Possible Clues:

• Extended
• Drew out at last half way along the street
• It was longer for the saint to have got sick of it
• Drawn at long last to have been sick at the end of the street
• The short street extended till one was sick of it
• Made longer or wider by pulling
• Holy man gagged and put on the rack
• Longed, perhaps, to have thrown up at the end of the short street
• Like some truths
• Extended, one's limbs perhaps