I have to admit that in "The Golden Bowl" and "The Wings of the Dove," you have succeeded in getting there after a fashion, in spite of the perversity of the method and its longness, which I am not the only one to deplore.
"The Letters of William James, Vol. II"
William James
I am not here concerned to argue generally for the shortness or longness of the periods of geological time; let us, for the purposes of argument, admit a very wide margin of centuries and ages; but some limit there must be.
"Creation and Its Records"
B.H. Baden-Powell
Her face, as I have said, was long and thin, but it was the longness and thinness of growing youth.
"Castle Richmond"
Anthony Trollope