If Harry Collins, longtime fugitive from a government treatment center, tried to take his story to the people, he'd be silenced without a hearing.
"This Crowded Earth"
Robert Bloch
It was time to return to the schooners, as they had been absent all day, and it was not advisable to leave them for a longtime.
"The Second String"
Nat Gould
Allusion has already been made to his use of the appointing power, but how clearly he held it as a "public trust" is shown in a letter to his longtime friend Benjamin Harrison, who asked him for an office.
"The True George Washington [10th Ed.]"
Paul Leicester Ford