what we going to do?” Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z She feels slightly out of place in this gathering of people who have known each other for so long. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z He wondered if he was awake or still sleeping, still in the swift-moving dream in which he had been wrapped so long since the great ride began. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z “You think you’re mighty smart,” she said, and when he continued to laugh at her she said uneasily, “I wonder what’s taking your brother so long. Look, the rain’s stopped.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z And do you remember the deep blatting stroke of the great gong in the Joss House, and how its tone hung in the air so long? East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Not so long ago, the woods must have extended further, because you could see here and there ghostly dead trunks poking out of the soil, most of them broken off only a few feet up. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Those terrible Germans have oppressed and threatened us for so long that the thought of friends and salvation means everything to us! The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z I’ve seen cat whiskers on people in the Capitol before, but none so long. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z “That would make me very sad, my sweet delight... for young and strong as you now seem, you shall not live so long. Not here.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Karen said, her face very serious, “What does that man do in there for so long?” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z He hadn’t meant to get emotional, but he was exhausted and scared, and he’d been lost for so long, he would’ve given anything for some guidance. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z What’s so odd is that even with Frida and the toxoplasmosis and this man who should terrify me for so many reasons, I feel more at home than I have anywhere for so long. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z That voice she had not heard in so long, and it sounded both changed and unchanged. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z The rosebush clusters bloomed joyously, their blushing white crowns illuminating the darkness we had endured for so long. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z When they were laughing and teasing about the baby, Ty'ree didn't care if it ever came, just so long as his mama and daddy could keep on laughing and having a good time. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z It does not matter, the Court declared, why the police are stopping motorists under the Fourth Amendment, so long as some kind of traffic violation gives them an excuse. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z There were a few remaining elderly patients who, having survived so long under his care, were afraid to change doctors. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Well, a person can cry only so long. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Oh, I’m feeling supernaturally good for once—it’s been so long—so good I start blabbing like I haven’t since Brian left. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z “You can call me Ts’eh. That’s my nickname because my Indian name is so long. All of us kids did that.” Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z He hadn’t used that name in so long—he could barely remember how to spell it. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z The small talk and compliments went on so long I was fixing to croak. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z It had been so long since Kaede had felt its warmth that its first touch brought tears to her eyes; she wanted to strip off all her clothes and stand naked in the light. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z When I finally fall quiet, Dean Wilkins is silent for so long I wonder if the line has gone dead. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z She was probably an old, old woman now, still in the same harshness of spirit, singing this song in the tiny house down home which she and Elizabeth had shared so long. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z My war had been so long, my winters so cold. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z She hesitates so long, I ask, “Are you still there?” Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z “I shouldn’t have put up with him so long. It’s my kind heart, you see. People have always told me, ‘Beryl, you’re too good for this world. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z “Four thousand. Have we been alive so long?” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z She was aghast that we had been in legal limbo for so long and thought that five years should have been plenty of time for my mother to get her act together. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z But we all have lived together in this town for so long, I just never thought much about people’s religions before. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z It had been a very long time since Shadow had cried, so long he thought he had forgotten how. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z My legs fall asleep from having them crossed for so long, and my eyes flutter, fighting my desire to keep them closed. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z The next several miles were so long that I didn’t think I would be able to make it. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z I hadn’t had my father to myself in so long. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z With friends like these, he would triumph, as El Patron had triumphed over poverty and death so long ago. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z "Only so long as I was wearing these." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Mr. Aubyn had lived so long with only wild animals for company that he might easily be confused, she added delicately. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Which made Aru think of the words Urvashi had said so long ago when they had visited the Court of the Sky: You must awaken the weapons...go to the Kingdom of Death. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z She’d been stuck in that black hole of a cell for so long. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z "And no harm will be done your Beth, so long as you—" Ser Rodrik never gave him the chance to finish. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z He must not listen, he told himself, he must not hear, so long as he did not hear them he was safe. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z She didn’t like keeping her head down so long. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z “In the bed,” he said, and stopped for so long Milkman was not sure he was going to continue. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z I wasn't sure if I was proud of myself for finally standing up to him, or embarrassed it had taken me so long to do so. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z “I can hardly speak it myself, these days—it’s been so long.” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z This is why people got along without zero for so long. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z “I’ve been baking at home for so long, but if I got on the show, I could learn from the mentors and judges—real, professional bakers.” From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z He was terrified of the feeling, wished it were gone, and knew that it would never go, not so long as he had to be in this house, with Hooper. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z In the granary, unused for so long, I stored away half a bag of rice, two measures of dhal and nearly a pound of chillies. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z It had lasted long, so long, that the return of conscience shook me. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z “They’ve been running us around for so long that there were times when I thought he would never attend school, Principal,” she said. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z The only problem with them was that their titles were so long, it took me forever to write them on my reading log. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z He figures it’s because he’s lived for so long outside of “society.” Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z His back ached from having been pressed so long against something solid, about the size and shape of a small ceramic bird. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z Conner looked at me for so long that I squirmed and buried my face in Lumpy’s fur. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z He lingered so long that Kit was forced to shut the door behind them to keep the chilling draft from the kitchen. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z The men on the Redwyne galleys had grown lax after so long, however, and they had slipped through the cordon smooth as black satin. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z It was hard to remember, because those games seemed so long ago—maybe even before Emma started school. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z It was not so long afterwards that these meetings over cocoa in her parlour came to an end. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z In some towns police were authorized to disable passing cars with ropes, chains, wires, and even bullets, so long as they took reasonable care to avoid gunning down the drivers. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z “It’s fantastic to see him again after so long.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z After so long in darkness, the light stabbed his eyes; he looked away, covering his face with both hands. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z It had been so long since the meeting on the train, and neither of them knew then what the word “blog” meant. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z “I am surprised you have remained here so long,” said Voldemort after a short pause. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z Bono said, “Good to see a man who don’t need the Carnival in Venice, just so long as he’s got a live squirrel and a pile of squash to huck.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z She had lived so long, Mother had told him once, that all the Brandon Starks had become one person in her head. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z “Since I’ve known him. If he had any sense, he would’ve tossed out that romanticized idea of her he’s had for so long and gotten to work doing something useful.” Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z I could read now, play ball, swim, do whatever I wanted, just so long as I didn’t try to stop a fast ball anymore with my head. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z The keeper of the stone would live forever, but so long as he kept it, misfortunes wouldfall on all those he loved one after another in unending rain. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z You might want to ask why so long with this news, well its been out for years in and out of video’s papers, books, magazines, radio, tv, all over the world. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z She’d been gripping it hard for so long the linen cover had left an impression on her palm. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z It seems so long since Hamza and I ran down Aleppo Way to find shoes. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z After fighting so long to keep from bringing me home, Mom was reluctant to take me out again once she did. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z It is not like Calvin would need to stay hidden so long. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z “Within reason, I’ll not bother you to pick things up in here, so long as you treat the rest of the house with respect.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z Realize that you can only stay on the defensive for so long—eventually, you have to take a stand. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z Indeed, so long as they are not permitted to have standards of comparison, they never even become aware that they are oppressed. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z And then she looked at me, looked at me for so long I worried we’d crash into something. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z Why had she put Royal off for so long? The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Nelia Zafón knocked on the door and clasped one of my hands between hers, apologizing for taking so long to stop by and assuring me that everyone was happy to have us here. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z “Yes, good. There’s something very lazy about the way you have loved him blindly for so long without ever criticizing him. You’ve never even accepted that the man is ugly,” Kainene said. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Though it seemed so long ago, he well remembered their conversation about the chess problem. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z “I see, my son. I do see them. Let them sleep. They haven’t closed an eye for so long ... They’re exhausted .. . exhausted . ..” His voice was tender. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z She doesn’t explain why it took her so long. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z Anything so long concealed couldn’t fail to intrigue me. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z “You are Odin, who was sacrificed by himself to himself so long ago.” Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z “Well, so long as you don’t forget you are pregnant,” he said shortly and turned away. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z I have been so long master that I would be master still—or at least that none other should be master of me. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z They acquitted Orestes, and with the words of acquittal the spirit of evil which had haunted his house for so long was banished. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s the kind of silence that goes on for so long that you have no choice but to fill in the blanks and decide what other people are saying for them. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z Thor will finally kill the Midgard serpent, as he has wanted to do for so long. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z "Robert was never a man to leave the battleground so long as a foe remained standing," Ned told him. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z It has been so long since I’ve seen her that when I get to her room I hold my hand up and wave to say hi. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Her voice was sweet and high but she could make it do crazy things and hold notes for so long, like, it made your eyes water. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z Silence greeted my question for so long I started to think I had food in my teeth, until Miss Sarah slowly asked, “You don’t know about Kwaku Anansi?” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z After being shut in for so long, I decided to catch a breath of fresh air. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z He couldn’t deny either that the idea that Sirius was much nearer was reassuring; at least he wouldn’t have to wait so long for a response every time he wrote. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z “We are, all of us, medical emergencies! You must come in now. I have been waiting for so long.” Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z Whit broke out, “What the hell’s takin’ him so long? Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z We kiss and kiss for so long that my jaw aches. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z It was weird being back in the boys’ dorm after so long. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z “I didn’t think we’d be gone so long, but things...didn’t quite go as planned.” Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z A ruling group is a ruling group so long as it can nominate its successors. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z I felt veneration for St. John—veneration so strong that its impetus thrust me at once to the point I had so long shunned. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z “What were you girls doing upstairs for so long?” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z Those who lived by the sword were forced to die by it It was as if everything would lead to sorrow, so long as man refused to forget the past. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z “You’re so smart! I’m surprised they kept you in the remedial class for so long.” Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z I pluck a few blades and roll them in my fingers, wondering why the hell it’s taking them so long to pull out. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z “I am very sorry to have stayed so long. But I like so to talk with » you. “It is very nice to talk again. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z “No. I’ve been lying about myself for so long. I know what it’s like.” Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z “We came here to enjoy our old age in peace, not to think of Tom. He’s been dead so long now, we should try to forget him and everything on Earth.” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z My hands were starting to lose feeling after being bound in the same position for so long. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z His feet and hands were numb from the cold, and his legs were stiff from lying still so long. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z “Neither do I. He loves violence—so long as there’s no danger in it for himself—the way he loves whiskey. He’d join a mob to murder his own grandmother.” Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z “It has been so long since I have had a visitor,” Cersei murmured in a quiet voice as they made their descent. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z After being in Tartarus for so long, he could barely look at Hyperion’s burning golden armor without getting spots in his eyes. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z The captain pointed to Aaron Molete, the youngest of the four of us and a very mild and gentle person, and said, “Why is your hair so long?” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z She had been gone so long that she was afraid I forgot her. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z It was terrifying and energizing to be among the soldiers, after watching them from hiding for so long. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z Tío Pepe once told me about this experiment with monkeys who were caged for so long that when the doors were left open, they wouldn’t come out. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z It had been so long since I’d even wanted a friend that I wasn’t sure I even remembered how to go about making one. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z Who was this college bowl fanatic with no mixer and a fiancé in Vietnam, and why had she taken so long to reveal herself? Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z She had never run so hard for so long. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z “Our prospects look brighter this evening. The mountains, that have so long hemmed us in, seem to be falling away from the river. The river seems to be broadening.” Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z It had been so long, it seemed folly to cling to the hope that Ben Stark was still alive, but Jon Snow was nothing if not stubborn. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z The first soldier was at the wheel, smoking dried leaves rolled in paper and the smoke was pungent and the drive took so long that Ugwu could no longer hold his urge to urinate. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z I try not to blink, but nothing happens for so long that I cave. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z Maybe he’s been in Africa so long he has forgotten that we Christians have our own system of marriage, and it is called Monotony. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z And if he could do that, behind his mask of sarcasm and drunkenness, so convincingly and for so long, what else has he lied about? Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z The car loop volunteer turns to see what’s taking us so long. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z The installations in the square see plenty of action as people are dragged in and punished for offenses so long overlooked we’ve forgotten they are illegal. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z Emma held her breath for so long that her head swam and dots appeared before her eyes. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z I been lying on one place for so long, they finally found me. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z On the way home—with Dad still singing away in the back, extending the word “low” so long he sounded like a mooing cow—the man asked me about school. