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Sentences starting with short

Short led the way; with the flat box, the private luggage (which was not extensive) tied up in a bundle, and a brazen trumpet slung from his shoulder-blade. [12]
Short beguiled the time with songs and jests, and made the best of everything that happened. [12]
Short stories, slender poems, steel engravings, on a level with the common fashion-plates of advertising establishments, gilt edges, resplendent binding,--to manifestations of this sort our lighter literature had very largely run for some years. [6]
Short work he made of the distance to the circle of canyons. [13]
Short of that, I think I am safe. [8]
Short shook his head, and wished he knew himself. [12]
Short may complain, but if Codlin grumbles by so much as a word--oh dear, down with him, down with him directly. [12]
Short of actual battle, this new strife was the keenest ever known, for Sir Hugh Pawlett was ranged on the side of the Seigneur of Rozel. [11]
Short and slight, and a little bent, but more from habit --the habit of listening and watching--than from age, his face had a stern kind of earnestness and loneliness, and nothing at all of insanity. [11]
Short leave. [4]

Sentences ending with short

There was a wondering and eloquent silence for a moment, then a great wave of laughter began to sweep along that human sea, but a warning bugle-blast cut its career short. [5]
The only trouble was that the trip was too short. [5]
The personal letter was short. [11]
The Terror's hair was not naturally abundant, like Euthymia's, and she kept it cut rather short. [6]
In the country village where there are no theatres the people make dramas out of each other's lives; the most trivial incidents are magnified and talked about--dramatized, in short. [4]
But none struck us, and presently all fell short. [11]
Angel ran quickly towards the door, then stopped short. [11]
So he said to Harry, "That's your disadvantage in being short. [5]
He who attempts to follow them has a business for life; but his life may be short. [4]
But Felix Marchand there--" He stopped short. [11]

Short sentences using short

The short secondary wing-feather (Fig. [1]
How short those summer days? [9]
And there she stopped short. [9]
You must--" He stopped short. [11]
How are you, Short? [12]
Prince Andrew stopped short. [2]
He cut Bolkonski short. [2]
The conference was short. [11]
Presently Ferens stopped short. [11]
It was, in short, "religion. [4]

Sentences containing short two or more times

He has little time for the poetry of haying, as he struggles along, filling the air with the wet mass which he shakes over his head, and picking his way with short legs and bare feet amid the short and freshly cut stubble. [4]
I have found this out," said she, cutting short my objections, "in spite of the short time I have been here. [9]
But ten of them say what pier she struck; three of them testify that she struck first the short, then the long and then the short for the last time. [7]
As to the short time of incubation, of which so much is made, we have no right to decide beforehand whether it shall be long or short, in the cases we are considering. [3]
This was a short and stout crowbar of iron; not one of the long crowbars that farmers use to pry up stones, but a short handy one, such as you would use in digging silver-ore out of the cracks of rocks. [4]
He was short of provisions, short of arms, short of ammunition, short of military wisdom, short of everything but courage and devotion to duty. [5]
My next proposition is that after she struck the short and long pier and before she got back to the short pier the boat got right with her bow up. [7]
We shall not despise translations of short stories, but otherwise the matter will all be original, and, of course, it won't all be short stories. [8]
I thought I could cut a long story short, but I seem to be cutting a short story long. [8]
Its effects fall as far short of what might have been expected from its virulence as the pearly vaccine vesicle falls short of the terrors of the confluent small-pox. [6]

