What is "overlong"

Usage examples of "overlong".

Pooley placed his perfect pint upon the bar counter, took out his packet of Dadarillos, removed from it an overlong ciggie and lit up.

Nor did they have the overlong arms, the flat noses depressed at the base common to the Gabun, Congo, or Mozambique types.

Her thin lips, the color of calf liver, drew back enough to expose her overlong and oversharp canines.

Blue eyes peered out from behind a scraggle of overlong ebony hair that well-suited the sixties style.

He shrieked as razorlike, overlong canines ripped open one side of his face.

The guards held a finely honed sense of suspicion for anyone who hovered overlong, and the assault-issue heavy crossbows cradled in their arms were kept locked back.

Sailors settled themselves for fast sleep in awkward positions, while others worked overlong on cleaning claws and chiv, the only weapons they had.

He kept it overlong to hide the depilated circles where the electrodes fit.

As it was, the two shows both ran overlong, because the audiences were so enthusiastic and demanded so many encores and bows of every performer.

Mikhyel, the color rising above his dark beard, closed the door si lently behind her, the set of his narrow shoulders and his overlong delay at the door betraying the depth of his mortification.

I will not dwell upon the matter overlong, but will tell as speedily as may be of how that stout fellow, Robin Hood, died as he had lived, not at court as Earl of Huntingdon, but with bow in hand, his heart in the greenwood, and he himself a right yeoman.