longness

Example Sentences

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This letter is of too great longness already.

From Seven Maids of Far Cathay by Bing Ding, Ed.

The longness or shortness of a syllable another.

From A Handbook of the English Language by Latham, R. G. (Robert Gordon)

"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)

Her face, as I have said, was long and thin, but it was the longness and thinness of growing youth.

From Castle Richmond by Trollope, Anthony