In the Senate there was a protracted struggle.
His pontificate was marked by protracted controversies with France and Portugal.
The argument was protracted and at length grew angry.
In Ceara the smaller rivers become dry channels in the dry season, and in protracted droughts the larger ones disappear also.
Thus the liability to tubercular infection is far commoner in the midst of a depraved population than in one fulfilling the primary laws of nature; rickets is a disease of great cities rather than of rural districts; and syphilis is more disastrous and protracted in its course in the depraved in health than in the robust.
