If that was my idea of straightness she was sorry for me.
As a competitive exhibition Jimmy's straightness was pitiful.
For the good surface we had to thank modern times; for a straightness of direction, having the double advantage of saving labour and sometimes rendering a really exhilarating speed prudent, we had to thank the Roman invasion of Britain.
It ran first for five miles straight as an arrow; the straightness was apparent at the time, but the five miles seemed like twenty.
The chances are that before the day ends we shall have to "put up with" something worse in the way of surface, and it is certain that we shall not have to lament monotonous straightness later on.
With some persons absolute straightness of back comes almost naturally; with others the attainment of straightness is not a matter of much difficulty.
These are both holes of a fine length, and though with hitting an arrow-like straightness we may hope for fours, we need not make undue lamentations over fives.
Since his first exhaustive examination into its affairs, his doubts as to the possibility of conducting so mammoth a consolidation along conscientious lines had been dissipated by the absolute straightness of the course which Gorham steered.
His forehead was high, accentuated by the thinness of his face, but suggestive of strong mental capacity; and the straightness of his nose evidenced the strength of will which had done much to give him his present reputation as a business man.
Riley's anxiety to get his son down-stairs and into his own domain blinded him to the straightness of Jimmie's back and the severe lines in his face.
They grow with remarkable straightnessof stem and of grain, and their timber commands the highest price.
What has hitherto been said applies to all bows; but in self-bows attention must be paid to the straightness of the feathering of the wood.
The straightness of the arrow is easily tested by the following simple process.
It was not only the unsparing unapologetic ugliness and the rigid straightness which overwhelmed her.
Straightness upon a sphere means the following of an arc of a great circle.
That a straight line is a quantity added to a difference does not cause its being composed of the line, and of the property of straightness; for, were it thus composed, straightness would be its chief difference.
It shows at the top the same degree of irregularity and undulation as a sapling; and is transformed gradually into straightness lower down (see Fig.
You've guaranteed their straightness from the first.
Well proportioned, for so old and ill-clad a lady, did she show to be as she sprang back from him, surprised into height, straightness and lissome lines.
The whole attitude is arranged for ease, delicacy of touch, and extreme accuracy, whereas formerly simple straightness and power were the governing considerations.
When the pull begins to operate, both this and the wind will be working together, and the ball will be carried a much greater length, its straightness depending upon the accuracy of allowance.
In this respect I think the driving cleek is preferable to either the spoon or the driving mashie, particularly whenstraightness is an essential, as it usually is when any of these clubs is being handled.
To me thestraightness of our life is the straightness of a thin cord stretched tight.
The special characteristics of the numerous lines which intersect the whole of the equatorial and temperate regions of Mars are, their straightness combined with their enormous length.
She walked into the house, and as she rose she was neither bowed nor bent, but she trod the ground with a straightness which was not stiff but full of grace, and she moved royally like a goddess.
Another boy called Mason was consumed with longing for this stag beetle; and Bell had said he would give it to him in exchange for Mason's catapult, which was famous in the school for the unique straightness of its two prongs.
Something born of her own deep understanding told her, give this man straightness for straightness always if you would stand well with him; no begging the question, no subterfuge.
Indeed, the ease of his movements and the straightness of his carriage, with a certain indefinable precision of manner, led to a common agreement among his fellow-labourers that he had earlier in life accepted the king's shilling.
Most of the rivers which descend from the western side of the Alleghany mountains are of inconsiderable magnitude, and by no means remarkable, on account of the straightness of their course, or the rapidity of their currents.
In the straightness of its course, the rapidity and turbulence of its stream, it has a general resemblance to the other western tributaries of the Missouri.
He was a tall, well-favored man, and his tight-fitting clothes displayed the straightnessof his limbs as he leaned back in his chair, with his eyes which had a suggestive sparkle in them fixed on the girl.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "straightness" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
