Example Sentences

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In my countree there is not such mans of so beegness, so good talk, so compliments, so strongness of sense and such.

From Roads of Destiny by Henry, O.

But the eye neglected these details, and was irresistibly drawn by the strongness of her face.

From A Master of Fortune Being Further Adventures of Captain Kettle by Wood, Stanley L.

And sudden, it put forth an utter power about my body, so that mine armour did be like to crack; and truly I had died in a moment; but for the strongness of the armour.

From The Night Land by Hodgson, William Hope

"It can't be the bigness," she murmured; "it must mean the hotness and strongness."

From Little Maid Marian by Blanchard, Amy Ella

"You shall now, if I have misapprehended you not, develop a new strongness of the character."

From The Spenders A Tale of the Third Generation by Wilson, Harry Leon