The inspired father Gassner, of Bavaria, ascribed all diseases, lameness, palsy, etc, to diabolical agency, contending from the history of Job, Saul, and others recorded in sacred writ, that Satan, as the grand enemy of mankind, has a power to embitter and shorten our lives by diseases.

No sooner was he over the side, than the captain gave orders to shorten sail.

"Since old Ann's death, six months ago, she says she has been miserable, and if she goes on like this, it will shorten the few days that are left her.

Our horses were all fresh and of excellent stock, and we soon began shortening the distance between ourselves and the redskins.

And it was nothing to her that the air was less bright there, for her mind was full of light, so that, though her heart still fluttered a little with all that had passed, she had no longing to return, nor to shorten the way, but went by the lower road sweetly, with the stranger hanging upon her, who was stronger and taller than she.

They had also blazed the trees, shortening the road by pointing out its true direction.

But now, just as you have shortened your reins for the fortieth time or so, your master rides up beside you.

They were unable to recommend the adoption of the Swiss system, partly because the initial training was not, in their judgment, sufficient for the purpose, and partly because they held that the modern method of extending the training to all classes, while shortening its duration, involves the employment of instructors of the highest possible qualifications.

Babette was just considering whether going through it would shorten her journey, when a woman, dressed in the ordinary peasant costume of the country, emerged from it and came towards her with quick, firm steps.

In London this process is very simple, and as our butchers have found that much skewering back, doubling one part over another, or scoring the inner cuticle or fell, tends to spoil the meat and shorten the time it would otherwise keep, they avoid all such treatment entirely.

In more than twenty additional States existing acts were amended, the changes being marked by a tendency to extend the scope, shorten the working period, and increase provision for medical care.

I would have hated the yellow fogs had they not sometimes shortened the hours of my bondage.

What your action may bewhether it will shorten the war, and how much, no one here yet knows.

"I rather guess you had better shorten your visit," continued the pedlar, coolly.

There had been a struggle in the dim light, and Byron, having received the first lunge harmlessly in his waistcoat, had shortened his sword and run his adversary through the body, with the boast, not uncharacteristic of his grand nephew, "By G-d, I have as much courage as any man in England.

Slightly shortened version prev.

To conclude, I am satisfied that under ordinary circumstances, to pass through the Sulu Sea will shorten by several days the passage to Manila or Canton, and be a great saving of expense in the wear and tear of a ship and her canvass.

As a prose writer Dryden had a very marked influence on our literature in shortening his sentences, and especially in writing naturally, without depending on literary ornamentation to give effect to what he is saying.

" "What shortened its legs and made its feet become so large?" asked Sagastao.

It will greatly shorten certain traffic and trade routes, you know.

" "'Ere, come now," objected the shopkeeper, shortening his arm and squinting along it.

" "Was it done to shorten his sufferings?"

And, to shorten the story of my shame, I became his mistress.

She seemed more hurt than angry, and began by saying: "On account of thy bad conduct, Mrs. Stein is going to shorten her stay.

Since your Lordship will shorten the length of my follies relation, the woman that I so passionately love, is no worse Lady then your owne Neece, the too worthy Countesse Eugenia.