More example sentences with the word short in them

It's remarkable how you've come to understand, and in such a short time. [9]
You must prepare yourself to hear a short story. [10]
Have you not yourself seen, even in your short life, that what is highest and greatest can in its excess, be all that is most hideous? [10]
We gave you your option, to scale down on a fair estimate of the earnings of the short line (the A. and B. [4]
Your generous heart, your love of truth, and your beautiful reverence for the gods, your courage and heroism, in short, every thing that I love and honor in you, I shall give to the hero of my tale. [10]
To-night Summon up your courage, for there are things which even a man--To make the story short, then: Tonight Wolff Eysvogel and young Vorchtel quarreled, or rather Ulrich irritated your Wolff so cruelly that he drew his sword--" "Wolff! [10]
There was a young naval officer in full dress, gold-buckled shoes, white trousers, short jacket with gold swab on shoulders, dress-sword and smart gait making for supper at King's House. [11]
No doubt the Young Girl was capricious in setting the little engine at work, but she cut short a good many disquisitions that threatened to be tedious. [6]
Without heeding the young Burgrave Eitelfritz or Sir Boemund Altrosen, who were just approaching her, she forced her way nearer to her father, He still maintained his self-control, but already the veins on his brow had swollen and his short figure was rigidly erect. [10]
In short, if you will set me down at Saville, I am willing to take my chances of reaching the Canadian Pacific from that point without fear of detection. [9]
It is not you who can look ahead two short years and see the ship of Democracy splitting on the rocks at Charleston and at Baltimore, when the power of your name might have steered her safely. [9]
And what do you think of a Pallas with short woolly hair; of the Charities with broad, flat Ethiopian feet; and an Egyptian, with his shaven head mirroring the sun, as Phoebus Apollo? [10]
Another one tells you that this is an exaggeration; that the two chief villages, Port Louis and Curepipe, fall short of heavenly perfection; that nobody lives in Port Louis except upon compulsion, and that Curepipe is the wettest and rainiest place in the world. [5]
I should tell you that this doubt has been confirmed into something very nearly approaching certainty by the best opinions we have been enabled, in this short space of time, to take upon the subject. [12]
But it made you seem sorrowfully trivial, and the creature of a day, and such a short and paltry day, too. [5]
When I postponed you lately, I did it because I thought I should be cramped for money until January, but that has turned out to be an error, so I hasten to cut short the postponement. [5]
My existence, as you know, is an uncertain quantity, and may be cut short at any moment in the ordinary course of things. [11]
In short, do you know who he is? [9]
Oh, dam-- But you finish it, dear, I am running short of vocabulary today. [5]
In short, that you are the coming man in this section of the state. [9]
The storm was yet as heavy as it had been yestereve; howbeit, though Bayard sank into the snow so deep that I swept it with the hem of my kirtle, yet the ride to the forest-lodge meseemed was as short as though I had flown. [10]
There would be yet a half-hour's sun and then a short twilight, and the river and the woods and the Rest of the Flax-beaters would be her own; and she could think of the wonderful thing come upon her. [11]
In all the years he had taken no chance to pay tribute to the woman who, in a real sense, had been his mistress of body and mind for one short term of life, and who once, and once only, had yielded to him. [11]
We expend more yearly for apprehending and trying those caught, for the machinery of criminal justice, and for the recurring farce of imprisoning on short sentences and discharging those felons to go on with their work of swindling and robbing. [4]
In the stern Xavier stood immovable against the tiller, his short pipe clutched between his teeth, the colors of his new worsted belt made gorgeous by the rising sun. [9]
In short, it would be much more agreeable if it extended to its own members something of the consideration and sympathy that it gives to those it regards as its inferiors. [4]
And are the worst wages paid in these mills anything short of death? [9]
She makes short work with all the pretenders whose only excuse for appealing to the public is that they "want to be famous. [6]
It made short work of the experimenter--and of his family, too, if he murdered somebody who belonged up among the ornamental ranks. [5]
He made short work of all offenders. [5]
The weeks again wore on, and autumn became winter, and then at last one day the Cure came, bringing his brother, a great Parisian surgeon lately arrived from France on a short visit. [11]
