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Lengthily

adverb
1.
In a lengthy or prolix manner.  Synonym: at length.  "She talked at length about the problem"






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"Lengthily" Quotes from Famous Books



... definite cypresses that usually rise in groups of three or four beside it. The house had a front upon a little grassy, empty, rural piazza which occupied a part of the hill-top; and this front, pierced with a few windows in irregular relations and furnished with a stone bench lengthily adjusted to the base of the structure and useful as a lounging-place to one or two persons wearing more or less of that air of undervalued merit which in Italy, for some reason or other, always gracefully ...
— The Portrait of a Lady - Volume 1 (of 2) • Henry James

... provisions and ammunition. Wolfe had grog served out to them as they reached, tired and panting, the top of the hill with their loads, using to each kind and encouraging words. The crowning success which followed is lengthily described elsewhere. The first house built at Wolfesfield was by Captain Kenelm Chandler, [225] David Munro, Esquire, was the next proprietor. The occupant for forty years was an old and respected Quebec merchant, well known as the "King of ...
— Picturesque Quebec • James MacPherson Le Moine



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