1 The wish was rather eager than lasting.
2 Fanny thought exactly the same; and they were also quite agreed in their opinion of the lasting effect, the indelible impression, which such a disappointment must make on his mind.
3 Her attachment and regrets had, for a long time, clouded every enjoyment of youth, and an early loss of bloom and spirits had been their lasting effect.
4 It could not be very lasting, however.
5 First, because it is more lasting, and there is less hope to escape from it; and, second, because every commonwealth seeks to add to its own strength by weakening and enfeebling all beside.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo MachiavelliContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER II. 6 So far as the Latins are concerned, you can secure a lasting peace either by clemency or by severity.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo MachiavelliContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XXIII. 7 For had these matters been rightly understood from the first, and due remedies applied, the freedom of Rome had been far more lasting, and, possibly, less disturbed.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo MachiavelliContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XXIV. 8 I wonder he does not marry, to secure a lasting convenience of that kind.
9 He had ruined for a while every hope of happiness for the most affectionate, generous heart in the world; and no one could say how lasting an evil he might have inflicted.
10 We shall try to understand them fully during these few days so that we may derive from the understanding of them a lasting benefit to our souls.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James JoyceContext Highlight In Chapter 3 11 It's no use, my dear: he has not the slightest chance of promotion until we are quite sure that the peace will be a lasting one.
12 The scope of the society's work was to be extensive: it was to bring lasting happiness to humanity at large, from the banks of the Thames to the shores of Kamtchatka.
13 To attain this end we must secure a preponderance of virtue over vice and must endeavor to secure that the honest man may, even in this world, receive a lasting reward for his virtue.
14 But she gave us her blessing, and the assurance of her lasting friendship, and spoke to us, generally, as became a Voice from the Cloister.
15 Interweaving in its proper place this darker thread with the story as publicly narrated on the ship, the whole of this strange affair I now proceed to put on lasting record.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContext Highlight In CHAPTER 54. The Town-Ho's Story.