Possible Clues:

• The long version lacks nothing in measurement
• Starts to look elsewhere, not getting the hoped-for distance
• Staying power
• It's no good being consigned to endless oblivion for a stretch
• Linear dimension
• Inseam measure
• That's what you'd be longing for
• Belong with it?
• Measure of distance, end to end
• Long for the twisted glen at first