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z “He doesn’t need to sing a note so long as I see that handsome face, yes, Lord.” Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z He thought of the old woman he’d seen not so long ago, the way she’d seemed to know the jungle called to him. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z ‘How should I know? He’s welcome to go where he will, so long as he pays in the morning. There’s Mr. Took, now: he’s not vanished.’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Sad that it took so long to talk about it. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z “Mercy,” said Sir Meliagrance, “what ails you, Ma’am, to sleep so long?” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z After gazing into the flames so long, it took her a few moments to adjust to the dimness. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z She’d kept to herself for so long that it was hard to remember how to make conversation with someone her own age. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z He took his lips away for breath and heard Bessie say: “Don’t stay away so long from me, hear, honey?” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z He was almost a wolf child, raised on his own for so long that he was ferociously independent, far more so than most twenty year olds. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Aru had lived at the museum for so long, it kept no secrets from her. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z After cutting the dragon free, Minli’s knife was dull and the skin on her fingers and toes was wrinkled from having been in the dragon’s lake of tears for so long. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z I didn’t care where she sent me, so long as Lynn came along. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z Traveling through the handiwork of the fire for so long made an unseeable menace more terrifying. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z On this day that he had dreaded for so long, he had no appetite for anything. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z Now perhaps it was too late, and the Lord would suffer her to die in the darkness in which she had lived so long. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z Nyla lingered so long watching me and Epsilon-5 begin our defoliator project, I didn’t have time to test the samples. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Mary Jackson was connected to so many computers in so many different ways that the only surprising thing about her arrival at Langley was that it had taken so long. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z "About drumsticks," the man said, winking one eye so long I wondered if, like Pila's, his wasn't real either. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z It seemed so long ago, but I still recalled the different names of the dance nights: “Back to School,” “Pens Down,” “Bob Marley Night,” and many more. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z He had crouched so long in the snow that when he tried to move he found that his legs had lost all feeling. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z “Just so long as they do exactly what I say. They know that as well as you do.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z He stared at them so long that he almost hypnotized himself. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z But he was always swearing that he would do better; it was, perhaps, the brutality of his penitence that had kept them together for so long. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z “Boy, have I missed you. Your hair’s getting so long!” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z “Father! I’ve been looking for you for so long . . . Where were you? Did you sleep? How are you feeling?” Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z “Yeah. It’s like, it’s been so long, I don’t know what she would look like if she came back, how long her hair would be. ” Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Not so long when you’re listening to a story, but half a year is a great long while to live through, especially if you are young. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z When we first got together, I thought it might be weird to date a friend, someone who’d known me so long. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z I haven't felt fear in so long that it takes me a second to recognize it. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z “No, it is too far. I cannot wait so long.” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z “The thing I love about you, Bull, is your radiant love of mankind. Sometimes when you talk I wonder how two people so different could be married so long.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z However, the calculations required to find out whether or not there were any infinities left uncanceled were so long and difficult that no one was prepared to undertake them. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z It had been so long since I’d felt the comfort of another’s warmth that I wasn’t sure what to do. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z Perhaps after driving so long, they would have found any bit of ground fabulously unmoving. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z For so long, I had kept up my barriers. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Then, just as instantly, his calm returned as he spoke of his frustration that the case wore on for so long. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Almost unquestionably the eagles so long studied by Mr. Broley were predominantly fish eaters. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z "I care nothing for the size of its cabins or the quality of its appointments, so long as it is swift and safe. I wish to leave at once." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Her voice is still rising from where it has been under her surface for so long. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z I could not understand what was taking so long for Adele to get us back. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z “Not even in Haiti do girls my age wear their skirts so long, unless they’ve devoted their lives to being a virgin,” I say. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z The train was gone so quickly that it was hard to imagine that everybody had waited so long for so little. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “I haven’t heard Frank laugh so much for ever so long,” said Grace to Amy, as they sat discussing dolls and making tea sets out of the acorn cups. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z It occurred to Lina that this might be what her grandmother had been talking about for so long. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z I had waited so long for this moment that I wanted to savor it, but I also didn’t want to give him a chance to escape. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “How has he been able to stay here so long without the PSFs catching on?” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z Because that’s what I was doing—hating myself for waiting so long. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z Maybe, flying around all day, it had found a friendlier window, one that didn’t make it wait so long. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z “It seems so long, so much longer than ten days.” Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z Breathing heavily, he said, “I don’t know what’s come over me to make me tolerate such blatant insubordination for so long. You must have bewitched me, or else I must be going mad.” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z I don’t know what took me so long to try it. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z “It’s been so long, I didn’t recognize you in this light. Good seein’ you again. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z The daily prayers were a torment and my knees became sore from kneeling so long and often. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z The line was so long that it wound all around the big, grassy courtyard, all around the tall barbed-wire fence and snaked all the way down the wide, tarred road. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z The spine was so long and thick that Hawkbit, who happened to be close by, woke Speedwell to have a look at it. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z It was summer, and tryouts were two months away, but the coach, Kanue learned, would let kids join summer practice so long as they understood that they weren’t guaranteed a spot on the roster. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z The law said they could not own land unless they became citizens; it also said they could not become citizens so long as they were Japanese. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Mr. Miller apologized for taking so long to respond, but then gave his phone number and said I could call him with my questions about Marcus’s case. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z “Miss Eliza Bennet, let me persuade you to follow my example, and take a turn about the room. I assure you it is very refreshing after sitting so long in one attitude.” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z We traveled slowly, stopping often to rest because our arms were not used to carrying so much weight for so long. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z Though I wanted to meet my new brothers, I was worried about being alone with the Courters for so long—and getting enough regular food to eat. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z When he had worked so long that the numbers danced in front of his eyes, he switched to other parts of the book. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z The woman behind us, with a full cart, throws up her arms and goes, “What is taking so long?” Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z No, it cannot have been so long as that. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z She’s been my friend for so long, it feels wrong passing by her and pretending we don’t know each other. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z He lay there motionless, for so long a time that Gimli wondered if he had swooned or fallen asleep again. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z What I liked most was the absolute silence inside my head and heart—silence I had not enjoyed for so long. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I always thought it could of been because he and Jeremiah had been together so long. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He would accept anything and anyone, so long as he could earn a living to help his family. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z “I just haven’t seen Melissa’s face in so long, and now I’m looking at three versions of it and it’s so...” Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z “Asleep in my chambers. Her Grace does not allow Ghost in her presence. She claims he scares the princess. And so long as Borroq and his boar are about, I dare not let him loose.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z He remembered that he played during the summers at Tres Marias, but it was all so long ago that memory had almost erased it, and he did not recognize the place. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Though officials lengthened the time between races considerably, the wagering lines were so long that many bettors never caught a glimpse of a pari-mutuel window. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z He wrote to Giovanni Fogliani that, since he had been away from home for so long, he wanted both to come to see him and his city and to check his inheritance. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z We stood so long my pants dried out. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z I gave Alejandro my notice, and he kind of looked at me like, What took you so long? Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z He’d been running Thunder to the wrong marker for months, running him so hard and so long that Thunder had just wasted away to nothing. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z Tell me, Lord, how could you leave a lass so long so lone that she could find her way to me? The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z “It was raw and cold for oh so long. Now it’s becoming lovely, and people, like nature, sometimes thaw out when the sun shines.” Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z We Ruh are not meant to stay in one place for so long. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z It didn’t seem possible he could have survived so long without suffocating. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z “At any rate we could drag and push it like that so long as it was downhill.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z “Although it’s been so long since we’ve seen port, I wouldn’t be surprised if the ropes have evolved into higher forms of life.” Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z He hadn’t anticipated how difficult it would be to see his homeland for the first time in so long. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z They had only just finished when the bell rang for the afternoon’s double Potions and they beat the familiar path down to the dungeon classroom that had, for so long, been Snape’s. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z I listened for so long while the grown-ups argued in loud whispers about calling the police that my bath water turned cold. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The “boys” would only be patient so long with Rachel’s “tinkle.” Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z As the food filled my plate and the soldiers and former prisoners around me began to eat, I remembered that day in Kraków so long ago, the day the war had begun. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z Being put under general anesthetic for so long presents a risk of brain damage. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z Me: Look on the bright side-your legs will be so long that one of your steps will be the same as thirty or forty of a regular person’s. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z “I’m so sorry I go on so long. Couldn't my husband give me the gas?” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z He fumbled for so long that Lord Roke thought the dawn would break before he got the catch undone, but finally he lifted the locket gently away and stood up. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z We’ve been at the restaurant so long that most of the people who were here when we first came in are gone and a whole new crowd has come. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z I had waited so long for this day. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Her doctor’s brain struggles to reconcile what she’s believed for so long against the evidence of too many other doctors, too many tests. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z The next morning the old man has the two hauled up and lectures and jaws at them so long that in the end they consent. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z Otherwise I have no doubt you would have done so long ago and at some length. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z But everyone knew that an Indian summer could only last so long. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z "Joffrey is as safe with me as he is with you," he assured her, "but so long as the boy feels threatened, he'll be more inclined to listen." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z “It was a really easy fix actually. I kind of can’t believe you guys left it like that for so long.” Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z Their ruin is deferred only so long as an attack is deferred. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z He had, like David Copperfield, been so long on his own that the ways of his peers were alien. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Her eyes landed on Vivian, a girl with stick-straight black hair so long it reached the tops of her khakis’ pockets. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z “There is no hope of justice so long as these conditions are permitted to remain,” the investigator concluded. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z A man named Klipspringer was there so often and so long that he became known as "the boarder"--I doubt if he had any other home. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z According to the baroque rules that govern fey tongues, everything he said was true enough, so long as you concentrate only on the words. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z He had worked so hard, and so long, for all the winter... Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z Never had he seen a fellow drink so much, stay drunk so long. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z He had waited so long, surely the gods would grant him a few more years, enough time to see the boy he’d called a son seated on the Iron Throne. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Then he shook my hand and held it so long I didn’t know how to get it loose. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z "These girls have lived so long away, they have gotten American ways." How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z The silence had drawn out for so long that I couldn’t remember what she’d asked me. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z I was already getting dizzy from standing up so long. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z For so long, there was no one I trusted less. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Waiting to reveal what had been hidden and festering for so long. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z Now I know my being a carer so long isn’t necessarily because they think I’m fantastic at what I do. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z It went down smoothly, but after a while I lost interest in eating because it took so long to choke down the food. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z She had imagined her parents’ appearance for so long, she didn’t want the image destroyed. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The only thing hard about it was the fact that he had me read the book so long ago, and it was difficult to remember. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z “It happened so long ago. I didn’t want to upset you.” The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Every day he’d bring home three herrings and a loaf of bread — but sometimes the herrings had been dead so long we couldn’t eat ’em. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z I gathered my books, realizing I was stiff from sitting still so long. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z I can almost hear them asking, What took you so long? Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z It’s been so long that it feels like I may never walk again. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z "It's all right," Bill said, "so long as you weren't bored." The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z “Sorry that took so long!” she says, handing over my salad. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z Her hair was now so long it swept the floor, wiping up her tears. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z For so long all I saw was the strength, standing out like the wiry muscles in her arms or the black ink marking her collarbone with flight. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z “I think it was a boarding school in D.C. It seems like so long ago.” The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z I wait so long, I'm sure he forgot. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z I find a seat next to a table of serious, frowning, silver-haired men who use words so long I’m surprised they don’t choke. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z “Better, now that you are here,” she said, remembering sadly that day that seemed so long ago. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z I don’t know why we waited so long before getting under way. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z It’s been so long since I went to school. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z It was the best sled they had ever made, and it was so long that all three of them could sit on it, one behind the other. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z It's amazing that after so long here, we all seem new to each other. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z And I like really little spaces, so long as there is no one else in them with me. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z I’d never been on so long a trip in my life. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Abby and I sit like that for so long my arm starts to prickle. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z Her lashes are so long I can’t tell where her eyes are focused. