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ALL DAY LONG
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I. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
During the entire day
Example:
light pours daylong into the parlor
Synonyms:
all day long; daylong
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Context examples:
Here you are in pursuit only of amusement all day long.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
Did not I see them together in Devonshire every day, and all day long; and did not I know that your sister came to town with me on purpose to buy wedding clothes?
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
“Because, instead of doing any good, she does nothing but tease me all day long.”
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
To have her haunting the Abbey, and thanking him all day long for his great kindness in marrying Jane?
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
Sometimes he fell and cut himself; sometimes he lay all day long in his little bunk at one side of the companion; sometimes for a day or two he would be almost sober and attend to his work at least passably.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
All day long the sound of revelry and of rejoicing from the crowded camp swelled up to the ears of the Englishmen, and they could see the soldiers of the two nations throwing themselves into each other's arms and dancing hand-in-hand round the blazing fires.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
“Upon my honour,” returned Markham, “town seems to sharpen a man's appetite. A man is hungry all day long. A man is perpetually eating.”
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
All day long we have travelled, and at a good speed.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
All sad feelings seemed now driven from the house, all gloomy associations forgotten: there was life everywhere, movement all day long.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
He whetted it up and down all day long.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
