Definition of Tightnesses
1. tightness [n] - See also: tightness
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Literary usage of Tightnesses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Fors Clavigera: Letters to the Workmen and Labourers of Great Britain by John Ruskin (1872)
"The Tightnesses only perceived; the felicities only remembered ; the landscape
seen as if spring lasted always; the trees in blossom or fruitage evermore: ..."
2. Dramatic Values by Charles Edward Montague (1911)
"... achieved a wonderful proportion of separate Tightnesses of estimate, for one
whose critical method was a mere denial of method and almost of coherence. ..."
3. New Englander and Yale Review by Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight (1873)
"... the "absolute sanctities," and the "eternal Tightnesses," enact for us a higher
law than that on which the law and the prophets hang? We do not, indeed, ..."
4. A Treatise on the Venereal Disease by John Hunter, Ph. Ricord, Freeman Josiah Bumstead (1859)
"... some of which were more contracted than others ; and, indeed, many urethras
that have a stricture, have small tightnesses in other parts of them. ..."
5. Chambers's Information for the People by William Chambers, Robert Chambers (1842)
"The rapidity with which these vacuums or air-tightnesses are formed and destroyed,
is an exceedingly ..."
6. International Clinics: A Quarterly of Clinical Lectures by Henry W. Cattell, M. D. Witherspoon (1916)
"... a room that is thoroughly airy, massage of the muscles of the head which keep
the patient from feeling certain muscle tightnesses which he or she, ..."
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