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z If he touched me again, all the feelings I’d kept dammed for so long might come rushing to the forefront. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z “Exactly. We’ve been living in the wild or in the settlements so long. It brings back memories.” The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z He tries again when I remain quiet for so long. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z A little later it said, So long forever, old fellows and gals, so long forever old sweethearts and pals—God bless ’em—And so on. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Celia doubts that these gatherings would have continued so long after the circus began without the Burgess sisters’ infectious bubbling laughter. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Because I was leaving it, my sass’s house, where for so long I had felt unwelcome, now seemed like home. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z Harry was standing stock-still as waves of shock crashed over him, wave after wave, obliterating everything except the information that had been kept from him for so long... Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z “And first I had to throw the covers over Constance. You were gone so long, she fell asleep on Sticky’s bed. I meant to keep guard, but I guess I nodded off.” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z She crouched down—and remembered the zango, the charm against witchcraft that Masvita had tied around her arm so long ago. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z She hesitated so long that Lac glanced up from the stain on his coat to study her face. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z They were the same eyes that Pinmei had seen through the crack in the gang so long ago. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z There was a throne room, a vast hall with a banquet table so long it could seat thirty, a library, a portrait gallery. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z “He has been sitting up so long for Amaka to paint him. It’s a miracle. Our Lady is faithful.” Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z His sincerity had rubbed me raw, had peeled back the stubborn layers of anger I’d lived in for so long. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z Because they are so long lived, atoms really get around. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Joana then whispered the words I had waited so long to hear. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z My mom and I have shared the same closed space and breathed the same filtered air for so long that it’s strange being here without her. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z In the picture Grandpa Bobby’s curly hair was so long, it looked like a blond Afro. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z Some spent so long outside of their own heads that they couldn’t function right when they finally had to return their own. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z With the act’s passage, African Americans finally gained the full political power so long denied them. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z “Maybe, but it was so long ago. I don’t know.” I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Then I’d like to go for a walk, in a garden with some trees, watch their colors, watch the birds, take in the nature that I haven’t seen in so long now. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z He wanted the horses to carry equal weights, proposing 126 pounds but leaving himself open to any weight Riddle wanted, so long as both horses carried the same. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z “What took you so long? I almost started aging.” Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z The battle of living things against cancer began so long ago that its origin is lost in time. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z “I don’t know. I'm surprised that he’s been gone so long.” Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z I felt strangely sad to leave the world of the Negro after having shared it so long—almost as though I were fleeing my share of his pain and heartache. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z I had several reasons for wanting to go to England, apart from my desire to see the country I had so long read and heard about. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Suppose she got there and stayed so long that it was dark when she was ready to leave and Father Franco told her to spend the night there. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z The prince was quiet for so long after my question that I worried I’d offended him. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z I do not know why I waited for so long, or what made me want to write to him then. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z "Not in this light so long as we stay quite still," answered Bree. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z The prohibition has been drilled into children for so long that they have made it into a jump-rope rhyme: Don’t say ain’t or your mother will faint. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Later, though, he started to take Dickon and leave me at home, and he no longer cared whether I sat through his audiences, so long as Dickon was there. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z “I heard what they said. Buck and Troy. They’ve been on me for so long it’s hard to remember a time when they weren’t.” Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z He had been in jail so long that talking out of the side of his mouth just came naturally. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z Mere debauchery did not matter very much, so long as it was furtive and joyless, and only involved the women of a submerged and despised class. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z But God—and I felt this even then, so long ago, on that tremendous floor, unwillingly—is white. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z The day she bought that book for Fredde: the bookseller took so long to wrap it. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Having so long ago exited his life as a father, he had now, at long last, entered it again. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z His mouth is on me, his hands, I can’t wait and he’s moving, already, love, it’s been so long, I’m alive in my skin, again, arms around him, falling and water softly everywhere, never-ending. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z Estraven had said that a tent such as ours would house us pretty comfortably in any weather at all, so long as we kept it dry inside. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z Regular Communication Hey, Mom, I’m good, though my toe nails have grown so long that my hooves hurt bad. Booked 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z Why did those coastal Germans wait so long, and what led them finally to change their minds? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z These were the beings who had fallen in love with human women, with the daughters of men, so long ago. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Maybe she's starting to go mad from being gray for so long. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z “I’m the odd one out, I’m afraid. My mom’s family is German, and I think my dad's family was Scottish or something, but it was so long ago nobody knows for sure.” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z And yet there was truth in it; this was the real chaos which he thought he was describing—so long ago it seemed now . Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z To go for so long without prey and suddenly to have so many—his pent-up hunting instinct was lashing out with a vengeance. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Why did they take so long to find out about you? Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Mom and Dad still don’t know I’m in New York, and Libby can only cover for me so long. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z When I did, she stared at me for so long that I began to feel the same way I did when the sluggers examined me. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z It’s still strange to see him here, in this place that’s been secret for so long. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z There’s something refreshing about a beautiful girl’s use of “profanity” after living in the land of Southern Etiquette and debutantes for so long. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z Each minute was so long that in it there was ample time for contemplation and enquiry. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Neither of them moved for so long that Sully and Anton quieted down. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z She would not cry, it was ridiculous to cry after so long, but her eyes were filling with tears and there was a boulder in her chest and a stinging in her throat. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z “After so long a silence, it is unlikely our prayers will be answered. I have asked his best surviving friend to do the final honors.” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z She had maintained her strength in the face of all this for so long that we had come to take it for granted, but she wasn’t bulletproof. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z Our household had been caught unprepared, so long had the heat hung over us like a suffocating shroud. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z His cheeks itched and tingled from being windblown for so long. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z She knew that Kaz and the others were watching and that she was making an idiot of herself, but after so long he was finally here, in front of her, and so very broken. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Matthias stepped out of hiding, rubbing his hands—it had been a strain holding the branch back for so long. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z Anyway, so long as the project consisted of talk, it did not seem quite real to her. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z If we hadn't sat in the sun so long Mr. Norton would not have needed whiskey and I wouldn't have gone to the Golden Day. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z He had been trying to be so American for so long! A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z The old dame who had been their nurse fetched dry jerkins out of a press, and scolded them for retching their deaths, and denounced Sir Ector for keeping on so long. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z It's silent for so long that I'm convinced she's not going to answer. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Large devilfish are dangerous if you are in the sea, for their arms are so long as a man, and they can quickly wrap them around you. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z I thought back to what Annabeth had said at the Denver diner, so long ago: Ares has strength. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z The horse was gone for so long that everyone on the backstretch assumed he had died. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Her mouth watered instantly; it had been so long since she had tasted something sweet that she wanted to upend the entire jar into her mouth. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z It’s been so long since I laughed, and it feels amazing. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z I stand, frozen in place as he looks up and our eyes lock, the familiar blue that I’ve dreamed about for so long almost knocking me off my feet. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z Just so long as I’m not the one being hanged.” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z He stayed in the car for so long that Mark had to walk over and open the door. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z My father said it was because she had been deprived of learning for so long. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z The “virtual reality”they had been promised for so long was finally here, and it was even better than they’d imagined. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z For the dormant mud frogs we had been for so long. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z Even the air shimmered with excitement, and shutters closed for many years were thrown open to let the brilliant sunlight shine where it hadn’t shone in so long. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z Nhamo had been away from humans so long, she felt like a wild animal who might be hunted instead of welcomed. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z I did not intend to be her guest for so long! Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z As for him ‘feeling dead,’ that’s probably just a consequence of his being gone from your life for so long. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z “But I think the Chicago experiment, in particular, has been a success for so long that they’ll be a little reluctant to just ditch it now. It was the first one with factions.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z “Do you wish me to stay so long?” Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z And so she stood there, unable to hear his words so long as he was gripping her fingers. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Olanna had been expecting the harsh sound for so long that a prescient shiver went through her just before she heard it. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Ralph had waited so long to run that excitement had drained out of him, leaving him heavy with dread. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z “Hermanitashe says. Little sister. The word comforted me for so long whenever I read it on my precious piece of paper. Now it stabs at me. “ The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The Athena Parthenos had been protecting the demigods, holding back the wrath of the earth, but even Athena’s might could only last so long against a primordial goddess. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Thor raised the horn to his lips and he drank, and he drank like a god drinks, drank so long and so deeply that Loki and Thialfi simply stared at him in astonishment. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z Just so long as you don’t call me Samson. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z I never imagined I was going to live as long as I have and that they’d have to wait so long for me. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z It seemed so long ago now, yet he remembered it with absolute clarity. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z "Are you sure your wife doesn't understand English, I mean, after living here so long?" The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z All the same, I was overcome with a strange sadness, at odds with the relief I had expected to feel, now that the threat which had hung over me for so long was removed. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z And some of the stars don’t even exist anymore because their light has taken so long to get to us that they are already dead, or they have exploded and collapsed into red dwarfs. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z His hair is so long he could braid it like a girl’s. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z And tonight, on the fifteenth day of the eighth moon, I also remember what I asked the Moon Lady so long ago. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s been so long since I thought of Leticia that it surprises me to hear myself say her name. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z “It seems so long to wait, so hard to do. I want to fly away at once, as those swallows fly, and go in at that splendid gate.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z “You must stay and dine with me, Robert. You see I am all alone, and it is so long since I have seen you. There is so much I want to ask you.” The Awakening 1899-04-22T00:00:00Z She would squeeze them so long that her forearms hurt. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z And because I remained quiet for so long now my daughter does not hear me. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Sometimes he worked so long and late he never got back to the bed he bunked in. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Rufus wearing my glasses is a welcome intimacy, like we’ve known each other for so long that this kind of silliness comes easily to us. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z Like my own mom—gone so long—will walk into the room behind me. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z “It took us so long to find you, and the rehearsals start soon.” The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Had McNaughton used some trick out of a spy novel, like laying a strand of hair over the binder—a strand that would remain in place only so long as the binder was not touched? Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z He fumbled around so long that Traft began to rock on his feet. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z “Your hair is getting so long. Have you ever tried a messy bun?” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z Bridges over water that were so big, so long, they had to be constructed from both sides. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z She had never seen hair so long, so black, so thick. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z It certainly wasn’t like the one she had labored on in Suzuki class so long and with so little result. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Rob had his feet up on the dashboard, partly actin’ silly, and partly ’cause his legs was so long that they got cramped in that little car of Andy’s. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z When I found myself alone, I’d stop and look for a view—out of a window, say, or through a doorway into a room—any view so long as there were no people in it. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z But Chris was waiting on me, and really, it would take me so long to get back, what could I do for them now? Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z I heard they both confessed right away, and I figured it was because Casey didn’t want it coming out in his trial about how he’d been chasing after Joey for so long. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z The friendship, so long in storage, had never completely died. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z It has not become any easier for me, seeing him here, even after so long. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z I looked out the window as we drove, counting the blackened hulks of cars on the roadside, some left for so long they were covered with reddish rust. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z It took so long for starlight to reach me in the sluggers’ ship orbiting Earth that some of those stars were already dead. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z But I had spent so long on the other side of a computer monitor from him, watching him like an episode of Star Trek. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z But they would tire soon; they could only keep up the fight, use magic, for so long. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z Frey will die missing and regretting the loss of the sword he gave to Skirnir so long ago, for love of Gerd. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z Once, not so long before we all got to Hailsham, a boy had had a big row with his friends and run off beyond the Hailsham boundaries. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z The girl could not believe that the family would be leaving the place where they had lived for so long and of which she felt so fond. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z Very few castaways can claim to have survived so long at sea as Mr. Patel, and none in the company of an adult Bengal tiger. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z And, because the shooting was unpremeditated, they were all off the hook, so long as they kept their mouths shut. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The question is: What took him so long? Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z These kids had been together for so long that they didn’t really notice. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z Even if I push furniture in front of the door, that will only keep him out for so long, and this time there’s no Doctorita down the hall. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Father worked as a handyman or an all-around mechanic when he could, but he would cut firewood or do almost anything so long as it was legal and it paid. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z What was it his mother had said so long ago? Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z When Emma had been holding her breath for so long that she swayed with dizziness and her eyelids sagged down over her eyes, she finally thought, We just need to buy more time. