longness
Example Sentences
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His coat should be lengthened, as in sketch go, to cut off just as much of the longness of limb as can possibly be allowed without destroying artistic proportions.
From What Dress Makes of Us by Quigley, Dorothy
This letter is of too great longness already.
From Seven Maids of Far Cathay by Bing Ding, Ed.
The V-shaped arrangement, either in cut or trimmings, apparently increases her "longness and leanness."
From What Dress Makes of Us by Quigley, Dorothy
"But there's nothing beautiful about longness," persisted Mollie.
From The Happy Adventurers by Middleton, Lydia Miller
And the longness or shortness of a vowel or syllable is said to be its quantity.
From A Handbook of the English Language by Latham, R. G. (Robert Gordon)
