Shorter

Examples

• If your crop comes shorter into market than any of theirs, you won't lose your bet, I suppose? Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• But we shall take a shorter cut through the furze than you can go with long clothes; so we won't trouble you to wait. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• It is much shorter, and probably not quite so exact as that of the French taxes. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Shorter and easier. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• Mrs. Murray made it, and it's sure to be right; it may be a straw's breadth shorter or longer-waisted, according to my having grown fat or thin. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• His legs were very robust, but shorter than legs of good proportions should have been. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• In many cases, it is preferable to exert a force of 30 pounds, for example, over the distance _CA_ than a force of 120 pounds over the shorter distance _BA_. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Why, my limbs only made my breath shorter when I used 'em. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• Long periods of slowness and stagnation have alternated with shorter or longer periods of prolific growth, and these with seasons of slumber and repression. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• The approach end of the bed, approximately eighteen feet long, is constructed of maple, with each alternate strip of the 3 x 1-inch bed stock about eighteen inches shorter. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• McClernand was in person on the middle road and had a shorter distance to march to reach the enemy's position than McPherson. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• I know a shorter way than that he has taken. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• A short railway journey and a shorter walk brought us to Fairbank, the modest residence of the great financier. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• This machine could do the work of many spinners, and in a much shorter time. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• The more curved the lens, the shorter the focal length, and the nearer the focus is to the lens. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• He did not see that whether he took the longer or the shorter road, no advance could be made in this way. Plato. The Republic.
• It was only after repeated experiments that it was learned that the shorter guns carried the projectile the greatest distance. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• From San Francisco to Buenos Aires, via Valparaiso and Magellan, is approximately 7,610 miles, which is shorter than the route through the canal, by which the distance is 8,941 miles. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The shorter the pipe, the higher the pitch. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• He had the shorter nose and longer upper lip of his sister rather than the fine traits of his brother. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• To think it out through the future, is a harder though a much shorter task than to think it out through the past. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• The Union lines were shorter than those of the enemy. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• When I paced one corridor and found it six feet shorter than the corresponding one below, it was pretty clear where he was. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• It's shorter and simpler in Spanish. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• If the position of our front had not changed, the road which Wallace took would have been somewhat shorter to our right than the River road. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The other parties will take shorter journeys. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• I heard a heavy puffing and blowing coming towards us, and soon Mr. Omer, shorter-winded than of yore, but not much older-looking, stood before me. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• The shorter the air column, the higher the pitch. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Besides, the oncoming material would thus be gradually raised in temperature instead of being heated abruptly, as in the shorter kilns. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Miss Trotwood, you had better stop this; or I'll stop your husband shorter than will be pleasant to you. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.

Editor: Ronda