longdrawn

He heard a confused music within him as of memories and names which he was almost conscious of but could not capture even for an instant; then the music seemed to recede, to recede, to recede, and from each receding trail of nebulous music there fell always one longdrawn calling note, piercing like a star the dusk of silence.

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man 2003

A chord, longdrawn, expectant, drew a voice away. —

Ulysses 2003

A guttural call in a low voice startled him, -- a subdued longdrawn

The Young Seigneur Or, Nation-Making Wilfrid Ch��teauclair

Digue, or Dyke, a great longdrawn-out breakwater against whose cemented walls pound the furies of the North Sea with such a virulence and force as to make one seasick even on land.

The Automobilist Abroad

The hour may come when earth no more shall keep Tireless her longdrawn voyage through the deep; Nay, when all planets seeped and swept in one Fed from our kindly solitary sun; Nay, when all suns that shine, together hurled, Crash in one ultimate and lifeless world.

Scientific Imperialism 1920

He heard a confused music within him as of memories and names which he was almost conscious of but could not capture even for an instant; then the music seemed to recede, to recede, to recede, and from each receding trail of nebulous music there fell always one longdrawn calling note, piercing like a star the dusk of silence.

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Joyce, James, 1882-1941 1922

He heard a confused music within him as of memories and names which he was almost conscious of but could not capture even for an instant; then the music seemed to recede, to recede, to recede, and from each receding trail of nebulous music there fell always one longdrawn calling note, piercing like a star the dusk of silence.

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Joyce, James, 1882-1941 1922

When we were ordered to retire to Missionary Ridge many were the longdrawn sighs of relief that we had escaped from this threatened and, as we felt, certain doom.

Reminiscences of a soldier of the Orphan brigade, 1918

She watched Rickety slacken his run as that longdrawn yell began, so wild and high that it put a tingle in her nose.

Alcatraz Max Brand 1918

He heard a confused music within him as of memories and names which he was almost conscious of but could not capture even for an instant; then the music seemed to recede, to recede, to recede, and from each receding trail of nebulous music there fell always one longdrawn calling note, piercing like a star the dusk of silence.

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man James Joyce 1911