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z I guess I’d been reading newspaper stories about it and hearing people shout over the whole thing for so long that I didn’t listen anymore—it just went in one ear and out the other. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Looking around this untouched room at the heart of the house, I understand the grief that made him lock it up for so long. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Captain Newport says the fevers gripped us because we stayed so long in the fog and cold of England’s winter. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z The dwarf held his breath again, this time so long that his face turned blue and his ears trembled. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z In fact, the days were so long that it sometimes seemed as if each one was a year. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z I’m sorry it took me so long to tell you, but this isn’t easy. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z We left it on so long that the brown grass turned into a big slippery puddle and I wondered if the governor himself might come and tell us off. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z “From being unconscious so long, more than anything else.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z "That was for taking so long to call me yesterday!" Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z It was exaggerated; I certainly hadn’t been censored out of the Karhidish news, at least so long as Estraven was in power. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z I am powerless to move so long as they are there. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z I got the feeling he didn’t want to make a scene, but Annabeth was really pushing it, sitting at my table so long. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z She didn’t usually hesitate so long before opening a book, but she was afraid of what was waiting for her inside this one. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z He could handle a basketball with remarkable dexterity for one who had abandoned the court so long ago. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z I never knew grown-ups to stay excited for so long and I wondered when the spell would break. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z What was thirty minutes, after he had waited so long for this moment? Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z “It’s just really frustrating for me. I’ve never had a person hold out so long, you know?” Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z Then he brought up the fist of his free hand to punch me once, and again as the patroller had done so long ago. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z Then I see him do the same thing he did so long ago on the ship the day Master Wingfield ordered him arrested. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z She’s been dead so long and Diana’s only twelve like me. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z “Your hair is beautiful, so long and thick and blond—almost white.” The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z “It is all very well for you to keep on mentioning that, my dear Grummore,” exclaimed King Pellinore petulantly, “but who is this King, what, that is to live so long, what, accordin’ to you?” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z I am taken with how beautiful she is and feel shame that I have withheld a treasured word for so long. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z It was the sweetest sound I had heard in so long. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z “We are only safe here for so long,” Marcus says eventually. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z “I would hate to move after living in a place for so long.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z Jamie stares at the painting for so long that I think the room actually starts to get darker. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z It demands great force and great cunning continually to assault the mighty and indifferent fortress of white supremacy, as Negroes in this country have done so long. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z The Greek was rough going but I had a hangover, too, and I’d been at it so long that the letters didn’t even look like letters but something else, indecipherable, bird footprints on sand. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Indeed, the process of eking out those new notes took so long that we don’t even know in which century it happened. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Our team has been so good for so long under Coach, he has a lot of power around here. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Not so hard I would die, and not so little I would be punished, as Moshe had told me so long ago. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z Naomi was exhausted and all but cross-eyed from concentrating for so long. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Jhogo was gone so long that Dany feared him lost, but finally when they had all but ceased to look for him, he came riding up from the southeast. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z The papers were so long; it was unbelievable how much news there was every day. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z It was the price of what I’d wanted for so long. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z The sun and moon and stars had been gone so long that Asha was starting to wonder whether she had dreamed them. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The prosecutor is also free to file more charges against a defendant than can realistically be proven in court, so long as probable cause arguably exists. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z “This I have not heard in so long!” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z He breathed for so long I thought he might pass out. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z When choosing the first year of a calendar, it really doesn’t matter which year is chosen, so long as everything is consistent after that. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z If Uncle Drum wanted to see Calvin maybe he should not have sat so long at the diner. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z This one was as thin as a wisp of air, and had struggled for so long just to be. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z Truth was, he was wondering what was taking Ernie so long too. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z “I didn’t expect this to go on so long. I’d best be on my way or poor Elise will be getting a trifle warm.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z But our uncle, who had been wallowing in his misfortune for so long after losing his farm up north, isn’t wallowing anymore. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z “Let them come. This place can stand against twenty times our number, so long as we are well provisioned. And you say there is a way in and out by sea?” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z My granddaughter once asked me how I managed to live alone for so long far removed from civilization. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z That afternoon they finally saw it—the place they had dreamed of for so long. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z If the girl was Arya, the boy was Bran himself, and he had never worn his hair so long. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z He used to do that when we were little and fighting because he was bigger and his arms were so long that I could kick and hit and only catch air. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z Of course, she didn’t say it in the sense of you shouldn't have...kept me waiting so long, the way most people did. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z She’d been thinking about this for so long, and now it was finally here. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z “I feel like I’ve been holding on to it until the rightful owner came along, and it looks to me like he’s finally shown up. What took you so long, child?” Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z “They can wear any color cloak they choose, so long as they obey my officers as they would your own.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z There are plans about their house, and telling Axel the truth about staying away so long. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z “I’m so proud of you—all three of you! Sit down—and let me just look at you! It’s been so long since we were all together!” Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z It is remarkable that, so long after the ‘linguistic turn’, the basic history of some key words/concepts which make the scientific enterprise possible remains to be written. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Morning, it was morning, and it was the very same song she remembered from that other island, so long ago. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z And isn't it wonderful he is here when he was gone so long and everybody thought he might never come home again? Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z She probably wondered what was taking me so long. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z Doesn’t talking to people for so long wear them out? Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z I say, “Nice to see you again. After so long.” The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z He has been around so long, he's practically an old friend to some of them. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z The house was much warmer than the bunkhouse, and the timber floors weren’t nearly as rough, as if David’s parents had lived there so long, their feet had worn them smooth. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z His legs were sore from remaining rigid for so long. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z Each target got smaller the farther back it was placed, and because the room was so long, the final target was nearly seventy yards away. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z He kept at it so long and remained so serious he finally convinced me. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z What do you say to someone you haven’t spoken to in so long? Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Fencing had been a part of my life for so long now. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z This opportunity, therefore, must not be allowed to pass by, so that Italy may behold her redeemer after so long a time. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z “You are free to loathe or to love, so long as you go.” Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z Instead, I cleared a space in the center of my room and practiced the crab pose for so long the carpet began to burn my palms. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z True, his nose is long but not so long, his hair dark but surely not so dark, his skin pale but certainly not so pale. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z How is it possible for Donay to have worked so long and never make money? Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Because the old mosquito—and with it the disease—had been absent so long, hardly anyone had built up an immunity to yellow fever. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z “I’ve been holding that button so long my thumb is going to fall off.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z My neck was a little stiff from resting my chin on the back of the chair for so long. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z The smell it used to have is almost gone, it’s been so long since he slept on it. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z “What took you so long to get up here, anyway? Paying court to your bevy of maidens?” An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z Seemed like forever to me, but it wasn’t so long before Mrs. Little waved me over. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Emmett had stayed at Henrietta’s so long, he had his own bed in the hallway at the top of the stairs. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z A thought hits me, and I'm amazed the question's taken so long to surface. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z That is why I was so long inside the henhouse. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z Every year, they go so long I swear I can see his ghost rise up from the dead and take his seat right there in the preacher’s pulpit. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z I was not opposing the authorities but mediating between my own people and the men I had so long fought against. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Her old bracelet was too big for her wrist, but after being away from it for so long, she refused to remove it. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z She is a happier Allys than the one I met so long ago. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z “The gods are angry at us for being gone so long,” she chanted. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z “I didn’t know what to make of that night. Everything that happened. I’d liked her for so long from far away, but I never had a chance to tell her.” Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z Despite his lead codpiece, the dust—undoubtedly—filtered in and at him, brought him daily, so long as he failed to emigrate, its little load of befouling filth. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z I stand but have been sitting so long lumped up there, my legs give. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z “We’d been in Detroit for so long, and he just wanted to move somewhere warm.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z Some things have been waiting here so long, I believe, they have many layers of dust upon them. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z The potential market was big—worldwide, as many as 750,000 people suffered from MDR, and treating all of them would require a significant quantity of drugs, because treatment lasted so long. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z The one I had seen was so long that the engine moved it very slowly and I was sure I could get aboard it. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z As usual, playing with Lego lasted only so long. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I guess I understood all that, but I still didn’t understand why he had waited so long to show me what was in the spice box, and I said as much. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z He had gone so long without removing his work boots, that when he took them off, the skin of his feet came off with them. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z But whether that was the product of some sense of decency or their classmates simply having moved on after so long, Lydia couldn’t say. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z It was so simple, and so obvious, that he couldn’t believe it had taken so long — Sirius. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z It was unusual for it to be gone so long because Basta didn’t like to be away from the village for any length of time. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z Faint from standing so long, my arms aching from being tied, I immediately sat down. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z We climb out, drowsy after sitting for so long. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z I’m surprised by this; I’ve been discouraged from having such feelings for so long that I no longer have them. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z I thanked all those in the ANC and the democratic movement who had worked so hard for so long. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z It seems so long ago that we lived there now, I’m not even sure I want to anymore. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z “Just so long as you promise not to cook meatloaf.” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z A memory tugged at Chess’s brain, one that was so painful and from so long ago that he could only reassemble bits and pieces of it. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z After living together for so long, the two of them alone in one tiny room, they’ve ended up looking like each other. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z He continued to do just that, maybe because he had carried the memories on his back for so long, he was afraid their weight would crush him. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Hazel stared at the girl and her pale, proud parents, stared so long that Susan noticed. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z She looked directly at Pinmei, and the love and longing Pinmei had carried for so long melted in her like a piece of ice in warm tea. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z Glumly, the secretary nodded so long to Flossie and left the room. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z A lot of things could only last so long. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z “I’m sorry. I just was worried because I haven’t seen him for so long.” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z He had been holding on to this information for ever so long. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z Either they were bulbs she had already planted or they had been in the sack so long they had germinated. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z “And you will continue to, so long as you remain obedient. Listen to me, boy.” Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z “It’s been so long,” she gasps, “since I’ve seen anything pretty.” Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z “Octavian,” he whispered, clutching my shoulder, his eyes heavy with impendant tears, “I have wished for so long to show these to you.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z Though she still has a dissertation to write, still has an adviser to monitor her progress, she feels unmoored already, somehow beyond the world that has defined and structured and limited her for so long. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z He had a string of girlfriends, even though his fingernails were so long that they curled. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z “You were gone so long, I started to wonder if you were coming back at all.” King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z He says, “Well, you’re probably just used to it from staring at that drunk guy for so long today.” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z We walked so far and for so long, we almost dropped Pita a couple of times before we reached the crest of the cerro. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z I had not heard words spoken for so long that they sounded strange to me, yet they were good to hear, even though it was an enemy who spoke them. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z It seemed like so long ago, but I did have a fuzzy memory of there being another Latin teacher my first week at Yancy. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z “But why did you wait so long to come forward?” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z We lay our foreheads and our cheeks against the Long Wall and cried like the women who had come here looking for their men so long building the wall. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Either was fine with him, so long as they did not sit down to talk for a day and a night. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z The mouth was wide open and ripped at the corners as though she had choked a little in giving up the tremendous vitality she had stored so long. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z At the same time, Miss Watson was giving me more homework than I’d ever had before, and it took me so long to get through it. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z Nothing to be scared of, so long as I stay in the boat and trust the compass. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z “What took you so long to get here?” asked Pong. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z Piper and I had been together for so long now that we barely talked any more than we had to. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z She hasn’t worn her shoes in so long they’re awkward on her feet. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z I could put anything in my mouth, chew it and swallow it—delicious, foul or plain—so long as it wasn’t salty. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z She was start-ing to feel dizzy from staring upward so long. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z “But it never fills the void I have felt for so long.” Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z “That’s the wrong one, you dozy idiot! Capricorn wants to see the girl, and I'll tell him why he's had to wait so long.” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z Even if it may derail everything he and Mother have worked toward for so long. