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Livelong

noun

Perennial northern temperate plant with toothed leaves and heads of small purplish-white flowers. Synonyms: live-forever, orpin, orpine, Sedum telephium.

adjective

(of time) constituting the full extent or duration.

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... was condemned to do hour after hour through the livelong day. The only respite comes when meals are brought in and during the night, when the prisoner is left alone. But throughout the day, from 6.30 in the morning to about 7 at night one must pursue the eternal round—two paces ...

— Sixteen Months in Four German Prisons - Wesel, Sennelager, Klingelputz, Ruhleben • Henry Charles Mahoney

... know we have been together the whole livelong day, Robert—since early this morning?" she said ...

— The Awakening and Selected Short Stories • Kate Chopin

... ground was there, of a depth almost reaching to the Infernal Gods, where the yew-tree spread thick its horizontal branches, at all times excluding the light of the sun. Fearful and withering shade was there, and noisome slime cherished by the livelong night. The air was heavy and flagging as that of the Taenarian promontory; and hither the God of hell permits his ghosts to extend their wanderings. It is doubtful whether the sorceress called up the dead to attend her here, or herself descended ...

— Lives of the Necromancers • William Godwin

... that in his home Deathlike stillness dwells for aye; The voice of mirth no more shall come, And mother sighs the livelong day. ...

— Famous Stories Every Child Should Know • Various

... they, domed to cruel dooms. Who labor all the livelong day; Who stand beside the roaring looms Nor ever turn their eyes away; Like parts of those machines of steel: Like wheels that whirl, like shuttles thrown; Without the power to dream or feel; With all ...

— Selected Poems • William Francis Barnard

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