Example Sentences

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Her face, as I have said, was long and thin, but it was the longness and thinness of growing youth.

From Castle Richmond by Trollope, Anthony

"But there's nothing beautiful about longness," persisted Mollie.

From The Happy Adventurers by Middleton, Lydia Miller

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

The longness or shortness of a vowel is one thing.

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

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)