Shortened

Examples

• I would rather bear tediousness, dear, than have time made short by such means as have shortened mine. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• After a silence of some minutes she observed-- With her constitution she should have lived to a good old age: her life was shortened by trouble. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• When the colour is absent from only one of the two upper petals, the nectary is not quite aborted but is much shortened. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• I do not think, he said, that the way could have been shortened. Plato. The Republic.
• About the same time the look-out on the Arrow must have discerned it, for in a few minutes Tarzan saw the sails being shifted and shortened. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• Its aspect was altered since the days had shortened and the weather had grown cold. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Although it cost $33,000,000 and required seven years for completion, the labor-saving cableways greatly cheapened its cost and shortened the time of its construction. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• The daily visits I could make him were shortened now, and he was more strictly kept. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• My friend shortened the harangue, by taking the man's torch from him; and we proceeded alone. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• And now since 1880, the chemists are pushing aside the vegetable processes, and substituting mineral processes, by which tanning is still further shortened and cheapened. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• The bends of the two streams shortened the line that had been chosen for intrenchments, while it increased the area which the line inclosed. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• At the end of the three weeks, the time during which the pickerel persisted each day had been shortened and shortened, until it was at last discovered that he didn't try at all. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• He is known about the ship as the Interrogation Point, and this by constant use has become shortened to Interrogation. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.

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