Long-continued

Long-continued wretchedness in the galleys, long misery outside the galleys, had brutalized him, etc.

Les Miserables 2008

Long-continued suffering of body and long-continued irritation of mind had worn her away — in the roughly expressive popular phrase — to skin and bone.

Armadale 2003

Long-continued hard thinking actually does "wear a man out."

Certain Success Norval A. Hawkins

Long-continued failure to pay a debt is very frequently the remote cause of war.

The Manóbos of Mindanáo Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume XXIII, First Memoir John M. Garvan

Long-continued and slow evaporation of the water absorbed by a soil is injurious in another way, for it makes the soil "cold" -- a term of practical origin, but which very correctly expresses the peculiarity in question.

Elements of Agricultural Chemistry Thomas Anderson

[Long-continued applause on the floor and in the galleries.]

History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States William Horatio Barnes

Long-continued thought, instead of making his questioning clearer, endlessly complicated it.

Cytherea Joseph Hergesheimer 1917

Long-continued anxiety, I suppose, does tell on one in time.

The Return Walter De la Mare 1914

Long-continued grief at any loss will do the same.

In Tune with the Infinite or, Fullness of Peace, Power, and Plenty Ralph Waldo Trine 1912

Long-continued thinking is sure to take effect at last, either in words or in action, and Hawthorne's mind had to disburden itself in some manner.

The Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne Stearns, Frank P 1906