We went into one room containing only men suffering from chest wounds, who coughed and wheezed and constantly fought off the swarming flies that assailed them, and into another room given over entirely to brutally abbreviated human fragmentsfractional parts of men who had lost their arms or legs.

It had been abbreviated so commonly, however, that its full dignity seemed to daze him for the moment.

In many instances, however, he may conveniently abbreviate his explanation, by parsing the conjunction as connecting "what precedes and what follows;" or, if the terms are transposed, as connecting its own clause to the second, to the third, or to some other clause in the context.

The judiciously abbreviated English translation, however, contains many miscomprehensions.

Being weary he sat down here with his companions, the hill henceforth being nicknamed "Weary-All-Hill," locally abbreviated into "Werral.

al. make no mention of Rules for the application of Dash, needless, how to be treated between quotation and name of the author applied to side-title used to signify omission Dates, ordinarily abbreviated; how best written objectives in, without their prepositions Dative case, faulty relic, in Eng., of old Sax., ("It ascends ME into," &c., SHAK.)

BATH, ORDER OF THE, an English order of knighthood, traceable to the reign of Henry IV., consisting of three classes: the first, Knights Grand Cross; the second, Knights Commanders, and the third, Knights Companions, abbreviated respectively into G.C.B., K.C.B., and C.B.; initiation into the order originally preceded by immersion in a bath, whence the name, in token of the purity required of the members by the laws of chivalry.

Looking down at the chaparejos that he had been so proud of, sadly abbreviated to make boots for Nig, jagged here and there, and with fringes now not all intentional, it suited him to pretend that the "shaps" had suffered most.

They were wedded, ceremonially dined as befitted the occasion, and departed upon their hypothetical honeymoon, surreptitiously abbreviated from an extravagant swing over half of North America to seventy miles by rail and twenty by water,and a month of blissful seclusion, which suited those two far better than any amount of Pullman touring, besides leaving them money in pocket.