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z “Sorry I was gone for so long,” her mother said. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z When I met Ekman, he sat in his office and began running through the action-unit configurations he had learned so long ago. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z She’d kept that vision of the circular room to herself for so long, now she found it impossible to talk about. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z “I’m sorry for being gone so long,” she said. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z I hadn't even thought about it for so long. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z I’d been in the dark so long I was still craving it, and I just wanted to lie down somewhere halfway quiet and halfway dark and go back to imagining Margo. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z Longclaw was not so long or heavy a sword as his father's Ice, but it was Valyrian steel all the same. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z It was so long ago when I was small and a part of a happy family. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z Even though it’s only been less than four months, it seems so long ago. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z I drove through the guilt of leaving Mother for so long, knowing that Doctor Neal was coming by that afternoon and Daddy would be home all day with her. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Whatever was going on with me, it didn’t help that my days were so long and my routine so regimented. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z The problem was, it had been so long since Leo had had a family, he couldn’t even remember how it felt. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z I’ve kept this secret for so long—a decade, more than a third of my life. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z For so long, the only things we had to read were German signs and posters, with those awful caricatures of imaginary Jews. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z “Why have you dawdled so long before paying us a visit?” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z His teeth were all sharp and so long they barely fit into his mouth. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z It was so long, it could barely maneuver in the congested streets of Manhattan. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z “What took you so long? Get lost on your way home?” Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z “But, baby, the truth is Jack’s been here for so long, we weren’t expecting this, either.” Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z "Command it? But . . ." "Our honor means no more than our lives, so long as the realm is safe. Are you a man of the Night's Watch?" A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z "Come on, beat me, daddy—you—you big black bruiser. What's taking you so long?" she said. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Rickon was to his right, his mop of shaggy auburn hair grown so long that it brushed his ermine mantle. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Today he wore flashing cloth-of-silver, with dagged sleeves so long the ends of them pooled on the floor. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Neel liked hearing his mother make music again—she had been sick for so long, her temperature raging until she hardly recognized them. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z Many of the children on this train have been at the Children’s Aid for so long that they have no memories of their mothers. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z Everything began to feel right again, so long as Don Hume was in at stroke. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Romans who had been loyal to Mark Antony for so long felt angry and cheated, but it was nothing compared with the betrayal to come. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z The case had gone on so long already that it did not seem to matter if we stretched it out even further. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Keep them shut so long, I don’t know if Jasmine has left me standing alone in that hall. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z My belly is free and my back is free for the first time in so long. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z He nodded for so long I wondered if he’d forgotten what I actually asked. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z I kept my eyes focused on the bleak, unpainted spectator stands, abandoned for so long that tiny plants had started to push their green heads through the cracks in the cement. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z They talk about the finances, a subject that has agitated Vincent for so long. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z “You have grown fast since the day we were married, and that not so long ago.” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z I nudge my foot against Willem's, and he easily slips the chain back into place, sighing like he's sorry his broken bicycle held us up for so long. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z She wants to know what took me so long. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z It seems so long ago, although barely a week has passed since that day. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z They were silent for so long that Olanna felt she had to apologize. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z And when she gained the privacy of her own litde shack she stayed on her knees so long she forgot she was there herself. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z What is concerned here is not the morale of the masses, whose attitude is unimportant so long as they are kept steadily at work, but the morale of the Party itself. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z He stares so long I find myself casting furtive glances at the one-way glass, hoping for some direction from Haymitch, but my earpiece stays silent. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z The windows of the cabin stayed steamed up almost all day, the kettle had boiled so long. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z “Everybody in Lacks Town kin to Henrietta, but she been gone so long, even her memory pretty much dead now,” he said. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z “Our master has been fighting in France for so long,” I said, “I’ve never seen him.” Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z “But how,” said I, “can it have remained so long undiscovered, when there is a sure index to it if men will but take the trouble to look?” Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z Course, it’s been so long since we was here, I can’t tell for certain.” Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z He’s quiet for so long that I think he must not have heard my question. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z Violet doesn’t care what color it is, so long as under their chins that avenue of no-question-about-it satin cools their lava forever. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z I soon found out this much:—terror can be endured so long as a man simply ducks;—but it kills, if a man thinks about it. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z “I will help you so long as I am not the only one. I say this as much for your sake as for mine.” The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z I had told him I was searching for my keys, that’s what had taken me so long in the car, and I squeezed him tighter, as if I could crush my little lie. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z "It's not as bad as all that. Just so long as the cat doesn't get me." The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z “She’s my own daughter. It’s just that it’s been so long. And she was hardly speaking to her father and me in those days. What will we say to each other?” The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z Aerys had been king before Robert, that wasn't so long ago. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z “What on earth were you doing up there for so long?” The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z It has been so long since I have been tested, let this man test me. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z When you’ve known someone for so long, you don’t see the same things in them that everyone else does. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z But was what happened so long ago to my great-great-grandparents going to define me? Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z The drive home has never felt so long. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Nothing could shake her confidence, even though there had been no word of her cat since he had left the Nurmis’ so long ago and so many miles away. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z For so long, I had been holding my breath. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z “I wasn’t doing well. I called, you know, the Suicide Hotline, and they told me to come here. Why have you been here so long?” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z It seemed easier to let them think I was stupid, so long as I knew I wasn’t. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z All I had wanted to say, though, was, “What took you so long?” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z They had been in fear of pursuit for so long that any sound from behind seemed ominous and unfriendly. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Tree-ear’s neck and shoulders were cramped from hunching in one position for so long. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z Then, immediately after assembly, there would be a race to the tuck shop because the queue to buy food was so long. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z She recognized one of them as the soldier in green from so long ago—the same soldier she knew was not a soldier, any more than he was a guard now. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z “I guess,” she said to herself, “that the sun’s been up so long I’ve forgotten the sounds of the night.” Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z I couldn’t imagine that this sound which had been with me for so long could ever stop. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z He had never been so firm, never lasted so long as he had with her. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z His face had turned so red, he looked like a crab that had been boiled so long, its claws were about to crack. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z Tell me what happened, but there was such a powerful need in me, pent up for so long, to speak about it, to say the words. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘You made me wait so long to get married, I’ve turned into an old woman!’ A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z It was an odd feeling and perhaps accounts for why I delayed my departure so long, wandering around the house many times over, checking one last time that all was in order. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z Even if everything is fine, what if we have to sit here so long that Ms. Rochambeau can’t get me to the bus stop before Bryce and Aurora get off the bus? The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z It’s been so long since I’ve been to Rose Hill that I wonder if the whole memory ain't some kind of fever dream. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z It had been so long since a farrier had trimmed War Chief’s hooves that he hobbled painfully around the yard like a crippled ballerina. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z It was so long that it didn’t fit in the turnaround. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z “But when I fell into the mistake I have so long remained in, at least you led me on?” said I. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z I knew she was old enough and smart enough to know that my head didn’t actually break, but she’d been calling it that for so long it didn’t matter anymore. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z The flickering hope for peace each of them had nurtured for so long flared like hot fire inside them. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z “Why would they keep it a secret so long?” said Lily. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Gerald walked over to him and placed his hand on the older man’s shoulder, just as Rob’s dad had done for him on that day that now seemed so long ago. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z How indeed could it be otherwise, so long as art is still being created all around us, opening our eyes almost daily to new experiences and thus forcing us to readjust our understanding? History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘But I will give to Ents all this valley to do with as they will so long as they keep a watch upon Orthanc and see that none enter it without my leave.’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z That seemed so long ago, but it had only been six weeks. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z I half expected someone—my father?—to come out and throw the diapers on the TV console at me while scolding me, irrationally, for staying away so long. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z My actual eyes have been closed for so long on Noelle’s shoulder that the hall is blinding. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z He saw the Tens stroking their new shortened hair, the females shaking their heads to feel the unaccustomed lightness without the heavy braids they had worn so long. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z I had been dreading Ob’s death for so long that in my mind I practically had the coffin picked out and which tie he’d wear. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z The General waited so long before he answered, Arm thought the connection had broken. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z And so long as the number of drug arrests increases or at least remains high, federal dollars continue to flow in and fill the department’s coffers. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z It was a very sad day for me—I had known her for so long, and she had taught me so much. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z They had been in the field so long that they did not tremble before God any more. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z “You’ve had your parents and me hovering over you for so long. At a certain point it becomes counterproductive.” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z “For folks who’re supposed to be so powerful, you aren’t too bright, are you? No wonder it took you so long to track me down. ” The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z "I'm never going to try and change the way anyone wants to live, so long as they're being good. But that said, I do want my students to get some schooling." Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z To Mollie, even the King of the Osage Hills seemed vulnerable, and after pursuing justice for so long, she retreated behind the closed doors and the shuttered windows of her house. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z “We’ve been living on bases and in cities for so long that I forgot what the South really is.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z For so long I’ve wished for real friends—for someone to have my back. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z He had been dead to her, for so long that she was almost frightened by the knowledge that he lived. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z I almost wondered they did not check their songs and whispers to catch the suspended revelation; but they would have had to wait many minutes—so long was the silence protracted. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z Then she recalled her first motive, from so long ago that she’d almost forgotten it. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Her dad studied a group photo of his beloved Beats for so long Emily wondered what he must be thinking about. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z As I passed one green field after the next, I thought, I don’t remember the road into Clover being so long. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z My quads burned from crouching for so long. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z Auntie Meiya had requested that story; now it seemed so long ago. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z It was strange to hear a woman’s voice, after so long. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z That is only possible so long as things are not going too badly. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z He wore the largest black turtleneck Percy had ever seen, black pants, and black leather shoes with points so long and curly, they might have been jester slippers. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z And if this is so, then the sword they have used so long against others can now, without mercy, be used against them. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z There’s a nagging mother and her seemingly mute child, and an older couple who have been married for so long they’ve morphed into near identical androgynous versions of each other. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z When the girl got sick, the moment Ethel awaited for so long had finally arrived. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z He had waited so long for his breakthrough, despaired so many times, and he just wanted to be alone for a little while with a pencil and some paper and a calculator and no talking. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z I stand as soon as Webb says “full stop” because I can only take a knee for so long. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z And then, Malcolm starts laughing so hard and for so long, she has to close her eyes and wait it out. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z And a good thing too, because it wasn’t so long before Novella was born. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “I guess maybe I’ve thought about the possibility for so long that it feels true now. Except it’s more than that.” Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z He had lived every one of his days intensely since he had left home so long ago. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z To make my going more comfortable I decided to put off a litde the intolerable thirst I had been living with for so long. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z I simply grumbled, little realising that my entire future had actually depended on that one piece of paper she had fought so long and so doggedly to secure. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z How had she missed it for so long? Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z “That is a good question. As you know, Luna is a bit of a mystery. As was Xan, ever so long ago.” The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z Inej could never be his, not really, but he would find a way to give her the freedom he’d promised her so long ago. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z “As a matter of fact I don’t see how a human man could have waited so long.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z It’d been so long since we talked I was surprised she was still thinking about that. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z Another would sneer “You wouldn’t know your old man if you saw him, he’s been gone so long. You sure you know who your pa is, kid?” Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z I smile, thinking of Bedi Ma'am's words, which feel so long ago now. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z “Oh, Lindsey darling, I ain't seen you in so long. It's been years, hasn't it? Oh, but Lord it's good to see you.” An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z “Winters are so long here in this country I thought I would never be able to wear sandals again. It is such a relief that summer is finally here.” Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z And after talking with her for so long that night, I assumed it was just the beginning. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z I didn’t expect to walk so far and so long. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z “That’s not unusual, considering we ripped it out of the ground not so long ago. Give it some water from the canteen. Isn’t it a grand day for a drive?” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z It was greasy from being on the stuffy plane for so long. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z Not so long ago, the thought of Robb calling the banners and riding off to war would have filled him with excitement, but now he felt only diead. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z I hadn’t heard his voice in so long. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z Not so long as there was food and drink within, willing women and warm fires. