Both Uses of
protracted
in
Middlemarch
- I would fain have returned home earlier that we might have been at Lowick for the Christmas; but my inquiries here have been protracted beyond their anticipated period.†
Chpt 2 *
- It was rather irritating to him, even with the wine of love in his veins, to be obliged to mingle so often with the family party at the Vincys', and to enter so much into Middlemarch gossip, protracted good cheer, whist-playing, and general futility.†
Chpt 4
Definition:
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(protracted) relatively long in duration