It was rather irritating to him, even with the wine of love in his veins, to be obliged to mingle so often with the family party at the Vincys', and to enter so much into Middlemarch gossip, protracted good cheer, whist-playing, and general futility.
I would fain have returned home earlier that we might have been at Lowick for the Christmas; but my inquiries here have been protracted beyond their anticipated period.
2% is expected to return next year, the bank warned that the outlook is "highly uncertain and downside risks are predominant, including the possibility of a more protracted pandemic, financial upheaval and retreat from global trade and supply linkages".
he British government has unveiled the country's new, blue post-Brexit passports, hailing the return of an "iconic" document that became a thorny issue during the UK's protracted departure from the European Union.
If it has to happen, it would probably involve a protracted and painful process, and the extent of the damage to each country and its people's well-being is hard to predict, as well as the damage to the world economy.
Eliminating bullying is a protracted war Although Professor Zhou said school violence can come down through efforts by family, school and social education, he admitted that bullying cannot be eliminated totally even if the three parts of the society take better measures.
Mr Trump recently won a protracted trademark case against a Chinese construction services company that had registered the Trump brand.
In the event of a "No" vote and Mr Renzi's exit, bankers fear protracted uncertainty during the creation of a technocratic government.
He fought a war in the Gulf that did not become a protracted vision of hell.
It can be condensed, blended, extended ,protracted, expanded, converted, reversed and shifted.
Xiangru Returned the Jade Intact to the Zhao State This story is set during China's Warring States Period(475221 BC),a time when seven states are pitting their military might in a protracted contest for political hegemony.
But consider that protracted over time, unchecked, accumulated negative feelings such as anger and hostility, can result in health damaging consequences.
Fifa"""" Sepp Blatter has backed potentially wide-ranging reforms of Fifa, football's world governing body, as he kicked-off a protracted election to select his successor.
North and South Korea officials hold talks Thursday aimed at resolving a protracted wage dispute at a jointly run factory complex.
The general's shattered hip--and all of the ensuing complications, the pneumonia, blood poisoning, the protracted stay at the nursing home--ended Khala Jamila's long-running soliloquies about her own health.
Although patients have long had the right to their records, the process to obtain copies can be protracted.
After a protracted journey by land and sea the princess, still under the name and disguise of Prince Camaralzaman, arrived at the capital of the Ebony Island whose king was named Armanos.