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z For of course he was thinking, just as you would have been, of all the reasons why the house might have been empty so long. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z They were made of cotton, spun fine and tightly woven, and felt as light as silk after wearing my dirt-encrusted homespun for so long. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z After Hermione had gone to bed that night, Harry quietly extracted his rucksack from Hermione’s beaded bag, and from inside it, the photograph album Hagrid had given him so long ago. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z “No, it’s a relief. This has been with my family for so long.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z It had been so long since she last held court that the crush of cases was almost overwhelming. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z It took them so long to find her classroom that, early as they had left Divination, they were only just in time. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z He’d been without that leg for so long that it looked like the crutches were apart of his body. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z "All that exercising must really tire you out. Come on out to dinner tomorrow night, been so long since you been here." The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z The incredible sadness he has carried for so long is gone, replaced by serene joy. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z He had not fought against one man in so long he had all but forgotten how. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z “I took you to the doctor’s house...not so long ago either...and you promised to pay.” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z And she said yes, which was true, but she sensed that he did not always believe her, or that his belief lasted only so long before he would need to hear her affirmation again. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z And he found himself thinking that maybe stories don't just make us matter to each other—maybe they're also the only way to the infinite mattering he'd been after for so long. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z She is more than a part of the ship; she has her own legs, but they’re badly corroded from being so long in this dank place. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z I don’t mean to eavesdrop, but I haven’t heard Mom’s voice in normal conversation for so long I can’t help it. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z Trying to figure out, maybe, why I had hesitated so long to agree. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z ‘It is so long and red I thought at first it was a hound-dog dressed up in pink petticoats. I never guessed it was a young lady.’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z She hadn’t stopped spending occasional nights out of the house, but she was fifty years old now and what lover could she have kept so long? Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z When she arrived, flushed and proud of herself, only their host’s son was surprised; her brothers laughed and chided her for taking so long. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z After living in such chaos for so long, I began to believe my mom’s boyfriend. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z I can’t say why I was so happy to see August again after so long, or how good it felt when he hugged me. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z He didn’t care so long as it didn’t get around to the extent that men laughed at him behind his back. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z The only reason she waiting on Miss Walter so long is Miss Walter be deaf as a doe-nob. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z “How come we have to wait so long?” Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z It was an easy, sleepy kind of languid fever, and so long as he did not try to move too much or exert himself unnecessarily he could live this way indefinitely. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Train Ear’s arms were so long, he almost hit a man. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z But they’d been waiting so long to get out of Hickory. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z Odenigbo and Mama were talking beside a water tank, for so long that mosquitoes began to bite Olanna as she stood waiting, so she climbed into the car and pressed the horn. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z He did not see how he could possibly explain to Hermione that what she had done to offend Ron was kiss Viktor Krum, not when the offense had occurred so long ago. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z She stood so long that her mother gave her a questioning look, and she smiled as if everything was okay and put on her jacket. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z He dropped lightly to the base of Fruitless Mountain, where so long ago Minli had taken some stone to make her compass. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z I even enjoy the feel of it down there, on that shriveled pink snake that fathered five children so long ago. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z “We are amazed it has taken you so long to ask. Well, it is a marvelous tale,” said Vikus, taking a deep breath to begin it. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z No one was hurt; but the terrible reality of Stalingrad was a shock after looking forward to this moment for so long. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z “If I’ve told you once, I’ve told you three hundred thousand, four hundred and twelve times, girl: you must stop keeping the splendor within you for so long!” Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z At first he thought he dreamt them; it had been so long since he had heard anything but the sound of his own voice. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Unfortunately, a rat can hang from a chandelier for only so long before he is discovered. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z “All right, so long as you all wear your masks,” she said. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z The beginnings of an idea that could honor Siobhan’s family, force the city to face its dark past, and acknowledge what had happened so long ago. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z She has been hanging on to the hope of him for so long that she doesn’t realize there isn’t anything left to hope for. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z The people stood and thought about rain, which they had almost forgotten, so long ago had the last rains fallen. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z “How did you keep it a secret so long?” The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z He used Emmett Till as an example, and despite the fact that it happened so long ago, the story shook Scoob down to his bones. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z "It might serve to carry nightsoil. If you threw it away, I might pick it up, so long as I did not need to stoop. But pay for it?" A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z I’ve got ants in my pants again from having to sit still so long. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z The amazing thing about that, if you ask me, is that they got so few for so long. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z “I am sorry you had to wait so long for your supper.” A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z “I told you. She died. It’s so long ago. She wasn’t your Mother.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z And Ocean had gone quiet for so long I started to worry. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z “You can, so long as your safety is a strategic necessity.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z Ho, even though she and Brian were eighteen and therefore legally adults, even though they had been together for so long. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Dad’s known her so long, his first home was her belly. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z Coop speaks to me all the time so long as other people are around. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z It had been of such enormous importance to me for so long that my habit was to defend it at all costs. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z “Where is the rickshaw repairman? Why has he kept you here for so long?” Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z A ghost ran toward them—an old man with a medicine- ball belly and toga so long he kept tripping on it. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z "Make of it what you will, so long as you release your prisoner. The Grand Maester is a staunch friend to the Queen Regent, and under her personal protection." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z She didn’t answer this one for so long, he thought she wasn’t going to and was on the verge of asking again when she said, “It’s too soon to tell.” A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z “In the stories, you were only immortal so long as you kept eating it, and that wouldn’t have been possible once the shipments stopped.” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z He’s so mad he has such a specific type of dude and never even noticed it for so long. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z He often wished that Anulika wasn’t so flat-chested—he wondered what was taking her so long anyway, since she and Nnesinachi were about the same age—so that he could feel her breasts. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Part of me said, Go home, hide, don’t go near the house, but a stronger part said, You’ve been lonely so long, you deserve a friend. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z She was standing on the sidewalk in torn-up jeans and a sweater, her dark hair falling to one side, so long it grazed her elbow. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z On the contrary, so long as they remain in conflict they prop one another up, like three sheaves of corn. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z It had been so long since we talked like this. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z It had been so long since I’d made simple conversation with someone that I felt strange and hesitant. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z The extreme poverty that plagued blacks due to their legally sanctioned inferior status was largely invisible to whites—so long as whites remained in their own neighborhoods, which they were inclined to do. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Anger propelled him to his feet; his legs were stiff from sitting for so long. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z “What in the world took you so long?” the man asked, not even pausing long enough to shoot Mark a glance. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z When it came early and lasted so long and poured down so hard, the manioc hills melted and tubers rotted away from their vines, and finally the downpour brought us the kakakaka. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z This was what I had been so long waiting for, the kind of thing I had come to Africa hoping to do. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z I also wondered how life would be for one of the lost boys if the other went off to school; they’d been inseparable for so long. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z It had been so long, so many years since I’d done this, and I wondered if I’d make a spectacle of myself. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Tiller and Sairy had lived so long in Ruby Holler that they knew every twist and turn in it, every path, every foxhole and beehive. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z Tyrion had been so long without a woman that he spent himself inside her on the third thrust. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “We should move quickly. I was on my way to rescue yet another abandoned baby. I have been doing so forever so long.” The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z But none were unmoved; none rejected its pleas and its commands without an effort of mind and will, so long as its master had control of it. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z "Whatever he pleases, so long as he remembers to feed him. I don't want him dying." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z We worked for so long with the sun beating down on our skin that my head started to hammer with pain, and it was a mercy when Arul finally said, “Enough. Let’s stop.” The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z Eleanor had known that for so long, she couldn't even remember figuring it out. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z Ralph, whose weekend had been so long and so lonely, felt such a surge of joy and relief at the sound of school buses that he skittered back to Room 5 in a forgiving mood. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z But what would he think of me now, knowing that I’d been keeping so much from him for so long? The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z The lines at Disney World had been so long, the wait sometimes more than an hour, and it had been hot. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z “That’s why I waited so long. I was holding out for the right price.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Tap tap tap...tap tap tap...Just so long as nobody came along the corridor. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z My back ached from hunching over my task for so long. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z We have never seen a galaxy change its form significantly only because it takes so long to move. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “For a creature to survive so long, it is, no doubt, as smart as it need be.” Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z It was as good as whatever Ugwu cooked, she was sure, but, except for the chalky pills, she had been unable to taste anything in so long. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z The words felt strange on her tongue, after so long. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Her dad studied a group photo of his beloved Beats for so long Emily wondered what he must be thinking about. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z She wondered what Brandon had done to get grounded for so long. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z "But how could 'a bear to play a part for so long a time, and never reveal his true self?" The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z “After so long without her, it’s very hard to explain what I feel. She knows I adore her. That I love her so much.” Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z My heart has been fluttering around my chest for so long now that this variety of intoxication almost seems sustainable—but only almost. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z Because chemists for so long worked in isolation, conventions were slow to emerge. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z I drink him up after so long apart. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z They were slipshod and didn’t much care, so long as they kept out of trouble themselves. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z Hafsa and I had been friends so long, I couldn't remember a time I didn’t know her, but when she talked like this, I didn’t understand her at all. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z They resembled most closely the Riddle that had escaped from the diary so long ago, and he had been memory made nearly solid. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z That was probably why we went on shuffling around that gallery for so long; we were delaying the moment when we’d have to confer. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z I contemplate asking to switch uniform skirts with her since hers is too short and mine is so long. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z Rain had told me to stay off the county roads, but that I’d be okay so long as I stuck to Garland property. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z Not so long after his resignation, he committed suicide in the cellar of his home. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z A very tall, square-shaped man in old blue overalls looked down at me and said, “Clarence, what took you so long?” Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z He just walked, as if deaf, his strides so long that Prosper struggled to keep up with him. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z Take one last peek around this room that for so long has been ours. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z “One night is so long. Two nights are even longer. How will I manage to cope with three nights? Four days feel like a month to me, and you expect me to wait nine days?” Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z She shouldn’t have left him alone for so long. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z “She called on me, and when Philippa told her I was here, she insisted on joining. Apparently, a woman can only go so long without a sword between her hands.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Walls were never any problem for him, not so long as his arms worked, and he quickly scaled this one and hurried back through the quiet streets to Falkbridge’s house. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z She grows her nails so long that she scratches you even while she strokes your face and says nice things. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z “No. I never do. And it doesn’t really matter, just so long as they get here in time.” Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z But I did and slept till sundown, when suddenly I jerked awake, feeling guilty about leaving him alone so long. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z Why would they keep me in a coma for so long? The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z It was a long time since I had written to the States and I knew I should write but I had let it go so long that it was almost impossible to write now. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z Then they crowded down into the Honeycomb to hear Hazel and Bigwig tell the story of their adventures to those who had waited so eagerly and so long to hear it. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Nhamo was now knowledgeable about the food she had seen in magazines so long ago. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Some of the old people could barely walk after standing for so long. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z After all I’ve been through in the past year, it seems stupid that I resented them for so long. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z There was a pregnant pause, so long Koffi began to sweat. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z It’s been so long that I’m taller in our hug than I used to be. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z She thought it rather wonderful that he remembered something she had done so long ago. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z I can’t stop the questions that come from my mouth—the questions that I’ve been wanting to ask for so long, questions that might as well have existed since the beginning of time. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z I had waited so long for this day, and I was glad to leave, but I would miss Mumtaz and the other servants. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z They had played it for so long it had become a bedtime ritual, like brushing teeth. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z Sweetie Pie stroked Winn-Dixie’s head so long and serious that his eyes drooped half closed and drool came out of the side of his mouth. Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z Eight women came, thrilled that a female pilot was finally getting the chance they had been denied so long ago and perhaps a little sad that they weren't flying along with her. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z A sudden powerful how-dare-I-talk-to-him-about-my-artwork feeling is overtaking me, but it’s been so long since we’ve connected about anything, so I go on. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z The members of our umunna had urged him for so long, even when he was still a manager at Leventis and had not bought the first factory, to take a title. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z Like things had been out of control for so long that whatever I did hardly mattered anymore. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z She laughed so long and hard that tears of laughter glittered in her eyes, and as she laughed, for the first time she reached out and squeezed her new husband Njord’s hand. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z I am sorry I am taking so long.” The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z But first he owed an explanation to Ron and Hermione, who had stuck with him for so long, and who deserved the truth. