longness

Example Sentences

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The V-shaped arrangement, either in cut or trimmings, apparently increases her "longness and leanness."

From What Dress Makes of Us by Quigley, Dorothy

The longness or shortness of a syllable another.

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

This letter is of too great longness already.

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

The longness or shortness of a vowel is one thing.

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

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 Brazil, Angela