prolongations

"It seems that there might be fears about our credit prolongations," an IVG spokesman said in an email.

Financing Is Hard to Find in Europe Craig Karmin 2011

Stuttering or stammering as it is called in the UK is characterized by repetitions of words or sounds and prolongations in the flow of speech.

Glenn D. Braunstein, M.D.: Understanding Stuttering M.D. Glenn D. Braunstein 2011

Stuttering or stammering as it is called in the UK is characterized by repetitions of words or sounds and prolongations in the flow of speech.

Glenn D. Braunstein, M.D.: Understanding Stuttering M.D. Glenn D. Braunstein 2011

He was a man who had been much given to royal visitings and attendances, to parties in the Highlands, to — no doubt necessary — prolongations of the London season, to sojournings at certain German watering-places, convenient, probably, in order that he might study the ways and ceremonies of German

The Small House at Allington 2004

For the further away the Romans sent their armies [from Rome], so much more did such prolongations appear necessary, and the more they employed them.

Discourses 2003

There I obtained a distant view of the ranges intersected yesterday, and of their prolongations.

Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia 2003

If the drop of blood be kept at the temperature of the body, these colourless corpuscles will be seen to exhibit a marvellous activity, changing their forms with great rapidity, drawing in and thrusting out prolongations of their substance, and creeping about as if they were independent organisms.

Autobiography and Selected Essays 2003

Algae and Fungi becomes, under many circumstances, partially, or completely, freed from its woody case, and exhibits movements of its whole mass, or is propelled by the contractility of one, or more, hair-like prolongations of its body, which are called vibratile cilia.

Autobiography and Selected Essays 2003

Symptomatically defined in brief as involuntary repetitions or prolongations of sounds with blocking or other spasmodic interruptions in the rhythmical flow of speech, stuttering may, from case to case, include blinking and other facial tics, tremors of the lips and jaw, gasping, stamping of the feet, jerking of the head, contortions of the whole body, and even foaming at the mouth as in an epileptic fit.

Knotted Tongues Benson Bobrick 1995

Its primary characteristics blockings, prolongations or repetitions of sound are often less conspicuous than its secondary manifestations, which range from subtle gestures to whole body convulsions in an effort to release or complete a sound.

Knotted Tongues Benson Bobrick 1995