All of which was a longwinded way of saying the Grass was overrunning Illinois.

Then Billy Harden gets the floor, and squares away fur a longwinded speech telling why.

We say that it is easier to teach a child by means of short pithy sentences than by longwinded and involved dittoes.

It could produce at once the longwinded rhapsodies of Filmer and, by repulsion, the wearisome reiterations of Algernon Sidney.

Judge Colver thereupon essayed, in his longwinded, heavy way, to impart to the new arrival the story they had just heard.