The Mayor's polite words had caused the long, clean-shaven upper lip of the old man with the look of a debauched prophet, to lengthen surlily; and he noticed that a wide, flat foot in a big knee-boot, inside trousers too short, tapped the ground impatiently. [11]
She wore heavy woollen rider's stockings, half length, and these were pulled up over the ends of her short trousers. [13]
I tried to woo her, but she cut my words short, said I was a noble man, and a worthy suitor but--" "There came the but. [10]
It is small wonder that Mrs. Short was looked upon as the head of the outraged party. [9]
The weary old woman had wanted to return home long before, but the command of the grand chamberlain compelled her to wait for Barbara and accompany her the short distance to the house. [10]
The cooks vied with them and with each other, and as if by magic, in a short space of time a richly-adorned banquet for the hungry guests appeared, at which even the flowers were not wanting. [10]
A short conversation with the steward confirmed this opinion. [10]
A heavy thud with the knocker rang through the silent street, and after a few short questions from within and equally curt replies from without, a small door was opened in the great gate. [10]
Her heart beat with short, quick, painful jerks; an invisible burthen weighed upon her and prevented her breathing freely. [10]
Clapping her hands with pleasure and running on before me for a short distance, my little acquaintance stopped at a door and remaining on the step till I came up knocked at it when I joined her. [12]
He took post with Judge Short at the foot of the stair, where, in spite of the protests of the Celebrity and of other well-disposed persons, the two favored the parting guests with an occasional impromptu song and waved genial good-byes to the ladies. [9]
Our author wrote with great facility and rapidity when the inspiration was on him, and produced an astonishing amount of manuscript in a short period; but he often waited and fretted through barren weeks and months for the movement of his fitful genius. [4]
Nicholas was short with curly hair and an open expression. [2]
A French corporal, with coat unbuttoned in a homely way, a skullcap on his head, and a short pipe in his mouth, came from behind a corner of the shed and approached Pierre with a friendly wink. [2]
How strange that, with all his thought of others, he should fall short here! [9]
It is long, with a short cross-bar, and the cross-bar is canted out of the straight line. [5]
Mercy," she said, with a quick gesture at my protest, "there are few men with whom one might talk thus in so short an acquaintance. [9]
The architect himself wished to take advantage of this time to refresh himself by a short sleep, for the exertions of the morrow, but between this intention and its fulfilment an obstacle was interposed, the preposterous dimensions namely of his guest. [10]
In short, Hodder wished to go into battle side by side with McCrae. [9]
In short, I wish we could gain time, and see how she gets on. [14]
And here I wish to take breath for a short, separate paragraph. [6]
The casks of wine he had drunk in his short life were telling now, and his thrusts grew weaker. [9]
I hope you will write often; and as you write more rapidly than I do, don't make your letters so short as mine. [7]
In short, you will not go to the convent? [10]
The lowest classes will detain us for a very short time, but the higher animals, especially birds, must be treated at considerable length. [1]
Otherwise their day will be short indeed; and I should wish for them a day a little longer at least than my day and span. [11]
Are we not whole years short of that interesting period of life when Mr. Balzac says that a man, etc., etc., etc.? [6]
Of course the whole party had to go on short rations at once. [5]
The grey-haired man who, but a short time before, had retained all the vigour of youth, approached the Queen with bowed head and saddened heart. [10]
It was Archibius, who with grave composure bade them follow him, and silently led them around the sanctuary to a side door, through which, a short time before, a litter had passed, accompanied by several attendants. [10]
In short, those who made it a custom to observe such matters felt vaguely a disturbance of some kind. [9]
Like all bachelors who have lived a lonely life, Master Byles Gridley had his habits, which nothing short of some terrestrial convulsion--or perhaps, in his case, some instinct that drove him forth to help somebody in trouble--could possibly derange. [6]
In short, those who had apparently done their utmost to oppose democracy at home were most insistent that we should embark upon a war for democracy across the seas. [9]
The high priest who came forward upheld his subordinates and, after a short dispute, Hermon left the sanctuary with his wish unfulfilled. [10]
To save those who are down-trodden, to help those who labour for the good of the world, to--" she stopped short, for all at once she remembered- remembered whence his money came. [11]
Each wore a white apron, and each made a short speech. [5]
