longness

Example Sentences

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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)

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

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 Quigley, Dorothy

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

From What Dress Makes of Us by Quigley, Dorothy