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

This letter is of too great longness already.

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

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

"But there's nothing beautiful about longness," persisted Mollie.

From The Happy Adventurers by Middleton, Lydia Miller

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