protraction

Example Sentences

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If, to come at once to partic'lars, you'd consider to give up this here miln, and go without further protractions straight home to where you belong, it 'ud happen be as well.

From Shirley by Brontë, Charlotte

True, the protractions come out well, but this is all the worse, suggesting the process commonly called "doctoring."

From The Land of Midian — Volume 1 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

Therefore spodizators, gesinins, memains, and parazons, be not culpable of dilatory protractions in the apposition of every re-roborating species, but rather let them pullulate and superabound on the tables.

From Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 5 by Motteux, Peter Anthony

What a discovery was this to men whose appetites were sharpened by such long protractions!

From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 12 by Rudd, John

The third booke intreateth of diuers formes, and sondry protractions thereto belonging, with the vse of certain conclusions.

From The Path-Way to Knowledg Containing the First Principles of Geometrie by Record, Robert