longness
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"But there's nothing beautiful about longness," persisted Mollie.
From The Happy Adventurers by Lydia Miller Middleton
Long faces of the form pictured by No. 12 exaggerate the longness and leanness of their faces by wearing their locks like looped curtains.
From What Dress Makes of Us by Dorothy Quigley
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 Angela Brazil
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
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
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