not protracted
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It spoke of moderate labours, of pleasures not protracted after sun-set, of temperance, and good-hours.
From The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb
Why was it not protracted: for it was not?
From The White Gauntlet by Mayne Reid
A bath, blood warm, or a little cooler than the skin, is safe for all constitutions, if not protracted over half an hour.
From A Treatise on Domestic Economy For the Use of Young Ladies at Home and at School by Catharine Esther Beecher
Thus the pain of lingering in sight of the city, his home, was not protracted for the rhapsode.
From Istar of Babylon A Phantasy by Margaret Horton Potter
It spoke of moderate labors, of pleasures not protracted after sunset, of temperance and good hours.
From Old-Time Gardens Newly Set Forth by Alice Morse Earle
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