longness
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You see, the shortness or longness of them makes the difference in the notes, and the distance between gives the time.
From A Terrible Tomboy by Angela Brazil
Her face, as I have said, was long and thin, but it was the longness and thinness of growing youth.
From Castle Richmond by Anthony Trollope
"But there's nothing beautiful about longness," persisted Mollie.
From The Happy Adventurers by Lydia Miller Middleton
And the longness or shortness of a vowel or syllable is said to be its quantity.
From A Handbook of the English Language by R. G. (Robert Gordon) Latham
The longness or shortness of a syllable another.
From A Handbook of the English Language by R. G. (Robert Gordon) Latham
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