There they stayed, while the blue lines quivered and fell back through the forests on that short winter's afternoon, dragging their wounded from the stagnant waters. [9]
And the moon, which was to cause this destruction, had but a short time before been the ally of his flight and favored him. [10]
The arduous task which she had performed a short time before for her widowed sister had increased the seriousness of her disposition to sullen moroseness. [10]
The short sketch which I give is, therefore, merely to maintain the connection of this discourse. [7]
I've got it where the hair's short, I think; and dontchuknow, they made me learn Latin, too. [5]
Are there pages where he ceases from posing, ceases from admiring the placid flood and flow of his own dilutions, ceases from being artificial, and is for a time, long or short, recognizably sincere and in earnest? [5]
From the time when he set out for France in his fifteenth year, with the exception of a short sojourn in Willoughby seven or eight years after, he lived by his wits and by the strong hand. [4]
He stopped short when he saw them, his hand fell to his sides, and his words died on his lips. [9]
Late that night, when all had separated, Denisov with his short hand patted his favorite, Rostov, on the shoulder. [2]
Though my legs were short, I had both sinew and training, and now I was at one end of the line and now at the other. [9]
The youth's answers were short and confused, but his looks betrayed that he would fain have said quite other things than those which his indocile tongue allowed him to reiterate timidly. [10]
All the flags were sent aloft except half a dozen that were needed to decorate portions of the ship below, and in a short time the vessel assumed a holiday appearance. [5]
Here, too, men were loading camels, which were rarely seen in Egypt, and had been introduced there only a short time before. [10]
How changed we were from what we had been a few short hours before! [5]
He yielded, but went out to learn whether Herr Casper was still in the office, and in a short time returned, exclaiming angrily: "The old Eysvogel seems to be building his nest here! [10]
When Prince Andrew went in the two princesses, who had only met once before for a short time at his wedding, were in each other's arms warmly pressing their lips to whatever place they happened to touch. [2]
Many deemed it well worth a short voyage to see the actors in so strange an adventure and be the first to greet them. [10]
I bore it well enough, though, and said to myself, with secret satisfaction, "In three or four short days, my lads, you will be employing your tongues in a different sort from this--and I shall be there to hear. [5]
Only one short week later he fell again. [5]
It is time we should become a little more Americanized, and instead of feeding the paupers and laborers of England, feed our own; or else in a short time, by continuing our present policy, we shall all be rendered paupers ourselves. [7]
At the Hill we have a force of 8000, under General Sherman, and about an equal force of rebels is a very short distance south, under General Buckner. [7]
And even if we had the disposition to name them, in order to fill up a gap when we were short of ideas and arguments, our magazines would not allow us to do it, because they think that such words sully their pages. [5]
There were two ways of going back to Fairview,--a long and a short way, --and the long way led by Jabe Jenney's farm. [9]
As he sat watching her, he saw that her features were growing easier, and in a short time her deep, even breathing showed that she was asleep. [6]
Whatever the reason was, he furnished her with means, not only for her necessary expenses, but sufficient to afford her many of the elegances which she would be like to want in the fashionable society with which she was for a short time to mingle. [6]
Napoleon's short hair was wet and matted on the forehead, but his face, though puffy and yellow, expressed physical satisfaction. [2]
Seeing that he was up and dressed, and that the room appeared to have been occupied ever since she quitted it on the previous evening, she stopped short, in some embarrassment. [12]
In short, Bijah was the working bee, and the Honorable Heth the ornamental drone. [9]
In short, I was taught law precisely as I had been taught religion,--scriptural infallibility over again,--a static law and a static theology,--a set of concepts that were supposed to be equal to any problems civilization would have to meet until the millennium. [9]
And yet I was sure that I loved Maude; in a surprisingly short period I had become accustomed to her, dependent on her ministrations and the normal, cosy intimacy of our companionship. [9]
In short she was so insubordinate that Herse lost patience and scolded her severely. [10]
And when it was seen that Richter likewise had no protection, but was calmly smoking the little short pipe, with a charred bowl, a hush fell upon all. [9]
A short man was saying something, but when Pierre entered he stopped speaking and went out. [2]

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