protract

But the growing crops are too cleanly and carefully weeded and too uniformly good to protract the illusion.

I have again revived, but it is only to protract my course for a little time longer.

With all his skill, the persistent and adroit minister had been unable to protract negotiations longer than the eighteenth.

When a dressing is put on, do not remove it, as it will be sure to protract the cure, by admitting the air.

I must not protract a tale already far too long, by the recital of my acquaintance with the gallant Twenty-sixth.