Which brings us back to the point whence ensued this long digression.

I come, after this long digression, to the courts of the Quakers.

This roughness he justifies by great examples, in a long digression.

I return now, after this long digression, to the continuation of my history.

To return to our story after this long digression:-

After this long digression, I return to the burial, which was a most vile thing.

But this long digression has carried me far away.

Aubrey described it in a long digression 'for the sake of the lovers of antiquity', ed.

I have made a long digression, but willingly.

Now let us come back, after this long digression, to the conversation with the intelligent Englishman.

Pray forgive this long digression, and give me the hearing a little longer; for, thank heaven!

But to return from this long digression.

Accordingly a very long digression follows on the origin, progress, and decline of Tragedy, Comedy, and Pantomime.

This is a long digression, but liberavi animam meam, and now I return to my main subject.

Pardon, sir, this long digression; it will show to you how much your poetic conceptions occupy us here.

To return from this long digression.