protractions

He didn't use protractions at all in any books.. actually I think I saw it one time in all the books.

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

Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte 2004

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

The Land of Midian 2003

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.

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

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.

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

After being established in Kirkcaldy for some weeks Smith wrote Hume that he was immersed in study, which was the only business he had, that his sole amusements were long solitary walks by the seaside (which, with a man of his gift or infirmity of abstraction, would only be protractions of the study that preoccupied him), and that he never was happier or more contented in all his life.

Life of Adam Smith Rae, John, 1845-1915 1895

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

The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 12 John [Editor] Rudd 1885

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

The Land of Midian — Volume 1 Richard Francis Burton 1855

He thus assisted me in the protractions of the map, to the countries which lie east and west of the route.

The Discovery of the Source of the Nile John Hanning Speke 1845

I rely so far on the geographical information I thus received, that I would advise no one to doubt the accuracy of these protractions until he has been on the spot to test them by actual inspection.

The Discovery of the Source of the Nile John Hanning Speke 1845