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The narrator threw all his powers of description into the simultaneousness of Sally's arrival at this point and the gentleman walking straight over the pier-edge.

From Somehow Good by De Morgan, William Frend

They have invented a jargon about "simultaneousness," "dynamism," "ambience," and so forth, which is about as impressive as the writings of Mrs Eddy; and they paint in the same jargon in which they write.

From The Book of This and That by Lynd, Robert

Four minutes had been found to express indifference to indoor arrangements, and simultaneousness had implied too great an anxiety about meals.

From Under the Greenwood Tree, or, the Mellstock quire; a rural painting of the Dutch school by Hardy, Thomas

There appears also to be an incorrectness in the notion which occurs both here and in the Gorgias, of the simultaneousness of merely bodily pleasures and pains.

From Philebus by Jowett, Benjamin

The laughter came from two throats that breathed as one with such perfect simultaneousness that only one was credited with the disturbance.

From Penrod and Sam by Tarkington, Booth