Meanings
- idiomaticOf a document, composition, or other entity: as long as a book; i.e. very long or extensive.
When he dedicated his book-length poem Hesperia to a patronymically disguised but not entirely fictional lady, Richard Henry Wilde wrote that she had "advised me to attempt a poem of some length, in hopes that an occupation ...
1956, University of Tennessee Studies in the Humanities, volumes 1-6, page 752 more examples
While I feel badly perhaps contributing to the underappreciation of these arthropods, particularly in the realm of sociality, I take some comfort in the knowledge that book-length treatments of some of these groups are under way.
2006, James T. Costa, The Other Insect Societies, page 667In from Sand Creek, a book-length sequence of untitled short poems accompanied by prose fragments, Simon Ortiz attempts to document a massacre of Southern Cheyenne and Arapaho by the U.S. cavalry in 1864 and the effects of this historical event on Native people in the author's time.
2007, Jennifer McClinton-Temple, Alan Velie (editors), Encyclopedia of American Indian Literature
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