"Perhaps it is longness of voyage that is needed.

Freely attribute the longness of the letter to an unexpected bonus of leisure time, which I shall relate shortly.

Often the chroneme, or the "longness", acts like a consonant, and may have arisen from one etymologically, such as in Australian English.

Wherever possible, he had taken the cosmic view, had taken into consideration, for instance, such things as the shortness of life and the longness of eternity.

They were letting the grass express its natural inclination toward longness and reduced greenness, while their neighbors were handing them citations demanding a return to neatness and neighborliness.

I handed bags through the windows, and we were out on the dim longness of the platform, and the American lady put herself in charge of one of three men from Cook¡ s who said: ¡ Just a moment, madame, and I¡ ll look for your name.

Padre Manuel backed away pretty fast when all that long longness crawled out of the hole, but he came back wide-eyed when the space creature began to push himself together, shorter and shorter and ended up about a head taller than Padre Manuel and about twice as big around.