longness
Example Sentences
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This letter is of too great longness already.
From Seven Maids of Far Cathay by Ed. Bing Ding
The longness or shortness of a vowel is one thing.
From A Handbook of the English Language by R. G. (Robert Gordon) Latham
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
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
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 Dorothy Quigley
