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

And the longness or shortness of a vowel or syllable is said to be its quantity.

From A Handbook of the English Language by Latham, R. G. (Robert Gordon)

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

This letter is of too great longness already.

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

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 Brazil, Angela