| 1. | To prolong doubt was to prolong hope. - from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte |
| 2. | My only chance is to prolong my opportunities. - from Dracula by Bram Stoker |
| 3. | To expel sickness, but prolong his hou. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 4. | I would prolong awhile the traitor's life. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 5. | 'Stay' she added, disengaging her hand, 'why should we prolong this painful intervie. - from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens |
| 6. | Shall he prolong one Trojan's forfeit breat. - from The Iliad of Homer by Homer |
| 7. | But two tendencies which help decidedly to prolong life are under-eating and his refusal to dissipate. - from How to Analyze People on Sight by Elsie Lincoln Benedict and Ralph Paine Benedict |
| 8. | He was absolutely convinced that nothing could be done to prolong his brother's life or to relieve his suffering. - from Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy |
| 9. | "Hold, sir," said Villefort, "do not prolong this dreadful scene. - from The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, Pere |
| 10. | To life prolongd and promisd Race, I no. - from Paradise Lost by John Milton |
| 11. | This physic but prolongs thy sickly days. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 12. | My mother stays This physic but prolongs thy sickly days. - from Hamlet by William Shakespeare |
| 13. | There always is a last wound like that which will not close, and which prolongs the dressings indefinitely, to the great annoyance of the sick person. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 14. | Aramis received a ball which passed through his shoulder, and Mousqueton another ball which lodged in the fleshy part which prolongs the lower portion of the loins. - from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas, Pere |