Afflicted with catarrhal affections, manacled by the fetters of dreadfully acute rheumatism, some contrived for a while to get over the shortening day's march and drag along some others.

Instead of shortening sail, the fore and main tacks were boarded, and the top-gallant-sails set.

A weary eventless night it was, a night as of many years, as worse and worse grew the weak frame; and Tom looked alternately at the heaving chest, and shortening breath, and rattling throat, and then at the pale still face of the lady.

In its summary the American Association for Labor Legislation says: "Eleven States strengthened their child labor laws, by raising age limits, extending restrictions to new employments, or shortening hours.

He never over-tasked his brain, or suffered himself, like Raphael,who died exhausted at thirty-seven,to crowd three days into one, knowing that over-work exhausts the nervous energies and shortens life.

But my shortening space warns me to stop; and I must cease, for the present, from these thoughts of Future Years,cease, I mean, from writing about that mysterious tract before us: who can cease from thinking of it?

From the meagre official summary we gather that the absence of reporters has at least the negative advantage of shortening speeches.

He recognized, in fact, a vowel accent and a consonant accent; or, in reference to quantity, a lengthening accent and a shortening accent.

"Don't you remember how you've said right along that you weren't afraid of ghosts?" "Well, I'm not," said Billie stoutly, while her eyes searched the far corners of the room which were beginning to get very indistinct and creepy in the flickering uncertain light of the fast shortening candles.

They argued concerning this for many days, days of the ending of summer, of shortening evenings, and as they argued autumn grew nearer and nearer and the green letter from China.

Not even the parole laws, which provide various reasons and ways for shortening sentences, ever lay down the rule that one may be released when he has reformed.