"Lengthiness" Quotes from Famous Books
... as near as I can recollect it, omitting only some of my profuse apologies—for I was covered with shame and humiliation that I, a Square, should have been guilty of the impertinence of feeling a Circle. It was commenced by the Stranger with some impatience at the lengthiness of my introductory process. ... — Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions (Illustrated) • Edwin A. Abbott |