compactness

Example Sentences

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As I have remarked, the pilots' association was now the compactest monopoly in the world, perhaps, and seemed simply indestructible.

From Life on the Mississippi, Part 3. by Twain, Mark

After such incubation, he will recognize his natural food, and compactest fuel for the lamp of life.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 59, September, 1862 by Various

"The tiniest, compactest kingdom," she went on in a musing tone, "sequestered in a nook of the world."

From The Courtship of Morrice Buckler A Romance by Mason, A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley)

And so I bowed to fate, and converted the drab portmanteau and all its contents into the compactest form.

From The Recipe for Diamonds by Hyne, Charles John Cutcliffe Wright

We claimed two hundred feet each—six hundred feet in all—the smallest and compactest organization in the district, and the easiest to manage.

From Roughing It, Part 4. by Twain, Mark