A little more hardship, and the long process of fortune-building is shortened to a few months.

There was usually a school attached to every convent, and manual labor was shortened in favor of students.

The Angles, an important Teutonic tribe, furnished the name for the new home, which was called Angle-land, afterward shortened into England.

The days are shortening with frightful rapidity, and the great bay was actually covered with a skim of ice this very morning.

He began to talk to me in the usual silly cant I have so often heard from him, which I shortened by telling him I desired not to be troubled with it; that professions were of no use where actions were expected; and that the only thing could give me hopes of a good conduct was regularity and truth.

Most of the other pupils had gone home, for vacation days were near, and study hours were shortened on account of examinations.

The two terms overlap; but there is a fairly strong tendency to use shorten for reduction in length, and abridge for reduction in quantity or mass.

To which our author makes a reply, which cannot be shortened without weakening it: "Upon what does this author ground his sentence?

The rite of the Mass has been shortened at all other seasons, and there remains now only the greeting, Oremus, and the collect itself.

In the third class, again, no miracle is proclaimed unless the cure is either instantaneous, or the period of it very considerably shortened beyond all known examples of natural cure by suggestion.

Already they have had hours shortened from the old irregular schedule of twelve, fourteen and even sixteen hours a day to an eight-hour workday for all, as far as practicable.

It seems as if we look at them shortened through the large end of a telescope.

A cast-iron bar one inch square and ten feet long, is shortened about one tenth of an inch by a compressing force of 10,000 lbs., whereas a malleable iron bar of the same dimensions would require to shorten it equally a compressing force of 20,000 lbs.