It certainly operated to
prolong in their case, and to confirm to them as their only inheritance, those feelings of repugnance and superstitious terror with which the people of the town, even after awakening from their frenzy, continued to regard the memory of the reputed witches.
And if he could expect to
prolong his honors by his good conduct, he might hesitate to sacrifice his appetite for them to his appetite for gain.
Kantos Kan and I were now pitted against each other but as we approached to the encounter I whispered to him to
prolong the battle until nearly dark in the hope that we might find some means of escape.
The greater number of enemies slain the better chance to
prolong that life.
It is useless, and the time awfully fails me, to
prolong this description; no one has ever suffered such torments, let that suffice; and yet even to these, habit brought--no, not alleviation--but a certain callousness of soul, a certain acquiescence of despair; and my punishment might have gone on for years, but for the last calamity which has now fallen, and which has finally severed me from my own face and nature.
Hold, sir," said Villefort, "do not
prolong this dreadful scene.
But their remedies do not cure the disease: they merely
prolong it.
in conversation, and more or less
prolong the syllable "ohl" according as they desire to express different shades of meaning or of mood).
I shall be unable, therefore, to
prolong my residence, as your highness has so kindly invited me to do.
I have no wish to
prolong it," said Madame de Cintre; and turning to the door she put out her hand again.
He more than intimated that it was at his option to concoct a liquid that should
prolong life for years, perhaps interminably; but that it would produce a discord in Nature which all the world, and chiefly the quaffer of the immortal nostrum, would find cause to curse.
My kind friends here are most affectionately urgent with me to
prolong my stay, but their hospitable and cheerful dispositions lead them too much into society for my present situation and state of mind; and I impatiently look forward to the hour when I shall be admitted into Your delightful retirement.