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z This was what he had longed for, for so long. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z But the winds continued contrary so long that we were forced to stay there some time, where we suffered great storms. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z I had waited so long for my dogs, and I so desperately wanted to see them and hold them. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z She wasn't an animal, in spite of living with baboons for so long. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The young man took a deep breath, and for a moment he looked just like the boy he had been, not so long ago. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z His eyelashes were so long and thick they looked artificial. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z And those old bones were another reason for people to dig elsewhere, despite how foolish it was to be afraid of something so long dead and buried. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z Would she even remember me, the awkward boy she had known for a few days so long ago? The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z The prosecutor is also free to file more charges against a defendant than can realistically be proven in court, so long as probable cause arguably exists—a practice known as overcharging. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z It had been so long since he had last seen Arya. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “And especially since Miss Hilly and Mister Johnny went steady for so long.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z It was “all right” in the camps, he gathered, so long as you had good contacts and knew the ropes. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z “I have been informed by a person named Abel Magwitch, that he is the benefactor so long unknown to me.” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z Her fingers were so long, I thought maybe they had an extra joint. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s been tucked away so long, I almost forgot about it. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z But we'd been awake so long, we decided it was better to rest, change clothes, and freshen up. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z Don’t say “Oh, racism is over, slavery was so long ago.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z In Cal the process had been so long and so slow that he felt no strangeness. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Cal was silent for so long that Lee’s fingers began to creep a little, holding to his wrists. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z “Why did you wait so long to say something?” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z The only thing that made me angry was that my beautiful skirt of yucca fibers, which I had worked on so long and carefully, was ruined. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z The picture blew away like the ashes that had been beaten in the mortar so long ago in the village, the day Vatete died. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z She had battled so long to get to Zimbabwe, one more obstacle was more than she could take. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z She did not know why he so adored things that were so long dead; what sustenance they gave him, what secrets he hoped to wrest from them. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z He shifted in his seat, his tailbone aching from sitting for so long. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z After it being just the four of us alone for so long, suddenly being around so many people, even if they were kids like us, was a little stressful. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z “His parents are like, finally! Farooq finished memorizing the Qur’an two years ago, you know. We don’t get why your uncle took so long to ask him.” Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z “Didn’t you ever wonder why he was living so long?” Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z He looked cute when his eyes were closed, because his lashes were so long. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z He reached the top of the steps and breathed deeply, his lungs aching from holding themselves full of air so long. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z This time I know I can defend myself for only so long. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The high sun and the steaming heat reminded Roy of another bright afternoon not so long ago, in a place not so far off. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “I have not talked to Danny in so long,” he said quietly. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z I don’t know why it takes me so long to realize what’s going on. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z We, who were oudaws not so long ago, have today been given the rare privilege to be host to the nations of the world on our own soil. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Good Lord!’ says he, ‘Camilla, what can it signify so long as the poor bereaved little things are in black?’ Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z She glared at me, so long and so hard everyone else dropped their heads and got busy eating. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z “I’m sorry, Mrs. Dalton. I didn’t mean to keep you standing there so long. But you see how things are. . . .” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z I am sorry that I had to be away so long to-day; but you will, I know, forgive one who has so many important affairs in hand.” Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z But Frau Elena watches the boys with wary eyes: not so long ago they were feral toddlers skulking in their cots and crying for their mothers. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z It irked him that few people seemed to understand the effects he worked so long and hard to create. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Before Jesse, I knew that no matter what happened to me, I could soldier on so long as we were together. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z We’d lived with other people’s expectations so long that they were almost embedded in every conversation we had. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z “Oh, Mother! She’s too young, it’s my turn first. I’ve wanted it so long. It would do me so much good, and be so altogether splendid. I must go!” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z He holds her this way for so long that she begins to wonder if he is going to turn off the light and caress her. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z "No, I'll keep the girl . . . and keep her safe, so long as you do as I've commanded you. Her life is in your hands." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z We all glance at Mama to see how she will react to having someone from my dad’s family stay with us for so long. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z “We can’t expect other people to side with us when everything is complicated, and happened so long ago.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z I always did everything he told me, and I always will, so long as I live. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z I’ve thought of Bernard as a bully for so long, it’s hard to think of him any other way. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z The sun and moon and stars had been gone so long that Asha was starting to wonder whether she had dreamed them. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z I had been so absorbed for so long with setting up and executing the first part of the trip that I hadn’t actually stopped to consider where I would be at this point. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z “Yeah, he may have been trying to help, but why wait so long? It’s like he expected us to bake a batch of cookies for him.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z The day in the park was so long and lonely for her. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z The attitude of the party leader prevailed and Left Front, for which I had worked so long, was voted out of existence. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Man, you and I lived for so long in a spinning world. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z “But We have also had a strong relationship with Abnegation in the past, and we do not think it is right to revoke the hand of friendship when it has for so long been extended.” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z He said, “I’ve spent so long looking for this key. It’s hard to look at it.” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z “Little girl, you will never regret that true-hearted kindness, so long as ever you live!” Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z I had been so deep inside Father’s for so long that it felt good to rise above what I knew. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z Lynn got better and didn’t get sick again for so long that I figured everything was fine. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z The first part was missing and he had never finished it. ... as Lovelace said so long ago, ‘I could not love thee, dear, so much loved I not honour more.’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z "He seemed sick for so long. Kind of frail or something." We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z Back on Overlook Road—so long ago, Mom still lived with us. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z When I was remembering them with Tommy not so long ago, he thought they were pretty decent people. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Now what connection under heaven can there be between the golden man hanged so long ago and the sweet little bearing mother? East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z “Lord Ramsay treats his captives honorably so long as they keep faith with him.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “They have waited, some of them, so long,” Buttercup answered. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z The hours had seemed so long until seven o’clock. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z But I think we shall have trouble learning how to lie, having for so long practiced the art of going round and round the truth without ever lying about it, or reaching it either. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z I wondered, too, what was keeping Mama and Lisbeth so long. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z How is it that neither of us knew the ways of the world for so long? The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z It had been so long—so very, very long—since she had last seen her own face. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z “I hope so. Otherwise I’m going to have to eat some of these books. Sticky, what on earth took you so long? Didn’t you know how hungry I was?” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z We’d been in the car so long that Dad had started growing a beard. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z When you're dying for so long, old urgencies wither and die. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Now, her hand on mine after so long apart, here in Tommy's house and nowhere close to sleep, I wonder what might have changed if I had. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z I’m sitting next to Georgia, but the table is so long that there might as well be two people sitting in between us. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z “Cat’s legs was so long and his pants so short his knees showed—an’ his head looked like a briar patch!” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z It had been so long since she’d been in such a situation. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z She said a silent goodbye to everything that had been familiar for so long. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z I had known her so long that I called her Grandma too. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z After enduring them for so long, the idea seemed too good to be true. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z I stared at that middle line and waited so long for its black center to resolve into tight strokes and dots that I forgot to pronounce it. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Back home, we only had it on special occasions: birthdays and holidays and report card days, so long as I made a B average. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z And why do you think this is the first time I’ve written in here in so long? We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z It was too quiet at home, even with Mr. Whiskers’ cranky meowing to let me know he didn’t appreciate my being gone so long. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z I had had them closed for so long that the sunlight coming through the windows blinded me. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z I’ve held this in for so long that it feels wrong to speak of it. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z Tally’s arm started to shake, the muscles complaining about staying frozen for so long. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z She felt guilty for leaving Nehemia out of the conversation for so long, and having the princess be fluent in both languages would be great fun. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z We had been gone from him for so long. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z It felt like the narrowest of escapes, being sent to the library that day so long ago. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z “If his brother’s been in here for so long, it’s very possible that he’s not alive anymore.” Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z There was a long silence, so long that Turner wondered if the clock might chime again.“Yes,” his father said,“! do know. But it’s not to be gossiped about at the minister’s dinner table.” Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z “All these words seem so long and heavy,” Guy said. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z The teller, I know, can keep his face in the shadows only so long. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z That she had been pretending to be so nice for so long because of the coven. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z Before I got vitiligo, I never understood how Mom and Lily spent so long looking at themselves in the mirror. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z For so long, society has told me that because of my neighborhood and the color of my skin, I would never amount to anything. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z It was warm from being so close to my skin for so long, which didn’t make it any easier to swallow. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z Now that he had gone, these things, so long subdued by his presence, were glamorized in his wake. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z The night had been one that he had been looking forward to for so long, the culmination of months—of years—of work. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z On Sunday, July 27, the storm that had been building for so long blew the city apart. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z In fact, they will seize every measure to defend the new prince so long as he is not neglectful of his duties. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z They were hardly out of sight before she blew out a breath so long it sounded as if she had been holding it for a year. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z But that did not matter because it had been so long ago. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z “I was just wondering why you’re here,” I mused aloud, remembering the conversation that seemed so long ago. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z And he’d never felt so full, or lingered at a table so long, or talked so much or been so comfortable with someone he’d only just met. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Frodo gazed in wonder at this marvellous gift that he had so long carried, not guessing its full worth and potency. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z “I do so long to be there, and be at peace again, with you.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z The list was very long—so long, in fact, that the authors of Standards of Inmate Behavior found it easier to define what was permitted than what wasn’t. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Those words had kept him locked up for so long. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z Mr. Quisling paced the aisles for so long the laughter faded into suppressed giggles, then uneasy silence and shifting in seats. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z Now there’s blankness Where once your eyes held the light But that was so long ago That was last night Well, what was that? If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z If either of them felt surprise, resentment, commiseration or envy, they did not show it The only surprising thing to them was that the secret had been kept so long. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Somkit stood with his hand on his satchel for so long that Pong thought he was going to refuse to show it. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z “What’s Dust?’ she said, struggling to stand up after having been cramped for so long. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z For so long she had been wrong, wrong, wrong, making countless mistakes and never quite living up to her mama’s expectations. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z Lying motionless, I stare at the water stain on the ceiling for so long that it takes on more and more details that make it look like Farooq. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z I wish I could’ve kept the anger out of my voice, but I had buried everything deep for so long, and now all of it was bursting through the surface. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Lady Isobel sipped at her tea and said, “Aisling, go upstairs and see what is taking Ana so long. Her breakfast is getting cold.” Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z When policemen or soldiers stopped Papa, he spent so long showing them all his car papers, letting them search his car, anything but bribe them to let him pass. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z I have wandered for so long without any sense of purpose, and now this ephemeral purpose has been given to me—it feels like it has been given to me. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z It's like I bottled up my anger so long and so well I didn't even admit I felt it, but now it bubbles out like soda. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z The men lay down to sleep on a floe that rose and fell at least a foot with the swell, and some of them felt seasick after so long on a motionless, frozen ocean. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z She had been gone so long from them. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z Anything at all, so long as it didn’t involve talking about what we had done the day before in the barn, what we both knew we wanted to do again. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z In those days it was not difficult to get into either of these great universities so long as you could pay. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z It had been hidden away for so long that Luna suspected the Sorrow Eater had forgotten it was even there. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z How I hated myself for remaining so long in that horrible world! Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z After being in tunnels so long, I found it weird that part of the Labyrinth could be open to the sky. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z No one had taken the attack against him in so long and it was thrilling! The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z I guess I saw him through Pink’s eyes that morning, because I was embarrassed all of a sudden, how seedy Grandpa Tweedy looked in ragged overalls, his beard so long and scraggly. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z "He took life very easily, it seemed to me; probably after being in prison for so long he didn't take it as seriously as someone else might have done." Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z “He said it would be all right so long as he didn’t know anything about it. If I just went and didn’t tell him anything, he said he wouldn’t object.” My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “I guess because he was in that cold water for so long.” Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z “I have been waiting so long. Hum the tunes.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z He had been on his own for so long. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z “He’s fine so long as he’s busy,” Bast said softly. