setness

• “But Persis has the kind of setness that doesn't take no account of reason.”

  Other People's Business The Romantic Career of the Practical Miss Dale

• “Dana's having inherited "setness" for his patrimony.”

  Meadow Grass Tales of New England Life

• “Samuel Foster Crittenden as I do; and the reason he is so congenial with his mules is that he is so like them in "setness" of disposition.”

  Over Paradise Ridge A Romance

• “But we found that when we deviated from the specific setness of the mathematical code that underlies is the simple algorithm, crochet three, increase one.”

  TED: Margaret Wertheim on the beautiful math of coral

• “Little by little his features took on that look of hard and dangerous setness which always seemed so doubly threatening upon his placidly round countenance.”

  Then I'll Come Back to You

• “A stray sunbeam, too, fluttered down on the floor like a pitying spirit, to light up that pale, thin face, whose classic outlines had now a sharp, yellow setness, like that of swooning or death; it seemed to linger compassionately on the sunken, wasted cheeks, on the long black lashes that fell over the deep hollows beneath the eyes like a funereal veil.”

  The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 49, November, 1861

• “The face was lined as if the stress of living had drawn its muscles into habitual tensity, and except when a smile relieved the setness of the mouth his countenance was stern to severity.”

  Flood Tide

• “They do so regard us, though; and, with true British setness, I suppose they always will.”

  Europe Revised

• “There is a mysterious immovable setness about the Sussex Downs.”

  Masters of the Guild

• “There was always some story or other going round about old Henry's setness.”

  Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1896 to 1901

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