They saluted with a nod, and began recounting for each other's benefit the daylong-doings of the weather, as it had affected their individual experience and followed their prophecies.
"The Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith"
George Meredith
daylong they worked under the growing roof, One at his leopard, one the staring ram, And he winning his eagle from the stone, Until each man had carved one image out, Arow beyond the portal of the house.
"Georgian Poetry 1913-15"
Edited by E. M. (Sir Edward Howard Marsh)
Their manner of life in that first fortnight of mutual adoration had the exquisite and ephemeral beauty of a daylong flower.
"Carnival"
Compton Mackenzie