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z It’s been so long since I’ve been in the actual office that it seems smaller now. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z “Well, at least we know he’s alive. We haven’t heard from him in so long, I was beginning to wonder.” Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z Has she grown cocky now that it’s been so long and I haven’t told? Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z They were real grown-up lunch boxes, proof that we had risen to the status we had looked forward to for so long. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z At that point, he said, the family had gone so long without talking about Henrietta, it was almost like she’d never existed, except for her children and those cells. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z An idea so obvious I can’t believe it’s taken so long for it to occur to me. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z The Argo II had been their home for so long. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z And true to form, I got us to our seats below the rostrum at the Capitol long before the ceremony, so long before that we nearly froze. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s mighty bad dat it’s gone on so long. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z “Sorry it took so long,” she tells me. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z "You've waited so long, be patient awhile longer. Here, I have something for you." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z “Serves him right for staying away for so long. I’ll tell him they took off heading north.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z Before their eyes the tiny, lowly hut which had been their home for so long was turned into a stately pillared temple of whitest marble with a golden roof. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z For so long now, I’d felt torn between their worlds—so different, and yet so much the same. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z He's been my guide, my protector, my best friend for so long that I don't know what to do without him. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z A moment later, Miss Peregrine came tottering out, dizzy after spending so long in the dark. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z She wore an off-white dress so long it covered her shoes. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z We stay under the water for so long. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z What’s more, they’d keep it low no matter what the other boats were doing, so long as they stayed within roughly two lengths of the field. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z I was laughing so hard my stomach hurt, like when you don’t eat a certain food for so long that when you eat it again your stomach starts cramping. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z The boy had forgotten it was still Christmas, the waiting seemed so long. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z “Your hair is so pretty, Virginia! It’s so long!” The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z I would scream so loudly and for so long that I would yell away all the years of hurt built up inside me. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z Harley stood up then, but Tayo couldn’t tell if it was because he didn’t want to talk about the sheep or if he was only getting stiff from squatting so long. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z His sword was so long and heavy that no one else could lift it. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z He had known everything about Kira for so long: her smile, her voice, her merry optimism, the amazing strength and skill of her hands, and the burden of her useless leg. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z “What took you so long?” his father asked. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z Same tent where he told me his secret not so long ago. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z We had been planning our life here for so long. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z The winds swirled about, and the earth rumbled deep and low, telling of its thirst for the waters that hadn’t come for so long. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z “What made you stay away so long?” she asked presently, finding it so pleasant to ask confidential questions and get delightful answers that she could not keep silent. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z She’d been gripping it hard for so long the linen cover had left an impression on her palm. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z I run my fingers over the tiny valleys made by the pen that pressed against these pages so long ago, and I remember the only thing Gram ever told me about her childhood. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z She kept to her vow, and so long as the war went on she refused to serve Continental officers. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “Her breasts were so long, she could wrap them around herself, round and round like a blanket!” A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Harriet’s staying away so long was beginning to make her uneasy. Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z I hadn’t been this close to him in so long. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z “He’s in no danger so long as he stays silent.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z Please, please, it’s been so long: let—him—-be—a—master! The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z If the “slavery was so long ago” thing comes up, have your white friend say that lots of white folks are still inheriting money that their families made a hundred years ago. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z "Ampai! Finally! Your trip lasted so long, I thought you were never coming back!" A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z They had tried so long, she and her husband, for a baby. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z But they had been gone so long at Thurmond that I had stopped trying to imagine what it must have been like for them to speak the mysterious language of electricity. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z The chain we made was so long that we held up traffic while crossing the busy intersection on Pennsylvania Avenue. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z "Just so long as I have the suitcase, I don't care what happens. Do you know how long ..." Her voice trailed off, then started up again. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z The big questions are: Why has it taken so long for us to recognize the danger we face? 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z "He's afraid. He's waited so long. He thought you might be offended. You see he's a regular tough underneath it all." The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z With her he sailed back to the island and his mother, but in the house where he had lived so long he found no one. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z “I just go to see if there is anything new. I stop by. They all ask for you. It is a disgrace that they should stay so long that they become friends.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z I’ve wanted to tell her about him for so long, but now I’m not sure where to begin. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z I hadn’t heard it in so long, I couldn’t even tell if it was his or if I was making it up. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z But so long as it is there it will seek its own way out, heedless of the will that is within me. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z “Sure he would, so long as we don’t mind Katie and Jean tagging along.” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Jean disappeared into the bathroom, where he stayed so long that by the time he returned to the bedroom Blanca was half asleep. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z My mom put her arms around me, and we stayed like that so long that my neck was getting a crick in it. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z But because it had taken so long to deliver and master the powerful Pe-2 dive-bomber aircraft with its aircrew of three, the 587th Bomber Aviation Regiment still wasn’t flying combat missions. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z On that day so long ago, in the year nineteen hundred and thirty-seven, in the Massacre River, my mother did fly. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z Adding infinite things to each other seems to work out most of the time, so long as you are dealing with something in real life, like finding the volume of a barrel of wine. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z MOM: I mean, one of the reasons why your father and I work so long and hard is so you don’t have to wear secondhand clothes. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z It had taken him so long to catch the rat. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Joey blubbered out, “This is just like that horrible story Kenny read me about that guy Nar-sissy who stared at himself so long he forgot to eat and starved to death. Mommy, please save him!” The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z The path is paved with cement, and there are wild roses on either side, so long that the thorns threaten to scratch my arms. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z I bend over them rows so long, dropping the beans into a bucket, I think I’m going to be bent for life. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z The speech is so long and so unexciting that people in the audience begin shifting their feet and then lowering their heads and slipping away into the night, off to search for a real celebration. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z By the 1980s, catastrophism had been out of fashion for so long that it had become literally unthinkable. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Gretchen from Mountford said she felt sorry for me about that, but I didn’t care so long as I got cake and ice cream. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z We hit that little drum for so long my fingers started losing feeling. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z “Let him think what he wants, so long as he delivers the message,” said Quentyn. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z It was holding a huge wooden club, which dragged along the floor because its arms were so long. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z “Been so long since we used this darn thing,” she mumbled. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z Better still, so long as I didn’t ask for any help from the scrivs, nothing would be recorded in the Archive’s ledger books. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z “The food isn’t bad so long as you don’t think too hard about where it might have come from.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z It’s been so long since someone hugged me that I stiffen. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z It's so long ago and far away that here in my invisibility I wonder if it happened at all. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z After focusing on Big Thumb for so long, it was as if the rock had absorbed his energy and now acted like a kind of giant magnet pulling him toward it. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z “How I could so long a time be fancying myself!...” cried Harriet, warmly. Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z It didn’t take so long and I said, “That’s good. I don’t want to be late for school.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He was the reason Roz had lived so well for so long. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z Had it been so long that the panic had settled into something dull and unrelenting? Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z And then, when he’s been underwater so long I feel certain he’s drowned, his head pops up right next to me and I start. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z We didn’t think it was wise to wait so long. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z I did not dare defy King’s Landing so long as my last living son remained a captive. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Whether we put up poems or photographs or even paintings is up to us, so long as the work is ours and we can tie it in with our study of the Harlem Renaissance. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z I would support her and my sisters so that they could afford the things that they had so long been denied. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “We kept it so long on its mother’s milk. We’ll get a good price for it.” Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z She’d been alone so long, Tally found herself enjoying being the center of attention. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z “Somewhere underground. They made it sound like Nico still had a few days to live, but I don’t see how he could hold out so long with no oxygen.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Her nails were Chanel red but so long they had to be the kind you bought at the drugstore. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z They talk for so long Alex has to plug his phone in to keep the battery from dying. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Maybe that was the sign, the hand he had so long awaited. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z “What took you so long, cupcakes? You kept your visitor waiting!” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z But that was so long ago he had forgotten the pain. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z I hadn’t hugged someone in so long that I was almost too stunned to embrace him back. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z All my joints complain and my left leg has been asleep for so long that it takes several minutes of pacing to bring the feeling back into it. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z “I’m so glad you are all finally here! What took you so long?” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z Why had she waited so long to tell me about Charlie? Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z Griffin’s Roost was strong but small, and so long as they sat here they would seem small as well. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “You know what I have felt for so long? As if I was waiting to be happy.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z “Do you know,” she said, “it took me so long to plait this hair? She had such thick hair.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z It seemed so long ago that he had said it. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z Sansa could go where she would so long as she did not try to leave the castle, but there was nowhere she wanted to go. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Maybe we've been immersed in this world's stink for so long we don't even notice it anymore? The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z “Your hair got so long I didn’t even recognize you.” Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z This remark set him to coughing so long and hard, I thought he might vomit, but he didn’t. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z His skin didn’t feel like iron, but it would explain how he’d held out so long against the gorgons. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z It’s not that I have feelings for him, because I don’t, it’s that I'm worried about what it means that I haven’t seen him in so long. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z Even knowing how much he suffered, I can’t help but be angry at the betrayal that happened so long ago. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z “You were unconscious for so long, I was a little worried I’d killed you. Chloroform is fickle in that way.” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z It worked itself out so long as you didn’t think about it. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Sorry for waiting so long to let her know how I felt. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z I have waited so long for him to come back, and I send him away. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z You don’t kill nothing—not one single thing—and so long as you don’t make work for me, so long as you don’t deal death, you don’t die.’ The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z “She barely survived. She had the spirit of a true huntress. You will not last so long.” The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z The war had lasted so long that folk could hardly remember a time when the sky wasn’t dark with the smoke of burning towns. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z El Patron’s voice filled with wonder as he described the hacienda where he had attended fiestas so long ago. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Miracles, which you wanted to do so long ago, can only be done by the pure in heart. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z “Why Tim put up with your fat, nasty, dirty trap”—Sally folded her arms and jutted her hips out—“for so long before dumping you, I'll never know.” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z I’m sorry it took me so long to talk about this, but I was scared. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z That had been six years ago, so long now that Conor sometimes couldn’t remember what it was like having a dad in the house. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z What were they doing, sitting together in the dark for so long? The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z I saw in this the reason for my being staved off so long and the reason for my late guardian’s declining to commit himself to the formal knowledge of such a scheme. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z Like, you can only go on being completely fugue- stressed for so long without winding down. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z It takes her so long, you’d swear she was writing a whole paragraph. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z Djo, we sang and prayed for so long it seemed the whole night—time to find and lose bravery many times. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z “She hasn’t lost anything for so long. Be wise. Be brave. Be tricky.” Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z How could a stone image look to her like the man she had loved for so long? Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z She knelt before the goddess and began the words I remembered from Bianca’s oath, what seemed like so long ago. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z I had wondered if Chasca might bring up this topic that we had so carefully avoided for so long. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z He had been so long away, Dany had almost forgotten what he was. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “Or maybe they would’ve been furious at me for keeping it from them for so long, and the credit would have gone to someone else.” A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z It didn’t take so long to bring down the limb even though it was a pretty good size. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z It wasn’t fair to have waited for so long to read a book that was less than what I’d imagined. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z It was a modest vehicle, square and bulky in the manner of a Dodge, so long in front as to look out of balance and with its radiator grille low over the bumper. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z “Sorry I took so long. There was a line.” When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z It is customary for the first identifier to have the species named after him, or any name he chooses, so long as it is not already in use. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z It’s been so long since I’ve heard drums as music that I instinctively try to translate the beats into orders and find myself bewildered when I cannot. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z Not so long ago H. Wayne Huizenga, the billionaire founder of Blockbuster and owner of the Miami Dolphins, wanted more elbow room and bought a neighboring house for $2.5 million. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Not so long before, the lighthouse keeper on Cuttyhunk had used dolphin fat to fuel his beacon, and I could not remember that without shrinking. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z For so long, she could see now, she had made her daughter live by her whim: moving on anytime she needed new ideas; anytime she had felt stuck or uneasy. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Like this was the reason I had survived so long, the reason my parents had given me my name. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z “It has been so long since I’ve had a decent meal,” the thing said. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z |
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